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Wednesday 18th 20/-7C [8.45]Overcast, sunshine promised, new overnight snow!?!?! The car is stuck in the drive and now plastered in new snow! 20F/15.6C in the room. I had set the borrowed Zibro oil heater to 16C to hold the room at a comfortable temperature but not hot. Reset to 18C and it is already 64F/18C. It must be the fan which raises the temperature so rapidly. It is rated at 3kw! Fuel consumption is still an unknown.
Up at 8am after several false starts. 5, 6, 7 & 8? Must try harder!
I need to bring in more logs for the stove. Currently getting through two baskets full from the stack outside. Then I have to explore the snow depth in the drive. My back is killing me! Probably all the snow digging.
9.05 Still 64F/17.8C in the room. Stove lit with flakes and scraps of logs.
9.20 Two more baskets of logs are in. Totally breathless again. It looks like at least 5cm or 2" of new snow. My numerous, earlier footprints to the log stack were erased.
10.00 26F/-3C. The snow on the drive wasn't much. I tried for ages to move the car. Then placed a dirt cheap [discarded] car mat under the spinning back wheel. It started forward and I kept it in third gear to the top of the incline. The car is now parked on the level in the main drive. Noe I need to find somewhere to park it where it won't obstruct the drive. In case of a return to the empty properties.
10.30 After lighting the wood stove the temperature has shot up to 70F/20C! Whew?
11.00 Time to go shopping before my list runs out of paper.
Hopefully the sunshine and slightly warmer conditions will help to cut through the remaining snow. I left the car on the main drive safely on the level. Which meant carrying the heavy bags over 100m. Wot a hero! 😇
Both my plywood snow scraper and aluminium snow shovel have vanished.
Dinner was poached eggs on toast.
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