Notes and links from Thur 11 June

After yesterday’s Wally photo went down well, here’s another one of him exploring under my bench in the shed as I work above. Status: Pottering again, and while tidying the shed I came across the little bilge pump I’d bought some summers back with the intention of pumping bath water onto the lawn (which is annoyingly a few degrees uphill from the house) during a heatwave. I never got it to work, because CFS, but thought I’d give it a go with my new pacing skills. The trick was getting a 12v power supply with enough juice but then I found a car battery charger Fi had bought years ago hiding at the back of a shelf and it worked gangbusters. Now I just needed to wire it all up, which meant getting the soldering iron out, something I haven’t done for a few years. After a couple of hours I had something that worked, so I retired to the sofa and promptly fell asleep for the rest of the day. Focusing is tiring! Fi’s in the bath right now. I’m hoping she remembers not to empty it. Reading:…