20.05.2026

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  Wednesday 20th 53F/12C {7.00] Overcast with a day of rain forecast.

 Up at 6.30 after a difficult night. I was awake for some of the time. Rehearsing my Danish to the bus drivers. I have traveled on buses an average of once in two years and then only recently. 

I very rarely use cash. So almost never have the right fare available. There is a fair bit of negativity towards using cash. It's all phone apps, for almost everything and has been for years. 

 I need to be on the bus into the village just before 8am. Then change to the bus to Odense to the bottom of the village. There is doubtful overlap between the bus stops.  

In fact I was far too early at the hospital. At least I enjoyed a decent walk between the bus stop and hospital entrance. Then just had to sit and wait.     

 They used a balloon to inflate the narrowed artery. The stent did't take. So I was wheeled to a small ward. With a mandatory 4 hours of monitoring.

 Then I had a recurrance of chest pain. The nurse suggested they might keep me in overnight. They will not let me go home if I am in any pain. Which is potentially boring but there we are.

 They have decided to move me to a ward overnight. To keep an eye on me.

 I am high up with a window view. Pictures tomorrow. Dinner was roast beef with potatoes, veg and brown sauce. The Danish version of gravy.

 I am blogging from my phone.

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19.05.2026 + One.

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  Tuesday 19th 53F/12C [8.25] Bright overcast. A supposedly damp start. Brighter this afternoon. 68F/20C in the room thanks to the heat pump. I probably don't need it. 58F in the greenhouse.

 Up at 7.20 after several earlier failures to take off. More weird, high realistic dreams. My back was painful when I finally got up.

 I am expecting my visitor later. I will have to drive into the village to collect her from the bus stop. Meanwhile I must tidy. 

 9.45 Back from my walk. Still dry but overcast. The neighbour's cat was sitting in the drive. Just as I approached a tabby dashed out of the hedge. They both rapidly disappeared into the distance. No guard dog today. My walk was uninterrupted. The small bushes planted along the drive embankment are white lilac. They have all just come into flower.

 11.20 My visitor is on the train leaving Kbh. 

 I have been siphoning the gravel in the aquarium. Enough to exchange 50% of the water. Refilled with the hose spray head straight from the cold tap. To maximize oxygenation. I also removed as much of the thread algae as possible. 

 12.00 Vacuumed the ground floor. Hot and breathless.

 12.05 Sunshine. Briefly. 

 I fetched my visitor and returned for lunch. Later we went back to the village to do some minor shopping. 

 I have assembled an overnight bag. Should it be needed following tomorrow's procedure. 

 Dinner was mashed potatoes, sausage and mushrooms. With a pleasant and fruity, Italian red wine. 

 

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18.05.2026 Busy-busy!

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   Monday 18th 53F/12C [8.00] Bright overcast with sunny periods. Overnight rain starting this evening. 66F/49C in the room with the heat pump off overnight. Greenhouse 57F/14C.

 Up at 7.10 after an average night. Dozing and weird, realistic dreams. 

 My ears are to be drain-rodded at 10am in town. I'll do some shopping while I am there. I have to expand my usual larder for a visitor. Who is coming to keep an eye on me after the hospital procedure. Plus a bit of gentle nagging about the untidiness of the place. 

 11.30 Sunny but windy again. I drove into town to have my ears scraped. A phone call half way there from the hospital. No recent blood tests! Naughty boy! 

 Then onto the bank to get some cash for the bus fares to the hospital. Then I drove straight to my doctor's surgery to have a blood test done. Onto the shops to get some change for the bus fares from the notes the bank machine gave me. Then I did a load of shopping to cater for my visitor. Am I having fun yet?

 The rest of the day was wasted on YouTube. 

 Dinner was a salmon pasty and chips. 

 

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