Regular swimming and irregular electricity

Miekie and Pieter have swimming lessons at Orcas Swim School at Southdowns College on Mondays and Wednesdays. They've made fantastic progress since starting there. Here's a short video of their swimming classes. Miekie is in the group in the far side of the pool and Pieter is in the near side group. Both are wearing blue swimming caps.

As I'm trying to spend as much time as I can working from home, Eskom's load shedding can be a disruption. So rather than going to sit and work (and drink coffee) at our local Mugg and Bean (which has generator-provided power) every time the power goes off, I retrieved my spare 100 Ah Land Rover battery from the garage and bought a 300 W inverter. My battery charger took about three days to charge the battery but now it is sufficient to power my laptop charger, our modem and router, my second display and something else, for example a fan, for at hours on end. So at I can continue working during load shedding!

The guts of the setup next to my desk: the battery in the black box, the battery charger in front of it and the inverter to the left

Close-up of the inverter with an adapter to which I connect a multi-plug and then all my power-hungry devices

Slightly tidier with the battery box lid on

I'm happy to say that it works very well!