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Up at 4am. By the time I was feeling dozy again it was too risky to go back to bed. The alarm might not have gone off. I have a Covid jab appointment at 9.30. I wasted quite some time trying to make my phone to sound an alarm. Just as a backup to my 1970s [?] quartz alarm.
A terrace cottage in a side street in Faaborg.
I managed to set numerous alarm times at intervals but the sound was pathetic and I couldn't seem to change it. The first alarm sounded at 6.15 but the rest were lost when I stopped the first. So basically, about as usable as asking a cockerel to wake me at any specific time. Ironically it has just played an alarm at 8.15.
I lit the stove at 7.45 to be more comfortable after my shower. 64F/17.8C in the room after 20 minutes. It has hardly changed. The stove seems to be losing its ability to be fine adjusted at lower settings. Fortunately there is no shortage of radiant heat. It just consumes more logs than one would like.
Loading more logs at once should provide a slower, longer burn. Than putting the same number of logs on, individually, for the same overall volume. Testing this theory would safely consume some of my empty hours. Though it could be carried out simultaneously with other tasks.
Talking of which. I have quite a shopping list. So I'll leave early and have the jab on the way home.
10.20 Heavy drizzle all morning so far. The first vehicle to catch up with me, as I accelerated away from leaving the drive, overtook me. On double white lines entering a fast, completely blind corner! With may cars speeding in both directions there could have been a frontal impact at insanely high speed! As soon as they had got past me they slowed to only 60km/hr or 40mph. Thereby holding traffic up all the way to the village. The rural speed limit is 50mph or 80kph.
I did my shopping and then went to find the vaccine centre. There were never more than about 10-12 people at a time. Mostly elderly. I opted for both flu and Covid jabs. We had to wait 15 minutes afterwards before leaving. Just in case of a reaction. I filled up with petrol and then took the shopping home. Luckily there was nothing frozen. I found some organic sausages. Just as a change from chicken.
11.30 Returning with my e-bike. It was quite misty out across the fields, with drizzle. Several wind turbines were standing still despite the wind. The bike shop proprietor informed me that the chain and cassette were probably good until next year. He had made an update on the Nyon computer. It had no problem pairing with the phone. After failing as late as yesterday.
I wasted the rest of the day away on YouTube.
Dinner was sausages with fried egg and chips. 😋
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