The Persistence Of Spiders, And Me!

The Blipfoto shows the "hand hole" to the crypt, tool room, and energy room.

If you look closely you will see a spider has spun a web over the "hand hole". 

The spider creates this web every day, and nothing ever seems to be caught.

I know this because every day, I visit the crypt, tool room and energy room, usually to read the electricity consumption of each heat pump. A "nerdy" task to do, but the performance of the heat pumps is of great importance.

We have four separate meters. No "smart meters" can emulate this.

Back to the spider. When the door is unlocked and opened, the web is destroyed.

And the "hand hole"?  It is there to allow the red extension electricity cable to be passed through and also allow the door to be locked.

The original purpose was to allow the outlet of an emergency flood pump to be led up to the ground level. We once had a flood after a particularly bad rain storm and water was pouring into the crypt.

The emergency pump ran for three days  before the water was cleared; a day longer than the storm.

After that a permanent flood pump was installed complete with   an underground outlet drain. Since then, no more floods. I do check that it is working on a regular basis.

However, the original emergency pump and hose stand ready to "spring" into action should the main pump fail. And yes, there is also a standby emergency pump, just in case.......

Flooding of the house is virtually an impossibility, as any water cannot pool and reach the height required.

The water comes from a neighbouring field and it usually flows out of the gates. However, I have a "cunning plan" in mind to divert that runoff.

Talking of cunning plans, our proposal for the church mentioned on Friday has been approved by the client.

The "Zoom" encounter was a complete failure, so we had a face mask to face mask meeting at a distance of some 10 metres apart.

Client approval granted and he drove home with paper prints rather than staring at a PDF file on his 4 year old iPhone.

Finally, I have discovered where the red squirrel resides. Apparently, they like to have two or three to fool the creatures who fancy a red squirrel for lunch.

The extra photo is of our building taken through the branches of the Scots Pine.