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Wednesday 23rd 42F/5.6C. [7.40] Thick mist clearing. Bright overcast. Light winds. Temperature peaking at 13C//55F at 16.00. Promise of sunshine this evening. Up at 7am after a very quiet night. I was just thinking I haven't had a nosebleed for quite a while. Then I blew my nose and it started bleeding. I'll try pinching it for five minutes.
7.55. Physio after lunch. I'd like a ride this morning. Not too far. A walk first.
8.30 Back from my walk around the fields on the spray tracks. My trousers were wet up to the knees from the long, wet grass. Lots of bird activity. Though a small warbler lay dead beside the road. It looked unhurt but must have succumbed to the speeding traffic.
9.00 Going for a ride.11.30 53F/11.7C. Returning from a 48km ride. To inspect all the road closures. For the new high speed rail line and the rural expansion of the district heating system. At times it seemed as if every other vehicle was a 7-axle tipper truck.
There were tower cranes everywhere. Hovering over deep excavations, new concrete and blockwork. [Blue is the new, 250km/hr [155mph] high speed rail track. Red, the old railway line. With stations or stops at towns and villages. In the image above.] The new line runs mostly parallel and close to the motorway. Which is shown in black. This has produced some complication. Where bridges and cuttings allow local traffic to cut cross the motorway route.
I saw a red kite circling over the motorway. It really wasn't very warm this morning. My gloved hands were cold and my eyes streaming behind my wraparound sunglasses. The battery dropped from 75% to only 10% charge. The cold conditions? Or is the battery losing its capacity?
13.00 Off to physio class. Returned from physio. I pushed myself too hard again and became dizzy. It affected my sight again. With stars and sparkles. I'll talk to the doctor about it when I see him next. I shopped on the way home. As I had run out of stuff to eat.
Returned from another car journey. To fetch a parcel from a pick-up shop. I had paid for home delivery. After countless years wearing the old ones as slippers. I invested in another pair of Rohde slip-on sandals. The last pair had cracks across the now, highly polished soles. The new ones have a grippy tread I had completely forgotten existed. I have gone from wheelspin slippery to 4WD on chunky tires. Which might help me avoid accidents or even falls.
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