It's been an eventful enough start to May. The weather has suddenly become quite cold and wintry, with lots of gusty winds and heavy rain, generally making me want to hibernate. We've also been having car troubles, Viriamu got the car stuck in the mountains in the middle of the bad weather, the engine was overheating and leaking water, and subsequently it's been quite a challenge to get it towed back down! Fortunately my brother in law works for the local energy company and has access to heavy duty four-wheel drives with winch!!! But it still took four days to get the heavy machinery in and we've had to beg and borrow cars to be able to look after our guests! Between that and the 'fun' we've had trying to install our new hybrid solar freezer (we somewhat foolishly bought it off a salesman who was staying at our guesthouse), the whole thing seems to be more than a little bit cobbled together, we had to wire up the system ourselves, using the slightly dog-eared cables provided, and either the solar panel or the battery still doesn't seem to be working quite right....hey-ho.... and there was me thinking it might be quite a good idea to try to go solar!
Now that the car's fixed I ventured out around town, and picked up the stack of mail awaiting us, in there were a couple of birthday cards, almost a month late, plus a 2010 Christmas card that had made the journey via Guyana (a French territory, albeit on the other side of the world!!!!), I think this tops the parcel sent via the Falklands!!!!
It's been an eventful enough start to May. The weather has suddenly become quite cold and wintry, with lots of gusty winds and heavy rain, generally making me want to hibernate. We've also been having car troubles, Viriamu got the car stuck in the mountains in the middle of the bad weather, the engine was overheating and leaking water, and subsequently it's been quite a challenge to get it towed back down! Fortunately my brother in law works for the local energy company and has access to heavy duty four-wheel drives with winch!!! But it still took four days to get the heavy machinery in and we've had to beg and borrow cars to be able to look after our guests! Between that and the 'fun' we've had trying to install our new hybrid solar freezer (we somewhat foolishly bought it off a salesman who was staying at our guesthouse), the whole thing seems to be more than a little bit cobbled together, we had to wire up the system ourselves, using the slightly dog-eared cables provided, and either the solar panel or the battery still doesn't seem to be working quite right....hey-ho.... and there was me thinking it might be quite a good idea to try to go solar!
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