07h00 – A wakened by a terrific thunderstorm, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, went on for about 1 hour, P slept through it.
09h00 – Coming home from the Historic Tour of Joingy last night we were stopped, as were all motorists, in a breathalyser check. Pauline hardly drinks at all and in fact she had had no alcohol at all that day, so it was blow in the bag ‘le ballon‘ and we were waved on and wished goodnight. I had taken a few pictures and did some sound recordings on the Zoom H2, a nice little device at a a reasonable price.
11h30 – Off to Béon to get the new cooker working. I have a solution to the problem of not big enough cable. There are two individual sockets behind the cooker so I decided to wire the cables in parallel to one socket and one trip, thus giving us a nominal 32 a capacity. All went well apart from one cable being a bit short and a joint had to be made in the consumer unit all for the lack of about 2″ of cable. It all worked when connected to a 20A trip so I turned everything on and the main trip tripped out. It turns out the main trip is rated at 30A maxn so a 32A trip for the individual cooker circuit is uneccessary so I left it with a 20. New cooker, new washing machine and a potential electric kettle then occasional plunges into darkness could be a new feature at The Cottage.
17h00 – Vero came round and her and P went off to a clarinet concert at La Bussiere, near Gien. I tinkered around some more with Kubuntu Linux on an old PC now renamed Albert.
