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Up at 6.15 after a quiet night.
7.15 I could tidy the balcony room. I have to extract particular audio cables from the tangled knitting. To go with the subwoofer system I have sold. There is a huge heap of empty cardboard boxes. Which have to go to the recycling yard. [On Wednesday] Easily a trailer full. Even if I nest them. Which is rather time consuming. They can go out of the balcony window and be taken the few yards to the trailer.
I can't get the trailer any nearer the window. Because of the steep incline down to the western lawn. Carrying all the boxes the length of the attic. To throw them out of the bedroom window. Straight into the trailer outside. Would take even longer. It would also expose the bedroom to freezing temperatures. While the balcony door can remain safely closed. Protecting the open plan house from major heat loss. Currently 62F/17C. Only 37F/3C in the greenhouse. Where it reached 68F/20C in yesterday's sunshine. I had better stop waffling and light the stove.
8.30 Hard white frost. Walkies!
9.15 Back again from the lanes. It felt colder than yesterday despite being calm. As I pushed myself to the edge of breathlessness. The sun rose over a distant hump at 8.45. I spotted the beeper today. It was a large woodpecker at the very top of a tall tree in the shelter belt. Just above the chubby half moon there were persistent vapour trails. Arranged in an unlikely pattern. They seemed to be clinging on exclusively at a particular altitude. None of the planes, which passed high overhead during my walk, were leaving a persistent trail.
The sun was lost behind clouds mid-morning. Later becoming a grey overcast.
11.45 I have tossed all the empty boxes out of the balcony window. Then stuffed the trailer. Nesting as many as I could to compact the overall volume. I added the polystyrene packaging, from the whiteware. Making the trailer full to the brim. After roping it down I will take it to a slightly more distant recycling yard. To avoid having the trailer standing idle but full for several days. Waiting until the nearer yard opens. I'll be back well in time for lunch.
12.45 It has all gone to the recycling yard. The elapsed time for the return journey was surprisingly short. I even stopped to shop briefly. Still no organic bananas.
Now I can make some sense of the balcony room contents. Perhaps bring in some low shelving. For more efficient use of the space available under the 45º sloping ceilings. The problem is what to put under the lowest area. Which won't get lost or inaccessible.
Thick mist by mid afternoon.
That's interesting. I have just had a mail from one of the local drainage contractors. Promising to do the work quickly. Perhaps as early as tomorrow morning.
Dinner was cheese on toast with cherry tomatoes. I forgot to take any pictures.
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