21st September 2019 Ya missed me!

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Saturday 21st already, 53-64F, clear start, rapidly becoming cloudy. We have been promised a warm day. My walk to the lanes was against only light traffic. I survived. So I must have won this match.

This lot went over while nattering away to themselves. What are they saying? "Left a bit. Right a bit. That's fine!" There's bound to be one who constantly complains about their arms being tired.

A quiet, sunny day but with no excuse for a ride.


Sunday 22nd 48-70F, a bright start with thin, low mist hanging over the bare earth of newly sewn fields. There is a national fog warning with 22C/72F forecast. It never reached the forecast temperatures yesterday but was very pleasant. The mist has been replaced by a single pheasant glowing brightly red in the warm, early sunshine. I walked to the village and back again.

Two women drivers nearly ended my days. The first took the inside line on rails on a blind corner. With me walking right on the apex she never reacted. Not one iota of expression in her face. Nor sign of  movement on the steering wheel as I withdrew to the 45 degree, concrete verge blocks.

The other driver had already lost control on the exit of the corner due to daydreaming or poor driving skills. She reacted to my presence on the following straight, but ridiculously violently! Which took her car way out across the double white lines without good reason. Lets be generous and call her a drunk driver.

My weak attempt at humour regarding the new megadatacentres in Denmark was in unexpectedly poor taste. The Green Energy for the Odense megadatacentre will come from Norway [not Denmark.] The cost to the Danish taxpayer will be in the region of 400 million kroner. That's £47 million pounds! Or, $59 million US dollars!

Good to be Green? You'd think the online advertising companies would dip into their trillions of tax-free profits, wouldn't you? It seems Denmark is a natural choice for data-centres. With it being at the geographical top of mainland Europe. While still being lined up with all the potential customers for advertising further east.

42% of Americans think they would still have to buy gas if they owned an electric car. [Forbes.]

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