27.11.2024 New physio class confirmed.

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  Wednesday 27th 39F/4C [7.30] A mixed but mostly dry but windy day is promised. Followed by rain from 17.00. Potentially heavy and prolonged overnight. The eastern sky looks clear with a hint of orange.

 Up at 6.15 after a disturbed night. I blame the coffee at 8pm but he will never learn. My right eye remains partially bloodshot. I have been bathing it with cold water using the eye bath. With little or no, observable effect. It feels dry at times. I was dreaming about waiting to start new physio heart rehab classes.

 Just me, showing off my halo in a selfie.

 I'd like to have a ride today. With several villages as potential goals. I have blood tests in the village after lunch. With regards to the physio class, in another village, I have emailed them. Rather than just turn up without an appointment.  

 9.00 Time for a walk? The sky looks clear with no wind. The sun is shining but blocked by the local houses.

 9.45 Returned from a walk to the lanes. The roads were wet. It was cool enough to need hands in pockets. No discernible wind but the local turbines were turning briskly. A few gulls were standing nervously out on the fields but there was little else of note. 

 The nice neighbour's chickens all ran towards me as I paused at their boundary fence. I was not carrying anything edible. So they were inevitably to be disappointed. One of their goats cries pitifully every time it sees me. I don't carry goat fodder either. It's hard enough just to keep the goldfish satiated. The neighbour's black and white cat made a poor pretense of invisibility. By flattening itself on the grass at a mere two meters away. There's hours of fun to be had enjoying the wildlife in these here parts.

 10.30 As it has settled on a sunny morning I shall have a ride. I have to be back by lunch time. So no longer ride today. Strictly a one battery tour. I'll just potter up to the next village to do some shopping. The cold air might stop my nose from bleeding. It has just started again.

 12.45 42F/5.6C Returned fully laden from a 23km shopping ride. Delightful, rural detours added to the distance. My nose ran in the cold rather than bled. It was sunny until 12.00 and then clouded over. Riding home was much colder and into a headwind. I found a Philips beard trimming, rechargeable razor in a charity shop. My last trimmer came from a similar source. It lasted for years before the distance setting combs cracked and became useless.

 13.15 Only 63F/17C in the room. So I have lit the stove. It should keep going while I am at the doctors. I have paid for the spring quarter of 13 exercise classes at the new venue. Jan to May. 

 I rode to the village to have my blood tested. Adding a few more km to make it 36km today. Thick mist was rolling down the hill from the forest. 

 I mentioned my daily nose bleeds and bloodshot eye to the nurse. They are squeezing me in with another doctor early tomorrow morning. Instead of waiting until next Wednesday. I just have to be up early to reach the surgery by 8am.

 Dinner was beans on toast. I poured the whole tin onto the toast but ate only half of the beans. I would not have eaten them if I had put the other half in the fridge. Cut out the middle man. Straight into the food recycling bin.

 

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