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Chris Froome has had a serious accident during training and will
be off the bike for quite a long time. No repeat win of the Tour de
France will be possible this year. It just goes to show the very real
dangers involved in all forms of cycling. Crashes occur far too often in
both competition and training as well as during normal, everyday cycling. Real people
make very poor, crash test dummies. Let's not forget this. We often take it completely for granted that every rider will return unscathed. Get well soon, Chris.
Friday 14th 62F, very cloudy and a bit breezy. Warm with sunny
periods promised. It reached a scorching 66F in searing sunshine on my
brisk walk to the lanes. [again] The Head Gardener accused me of
counter-revolutionary activities for returning too soon for morning
coffee. It's not my fault there were no hares, nor birds of prey to
delay me. She has lost her prized, vintage, metal, flour scoop. Which is Her only tool of choice for shoveling seed compost from the endless 50kg bags to the next flower pot on Her continuous production line. It's not as if it is a family heirloom but you can really feel the tension in the air. Like a storm brewing? Wish me luck!
Tomorrow is set for a deluge but it arrived early. With rolling thunder in the afternoon around 5.00pm. Cars were overturned by a tornado in southern Denmark! A very rare occurrence here and perhaps an omen of worse to come!
Saturday 15th
61F, massive thunderstorms and torrential rain are heading north from
Germany. We already have thunder and cloudbursts here. So definitely no
walk without a full frogman's outfit and I am a poor swimmer anyway.An afternoon walk between heavy showers. A highly variable, gusty wind matched the mood of the leaden sky. Amazingly the crops seemed completely untouched. Probably the result of using stalk shortening, plant technology. It used to be completely normal to see huge, flattened areas on the fields after such bad weather.
The weather experts were shocked at the sheer number of lightning strikes over eastern Denmark. [6000!]
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