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layout: ../../layouts/LayoutMdx.astro
title: Weeks 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 & 27
date: 2021-09-18
dir: summer
image: kayak
description: we take a break
---

import { generateImageHyrdationFunction } from "../../utils";
import Cards from "@components/Cards.astro";
import Solocard from "@components/Solocard.astro";
import NextPrev from "@components/NextPrev.astro";
import Progress from "@components/Progress.astro";
import YTVideo from "@components/YTVideo.astro";
export const s = generateImageHyrdationFunction("summer");

Look at that! So many weeks! I didn't even know that summer was this long!

We must have got so much stuff done

...

so

much

stuff

...

To the surprise of no-one, we actually didn't get much stuff done at all over the summer. Instead we took a break from doing stuff round the house because we know that before long we'd be living in a building site again.

One of the things that we didn't get round to doing was writing this post, so it's just going to be a ☀ summer-y ☀ of things that we can remember.

## Unpacking

<Progress value={64} max={72} />

What's this?! We've gone backwards?!

Yep, some of our friends are moving down to the Bristol area and we're storing some of their extraneous crap to aid with selling their house. They were very apologetic about bringing so much of their stuff here, but this house has plenty of space to store boxes.

They also brought three squeezeboxes to store and I can't decide whether that's to improve the value of their house or something to placate us...

## The Heat

When moving here I really didn't think that we'd have any issues with the house being too warm. I was pretty convinced that we'd need to stock up on jumpers, quilt some more quilts, and burn all the spare cardboard to keep us alive. Instead we've found that having a tall house with a south-facing wall means that we absorb a lot of heat, and that heat travels up the house. The loft is very well insulated which means that our top floor gets very warm indeed. Normally we can rely on a good through-draft to keep us cool, but during the <span class="badge bg-warning text-dark">⚠ amber extreme heat warning ⚠</span> it got a bit unbearable in our office. Fortunately our air conditioner works and we just had to spend a few days with the curtains drawn.

Our thick wooden curtains helped a lot as well in the rest of the house.

## Not Enjoying Ourselves

Unfortunately, during this time Nikki caught Covid and had to spend a miserable time isolating for a few weeks. She's fully recovered now, but we had to cancel on a camping trip that our friends had organised. 😥

We really appreciated the flowers and gifts that people sent. Thank you very much! ❤

<Cards
  images={[
    { title: "Desperate to get outside", src: s("outside") },
    { title: "With them in spirit 🔥", src: s("camping") },
  ]}
/>

## Enjoying Ourselves

Having got that over with we thought we'd better carry on with having some fun.

This isn't really house news - it's more of an excuse as to why there isn't much house news 😄

<Cards
  images={[
    { title: "Going on a bike ride", src: s("bikeride") },
    { title: "Rambling round the countryside", src: s("signpost") },
    { title: "Enjoying our new kayak", src: s("kayak") },
    { title: "Visiting Dyrham Park", src: s("dyrham") },
    {
      title: "The Red Arrows at Abingdon Air Show",
      src: s("red_arrows", "png"),
    },
    {
      title: "Beaulieu Motor Mueseum (our first live gig since You Know What)",
      src: s("car"),
    },
    { title: "Entertaining guests", src: s("naughtyGuest") },
    { title: "Feasting on garden produce", src: s("garden_produce") },
    { title: "Testing our projection room", src: s("bigscreen") },
  ]}
/>

## State of Harrow

The selling of Harrow continues. We're on buyer number three. This one made an offer already knowing about the subsidence so we're feeling pretty good. We're now back into the tedium of searches and enquiries.

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  images={[
    {
      title: "Cutting the grass prior to viewings",
      src: s("harrow_grass"),
    },
    {
      title: "Our subsidence could be worse it seems",
      src: s("subsidence"),
    },
  ]}
/>

## Nozzy House News

To justify this page I'll leave you with the only bit of home improvement that we actually did over the summer

<Solocard title="We put up our coat rack" src={s("shelf")} />

Tune in next time for some actual work 😄

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