Herefordshire Week 346: Tuesday 11 – Monday 17 August 2026

Heatwave No. 5. A funeral. Storage Battery installed. Longtown Show. Project Fill Skip. A sunny afternoon at Longtown & District Show Gym on Tuesday then into Hereford for a hot, hot shop at Tesco’s and Lidl. And to pop into Belmont Library. Over to Bedford and back for a funeral on Wednesday, notable for it being my first time flying solo with public EV chargers. Overall OK – BP Pulse was underwhelming: 7kW, 2h 10 mins charging, 1.791kWh delivered, at least it was only 65p/kW. Gridserve at Moto Rugby was expensive 92p/kW but effective: 360kW max, approx 45 mins charging, 42 kWh delivered. I was driving home while the eclipse took place. Cloud over the sun / moon, and as I neared home the smoke from Llangynidr (I think) was turning the horizon an eerie purply orange colour. M50 was closed due to smoke from a field fire. Hot. Up early on Thursday – woken up by the double doorbell ring that’s the sign that the electricity is back on after a power cut. We continued to have very, very…