What are you all up to

I decided to take the ice off the small garden pond today - for the birds - and discovered it was a useful exercise in removing the duck week at the same time.  Frozen into the ice I just had to fish out the ice and hey presto most of the duckweed has gone - and the wildlife can get a drink! 

Sunny & bright today at the B/Yd.Used the "Case" digger to spread some 'planings' & grade the road.Very high spring tide today ,a small surge ,but only a few inches over the road,not a complete flood as predicted Held us up for half an hour ,then back to normal.

It's exactly the same at our house too. 

Weather not as good as forecast, but got out and about. Also did the supermarket shop, bought a few extras as making a banana tarte tartin for tea.

Heard from youngest son he has found a house to rent in Manchester, and got his new contract for the new job, it's all going to plan.

We use only TRVs, so no   thermostat to tweak, our system is old but works just fine.

OH decides how warm we have it, and sets the times, I just put on or take off my sweater as necessary!

We do not run heating overnight, but the house is well insulated so we are warm enough.

We have TRV's  on all our radiators, each room is adjusted to how we like it, rooms unused are down low just to keep them aired. The timer is set at this time of year to come on 30 mins before we get up(ish) and goes off at 21.30, no heating required over night as we are in bed. Living room usually at 20c same in bathroom but bedroom, hall  and kitchen about 17c. We tend to walk around in T shirts most of the time. Once it starts to get warmer (Spring) during the day the heating goes off around 10.30, then back on for 2 hrs at lunchtime (if required) them off again until teatime. When it eventually gets hot (well hot for Scotland) it goes off altogether. 

Today has been a lovely day bright and sunny, flipping cold though. We've been busy out at the van now its back home. Boy is it filthy, can't wash it just yet as its still freezing but hope we get a chance before going away.

We've been playing with the new roof satellite all seems to be good and easy to use. Just need to put everything back into it once the temp comes up a bit over the next day or so, no point in putting the cushions and bedding in while its still freezing. I've got boxes of food and bits and pieces sat on the dinning room floor, the spare bedroom has all the cushions and bedding in there, OH has at least managed to get some of the (kit) back into the van, so the attic floor has for the time being stopped moaning  more to do tomorrow.

Tried to reply with a lengthy post, timed out but no message to say so, it just wouldn't post,  copied what I had typed, logged in again, pasted........and something that I had typed several days ago appeared!??

Can't be bothered to do it again.

Ordered floor mats and boot tray, all now arrived, and towbar fitting organised, so I think we have covered everything meantime.

Congratulations on the new car Kjell. Did you order your mats etc on line? If so which company did you use and are you satisfied with them? I'm after some for our new Volvo but there seems to big differences between companies and type of mat. Any help would be gratefully accepted.

We have our heating set at 21 C from 6.30am to 11.30pm. It is set overnight at 15 C. If its going to be cold overnight I increase the overnight temperature although it seldom comes on. During the day we will nudge the temperature down if we are going out and up during the evening. About two years ago we had a Power Flush which has been pretty successful. We have TRV's in most rooms although of course they shouldn't be in the room where you have your thermostat.

David

Yes, we ordered on line, we wanted decent quality so did not go for the cheapest available.

The mats are a good heavy-weight rubber type, £35 for a set of 4, delivered very quickly, from Amazon , seller was  Travall UK

The boot tray we splashed out on as it will get a lot of wear, that was from  The Roof Box Company, £61.50 + carriage £5.50. Also delivered within a couple of days.  It has the raised edges to contain spillages.  Flat mats are cheaper.

We could not find a company that could provide both the boot tray and the floor mats.

Remains to see how they will all wear, but the quality seems good and everything fitted exactly, so we are pleased so far.

VW offered carpet mats for £25,rubber trays for a lot more, so we decided to source our own.  When we went to pick up the car we found they had fitted carpet mats for free, after decling to provide any!

They are now packed away, maybe we could sell them!