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Saturday 15th 61F/16C [6.40] A bright sunny day with some cloud but cooler. Peaking around 23C today but falling below 20C for the next week. A northwesterly breeze. There is a drought warning and fire risk for the whole country. A comfortable 23C/73F in the room. 17C/63F om the greenhouse.
Up at 6.00 after an unusually quiet night.
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A picture from yesterday. A huge bulldozer is spreading and compacting wet sand on the new rail track bed. Later to be covered in the typical, large gravel ballast.
The height of the embankments, on either side, show how much the ground had to be lowered here. Elsewhere the track is perched up high. On top of similarly huge embankments. Denmark cannot boast high altitudes but is rarely, truly flat here on the central island of Fyn.
22F/72C in the room. 22C/72F in the greenhouse.
Up at 7.45 after deciding 5.45 was just silly.
The water has been brown all day. It went off yesterday. Presumably a digger breaking the pipework. I passed a digger beside the road in the village yesterday on my ride.
16.00 83F/28C. It feels like an oven outside! 33C/92F in the fully open greenhouse.
I almost wasted the day. Then decided to start tidying. Lots of tools to put away from assorted jobs.
Then I trimmed back the ragged edge of the new glazed door reveal. The carpenter had cut it back indoors to make room for the frame. Though not with an eye to making good afterwards. I used the vibrating multi-tool with a wide blade. To cut through the ragged plasterboard and the 50mm of insulating foam.
The mess left behind the supposedly decorative surface was hideous! Gaping holes and handfuls of cement. Just thrown in behind the insulation. Typical of the standard, or rather lack thereof. Shown in the 1970s modernization of the hovel.
Dinner was tuna on the smaller, wholemeal bread rolls. Which I have for lunch every day. These are firmer and chewier than the larger, softer rolls. Which I have with marmalade morning and afternoon with tea or coffee. I thought the bigger rolls exposed the taste and texture of the tuna rather better. Still, it was certainly worth a trial.
It was quite dark when a giant baler hove into view on the prairie to the north. Blazing all over with lights. As it turned to disappear behind intervening trees.
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Up at 7-15 after a quiet night.
A good day for a ride? I should be tidying for the coming invasion. Two ladies are to visit for a couple of days.
The water went off for about 20 minutes. Though I couldn't be certain when it went off.
11.00 Going for a ride.
15.20 78F/26C. Back from a 67km ride. Hot and tired.
I had a nap.
Dinner was a heap of salad. I had managed to flatten the battery of my phone. So no photographic evidence. Fortunately the phone has recovered from a presumed 0% charge. Perhaps it was the heat in the back pocket of my cycling jersey?
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