14.11.2024 Ride to Fåborg.

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  Thursday 14th 43F/6C [6.45] A sunny day is promised. Northwesterly wind falling slowly. Peaking at 9C/48F after lunch.

 An unusually huge and long, thatched and timber framed [bindingsværk] barn at Østrupgård [farm] above Fåborg. The building extends for a considerable distance along the lane. Such buildings have little utility in modern farming. Where vast machines rapidly cultivate enormous fields. Most modern farms have vast steel barns to house these costly machines. 

 Østrupgaard (Sydfyn) Website in Danish.

  Up at 6am. I was woken by one of the goldfish gobbling the water surface. It sounds like mice in the ceiling! It's not a lack of oxygen. It's an irritating habit. The daft thing constantly imagines food is floating there. In the light or the dark!

 I had an email from the museum volunteers. Urging me to visit them.

 Physio exercise class this morning. I ought to take advantage of the sunshine and go for a ride afterwards. 

 10.30 Back from physio. I don't have many more sessions left. I am enjoying morning coffee as I decide where I want to go for a ride.

 It is already 11.15.  So I ought to take lunch with me. I will ride to Fåborg to look in the charity shops for furniture.

 11.45 Ready or not!

 16.00 Returned from a 74km ride. The sun was just setting on the last leg. I mainly kept to the narrow, rural lanes. Lots of amazing hills around Håstrup! I saw three kestrels and two buzzards. The latter were soaring above a copse and calling. I avoided several pheasants wandering in the road.

 I took my cheese and honey rolls for lunch. So I didn't need to eat the sub-micro Corny bars. It was very pleasant eating them on a park bench by the water. I threw a few bits of crust to an immature, black headed gull. Mostly because it was small and didn't shriek at me.

 I ran the battery down to minimum allowable charge again. Stopped in the last lay-bye before home to fit the second battery. Just to avoid having to climb the last few hills without power. The saddle wasn't too bad again. Just a bit of an ache towards the end.

 16.45 Another amazing sunset! Though it was lying about tomorrow. Because the forecast is grey again. Snow is possible next week!

 Dinner was chicken, mushrooms, tomatoes and chips. 

 22.30 The bright, full moon is almost overhead. Lighting up the greenhouse. The room has reached 67F/19.4C after four hours of the stove burning.

 

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