14.02.2025 Success at last!

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  Friday 14th 30F/-1C [6.50] The run of winter cold continues. Risk of some sunshine today.

 Up at 6.15 after a much more disturbed night. That small beer may not have been a good idea. Though I didn't have a coffee.

 6.50 Only 61F/16C in the room but it feels much colder. Stove lit. Only 38F/3C in the greenhouse. It feels like a walk-in fridge. Time to sort out another week of tablets.    

 8.15 Dark overcast. A lighter NE breeze today. Time for a walk.

 8.45 Back again. 66F/19C in the room. I looped out on the spray tracks on the prairie. The ground was rock hard from frost. I returned via the new drive embankment. The field pond was iced over. Lots of bird activity this morning. Which was unexpected. Due to the wind having dropped?

  9.45 I'd like to go for a ride but it is even colder than it has been. I want to try more charity shops for a bathroom cupboard. Which means I have to go further away from home. A long ride, with hands aching from the cold, isn't much fun. Even if the rest of me is warm. Which means going in the Morris.

 14.20 Returned from a long search for a bathroom cupboard. I visited umpteen charity shops in series. As far away as Fredericia in SE Jylland. Where I spotted the perfect item. It was just wide enough but not as deep as I had been looking for. Which actually worked in my favour. 

 Another centimeter and it would have been impossible to get it into the car without removing the passenger seat. No suitable tools! I'll have to put together a general purpose toolkit to go in the boot for emergencies.

 My luck was doubled because they were having a 50% discount sale on furniture. While getting the cupboard into the Morris was not easy. Getting it out again was much less trouble. Grippy, rubber faced work gloves are always useful in such moments. 

 Ignoring the petrol, the cupboard cost me the grand total of 200kr, £22 or €27. I still have to rotate the underfloor heating, thermostat head out of the way. That will move the cupboard a couple of centimeters tighter into the corner. Though there is plenty of room. In the end it was easier to lift the thermostat head off by loosening its clamp. 

 Dinner will be an organic pork chop. With mushrooms and chips. I still don't like the 2½ minutes each side recommendation. So I am giving the chop 5 minutes each side. It was perfect.

 

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