Windows done, James is making the most of the luxury scaffolding to practice his lime mortar pointing skills. Last week was too cold, then it was too wet, and now, apparently it may be too warm and dry, in which case I'm not sure quite which day of the year would actually be OK for this temperamental task! Anyway, he has no choice, as we can only keep the scaffolding up a bit longer. At least, with all this good weather, he can do some Blue Skies Thinking while he is up there...
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The Blue Sky is the limit.
Don't forget to check the lightning rods while you're up there.
If there is a lightning rod, it's out of reach for us up what remains of the belfry. We have a fair few higher trees around and even the hillside behind goes steeply up above the house, so we probably aren't at great risk.
Well, if you'd had a lightning rod, you'd have had a big cable descending from that to a ground rod. Assuming there's no melted remains of such a thing, you probably haven't had one.
That Ben Franklin guy came long after your place was built, I expect. And besides, he got the shape wrong ...
So, stay offline and out of the shower during thunderstorms.
Once -- during a North Carolina thunderstorm -- my family had an old wired dial phone suddenly flash bright electric blue and leap screaming off its shelf to crash smoking in the middle of the room when it reached the end of its tether. Then the phone line melted.
Lightning is relatively rare here compared to much of the USA (and Japan, for that matter). Perhaps because it's not hot enough most of the time. We don't often get the big convective thunderstorms that are a daily occurrence in other places.
The only time I noticed lightning strike the airplane I was in was on a flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh.
> it's not hot enough most of the time.
Yet.
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