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Friday 17th 38F/3C [8.45] Another grey day. Dry but breezy from the WSW.
Up at 8.00 after bad night. I was awake a lot of the time. No plans for today yet. I should plod on with the kitchen.
9.00 61F/16C in the room. I had better light the stove first. The log pile in the greenhouse has gone down dramatically. So I ought to fetch some more before it becomes a problem.
9.15 I have just taken the ash box across the parking area. It is unpleasantly cold and damp outside. No bike rides today.
9.30 Ten minutes of breathlessly shoveling gravel into the mud has failed to warm me up. I couldn't pull away from my usual parking space over the last two days. Because the surface had turned to mush. Mowed grass is fine in summer but becomes a poor choice in winter. Frosts produce a squishy mess when they thaw. I am unsure how sharp gravel would behave if I laid that on top. It might ruin the mower when the grass grows through. As inevitably it must. The surface needs to be stripped back. Then a proper layer of gravel laid, leveled and compacted. For a year round, vehicle proof surface.
13.50 Just in time for lunch. I have brought all the logs in from the trailer. Excellent exercise. Increasingly windy and spots of rain in the air. 68F/20C in the room.
I had to drag the washing machine out of the way to retrieve my large frying pan. The machine had been blocking the large drawers of the IKEA cabinet. Dinner was a fry up of chicken, mushrooms and eggs. Helped down with a bread roll. It was the first time I managed to flip the eggs without breaking them. They were perfectly runny.
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