Air conditioner arrived on Wednesday. I’ve decided that my bedroom is the best place for it … it’s the room that gets direct sun for most of the day (so gets very hot), and is where I tend to retreat if I’m starting to feel a need to lie down or to take a nap.
A quarter of an hour at a time is as much – probably slightly more – than I can actually manage, as I’m still pretty unwell. Any kind of effort – even a ten-minute stroll to the Post Office and back – brings me out in a breathless sweat lasting an hour or so. And I don’t even think about doing anything between about 1230 and 2000h. So it’s taken a couple of days to get the beast upstairs and set up sensibly. I’m pretty pleased with it – running yesterday afternoon at “siesta time” it certainly made a difference. A bit of tweaking this morning to make the whole thing less obtrusive, though the day is milder and I may not need to actually run the a/c.
Photo taken about 1030, when the sun is just starting to hit the bedroom window. It will stay until around 2000h this evening! I’m pleased that the vent hose manages to hide behind the curtain (as seen from the bedroom),and be rather disguised by it as seen from outside.
