9 Jul 2025

9.07.2025

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 Wednesday 9th 56F/13.3C [7.00] Overcast. The forecast was mostly sunshine. Though with the risk of thundery showers from the north.

 Up at 6am after a fairly quiet night.

 I have plans to ride back to a builder's merchant some ten miles [16km] away. I drove there yesterday but  must return to buy more O-rings in a smaller size. 

 9.40 I returned from my 31km ride empty handed. They had no O-rings in the size I needed. The ride there was cold and into the headwind. I came back by another way. Mostly a crosswind and then a tailwind at the end. I left at 8.05 and it only became sunny at 8.15. I was pushing myself on way there. More of a dawdle on the way back. It was hilly going both ways. Though not a problem on the e-bike. I rarely bother with lower gears thanks to the motor assistance available.

 My search for a tool in the shed quickly became a marathon tidying effort. A dozen electric clock dials can go to the local flea market. The heap of cardboard boxes and junk will go to the recycling yard. 

 14.50 69F/21C. Hot and humid. Clocks delivered. Off to the recycling yard. I had to clear the trailer of fine gravel first. Piled beside the pond in the greenhouse. To close off the toothy gaps around the edges.

 15.40 Back from the recycling yard. A whole trailer full. Just from the shed.

   

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8 Jul 2025

8.07.2025 Man about town.

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  8th July 56F/13.3C [6.50]  Rain with scattered showers promised. Possibly with thunder.

 Up at 6am after a fairly quiet night.

The tomato plants are doing well in the warm greenhouse.

 8.30 Back from a half hour walk. Lots of cloud but dry. Quite a gentle wind. The warblers were still singing away in the roadside trees. A black kite, with a split and damaged tail, moved away. 

 I feel the need to go somewhere. 

 12.30 Returning from a drive around the builder's merchants. I was looking for o-rings. Fortunately I found a hoard at a rural builder's merchants. The only one left. Not stripped down to bubble packs and rows of power tools. An amazing resource. One which I have called on many times over the years. It has rained lightly, on and off, all morning.

 19.00 62F/16.7C. Back from the city. It was warm and sunny in Odense. I found what I was looking for. Raining only in the village. Dry roads when I left. Lots of pretty sports cars in Odense. Hundreds of Teslas too. I was following a Porsche when an Aston Martin went the other way. While a Mercedes SL500 was in the inside lane. 

 A teenager on a fat bike. With a huge Wolt pack on his back. Went through at least four red lights. While I was trickling along between lights in the car. The real cyclists all held back to obey the lights. He either didn't have a clue or didn't care. No hesitation whatsoever.

 As it was so late for dinner I made something easy. Fish fingers and chips. Then forgot to take a picture! 

  

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7 Jul 2025

7.07.2025 On a roll.

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  Monday 7th 56F/13.3C[7.00] Bright, when the forecast says rain. It's all happening just to the east. As a huge area of rain moves towards the NE. It looks more like sunny periods than the forecast showers. 

 Up at 6.30 after an over-active night.       

 7.40  Time for my walk. 

 8.20 60F/15.6C. Back from a walk to the lanes under grey, broken skies. Only the gentlest of breezes once I was away from the tall, roadside hedges. Huge clouds were dragging their dark and ragged underskirts off to the north. The warblers were still singing away. A large tabby cat strolled past at the junction to the lanes. I don't  remember ever seeing a cat just there. The traffic was unusually light for a Monday. The annual invasion of billions of slugs was visible every few yards. Splattered on the asphalt. 

 I intend to walk back and clean the mirror opposite the end of the drive. It is plastic and attracts dew and dirt. Unlike the official glass one above. The kommune [council] wouldn't put up two safety mirrors. To protect those exiting the drive on a fast, blind corner. Most of the traffic is speeding and not expecting a vehicle to suddenly appear, from nowhere, in their path. 

  Of course I didn't take my cleaning trip. I was too taken up with more projects at home.

 Dinner was an experiment. It should have been toast but I made chicken and mushroom rolls instead. Which required a degree of juggling to consume but were otherwise fine. I let things cool on a plate. Before adding the contents of the frying pan to the rolls. I think I could enjoy toasted cheese on open, toasted rolls.


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