30.01.2025 Toxic waste?

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  Thursday 30th 41F/5C. Quite windy with possible showers this morning.

 Up at 6.15 after being awake at 4am. Fell asleep again and it was two hours later.

 Cooking class. I hope the Morris behaves itself. 

 Now the kitchen is coming together I need to invent a cleaning routine. It has been so cluttered that even sweeping the tiles was rather pointless. So much stuff on the working surfaces and around the sink that cleaning properly was all but impossible. 

 The cupboards under the sink contain probably 30 kinds of cleaning materials and chemicals. Of which I have used only one or two and haven't a clue about the rest. Most of it inherited from my wife. I tidied up and cleared out the illegible bottles a couple of years ago.

 Disposing of half full bottles requires a ten kilometers drive to another recycling yard and then back again. They don't deal with "dangerous materials" locally. 

  8.00 Only 63F/17C in the room. I don't think there's much point in lighting the stove until I get back.

 8.20 The car started but didn't want to run for long. I have been trying to rake out the deep tracks the plumber's van made in the mud on the parking space. It needs to be scraped clean with a mini front loader. Then a hard/firm surface produced by compaction and then graveled over. They use a lot of pea gravel around here but it's hopeless with vehicles. Angular chippings lock together and don't fly about. God knows what that would cost if it was done commercially. 

 15.00 Back from cooking class and shopping on the way home. 61F/16C in the room. Stove lit.

 No need for dinner as I ate well at the cooking class.

 

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