5.02.2026

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  Thursday 5th 28F/-2C [9.15]  Overcast but slightly less windy. 58F/14C in the room. Snow expected after lunch.

 Up at 8.10 after a typically disturbed night. Feeling dizzy and slightly nauseous. Struggling to see the computer screen clearly. My seeing is fuzzy.

 10.00 60F/ 15.6C. Stove lit. Just sitting with my eyes closed and hoping my breakfast stays down. 

 12.00 62F/16.7C. I dozed for an hour in an arm chair. Which was uncomfortable. Then for another hour in bed. Until I had a strange dream. About receiving a phone call from a builder in Danish. So that I had to get up to put my hearing aids in. 

 I have a slightly upset stomach but haven't been sick. No idea what might have caused it. I am always so careful about hygiene and thoroughly cooking everything. It was lucky that I managed to light the stove with beech flakes and fire lighters. 

 16.30 62F/16.7C. I have spent the day sitting and watching YT videos. Still dizzy. I've had nothing to eat or drink until now. I am going to have a cup of tea and a digestive biscuit. A lack of fluids is poor behavior.

 It has ben snowing for some time. Very fine, like frozen rain. It is blowing off the shed roofs and traveling horizontally. I doubt there is more than a centimeter or two lying on the ground so far. The DMI shows the snow clouds at my location are clearing northwards. While reforming on the rear skirts. A wide, yet stable band of sleet lies over the most southern parts of Denmark. With more snow over Germany to the south. While TV2 shows our area as lying within the range of a snowstorm. Due to the snowfall and high winds. The latter are expected to reduce overnight.

 Some trains, buses and public transport has been closed down in anticipation of heavy snowfall and icy roads. Schools are closed too. Pictures of the frozen sea are appearing in the media. Including within Copenhagen. The ice on many lakes and ponds is now considered safe for public access. Thanks to increased thickness from continuous sub zero temperatures.  

 The large whale, which stranded and died on the cost of Denmark, at Albæk. Died due to a fishing net stuck in its throat. The poor thing had slowly starved to death! TV2 showed a specialist vet who carried out the autopsy. With his arms literally full of the 12kg of net. The video audio is in Danish.

https://tv2.dk/reel/2026-02-05-kaskelothval-doede-af-sult---fiskenet-blokerede-spiseroer-6388807084112  

The link simplified in English: TV2. The kaskelot [sperm] whale died of hunger. A discarded fishing net had blocked its throat.

 20.00 63F/17C It is still snowing. I had another cup of tea. Still no appetite. I think I'll  have a coffee with added milk. Riveting stuff, eh? 

 

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4.02.2026 Stocking up for the snowstorm!

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  Wednesday 4th 28F/-2C [9.00] Heavily overcast after a clear night with a high moon. A grey, windy day with possible snow showers this afternoon. Blowing to 18m/s from the east. [~40mph] Snow is expected over the next three days. 59F/15C i the room. The stove wouldn't light from the warm bed of ash. The kindling glowed but no flames.

 Up at 7.50 after an odd night. Got up four times until 3am in bright moonlight and then slept for hours. I had better light the stove properly. 

 I need to shop in case I get snowed in.

 10.00 63F/17C in the room. Back from a 20 minute walk along the road. The wind was roaring and cutting my face into icy rashers. The hedge slasher had been along. Perfect timing, to ensure a lot of twigs are blown out onto the asphalt. On both sides of the road! The usual, wind blocking hedge was worthless today. The wind completely ignored it. I was being buffeted as I walked in both directions. No, not simultaneously. There are limits to my legendary abilities. 

 12.00 64F/17.8C in the room. Back from the village supermarket. Three bulging carrier bags full as I stocked up for the coming snowstorm. Up to 30cm could accumulate over several days. We were south of the threatened snowstorm but are now well within it. 

20.00 63F/17C. Still no new snow. Yet another day spent on YouTube and feeding the stove. Dinner was a salmon pasty, with organic peas, Fettuccine pasta and tinned organic tomatoes. I should have used a whole tin of tomatoes. Strained to reduce the water content. I washed up while it cooked. I have more to do.

 

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3.02.2026 Democracy for sale! Dirt cheap!

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  Tuesday 3rd 26F/-3.3C. Cloudy start becoming sunny later. Even more windy from the east. 10ms base. Gusting to 20m/s. 45mph! That's the equivalent of 6F/-14C with wind chill. 59F/15C in the room. 38F/3.3C in the greenhouse. 

 No thin logs or kindling to light the fire until I raid the trailer. Which is currently at the far end of the carport. Trapped behind the car. Without any lighting other than a hand held torch. I need a [much] better storage system! Or the motivation to empty the trailer before it becomes so critical. It is supposed to snow again tomorrow. So all the remaining firewood needs to be in the [lean-to] greenhouse! 

 Up at 6am after what felt like hours of wakefulness. My back hurts from yesterday's repeated struggles with the heavy mattress! 

 7.30 I sprinkled the still hot ashes in the stove. With the last of the small flakes, rubbish wood and bark in the bottoms of the log baskets. Then laid the smallest, but still oversized log on top. Five minutes later it ignited and the log is burning well! It needs maximum airflow to keep it going. I searched for more logs in the greenhouse and have enough for this morning. All larger than I would normally burn. 

 Now it is light enough outside I can see the trees and hedges are all rocking in the wind. It is roaring around the greenhouse. Which is unfortunate. Because the eastern door is the one I need for emptying the trailer. The wind continues tomorrow as well. Only slightly reduced from today's unpleasantness but with the added burden of snow. I think the best thing to do is to use the wheelbarrow as usual. To dump loads of logs onto the greenhouse floor. Get as much in as possible without leaving the doors open. I can fill a basket with some flakes for kindling.

 08.30 Still only 59F/15C in the room. Job done. Three well filled wheelbarrows full of mixed logs into the greenhouse. One basket stuffed with beech flakes for kindling. Cold and rather breathless. I fetched the recycling bins from the end of the drive while was out there. Both had blown over after being emptied. 

 The temporary roof covering on the stripped, thatch house is coming apart. It is being ripped wide open by the wind. The house was abandoned again months ago. With tons of debris, bathroom fittings and rubble from the house piled untidily, outside the house on the drive. 

 No visit to my friend today. No walk either.

 The day passed peacefully on YouTube. Where I learned that a brutal, child rapist is still treating the world as his own, personal toy. Evil can only exist. When other, evil men do nothing. Or praise the perp. To ensure their own gravy trains do not derail. Democracy is just another currency in many parts of the world. To be bought and sold to the highest bidder. 

 19.30 64F/17.8C in the room. Dinner was my very first, cheese omelette. It was excellent!

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