19.02.2025 Shower rail.

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  Wednesday 19th 19F/-7C. Another sunny day. Starting with a white frost. A weather change tomorrow.

 Up at 6.45 after a false start or two. The fridge is showing -30C! My milk was frozen to slushy on my porridge oats! 58F/4C in the room. Stove lit. Twice! I let it go out through lack of observation. I have reached the end of the last load of logs and must start on the new.

 Physio after lunch. I was considering riding there. The sunshine is so bright and the route so beautiful. The problem is arriving heavily dressed for the cold conditions. Which I have to remove in the open gymnasium. 

 The changing rooms are so far away as to be irrelevant. So the class member's clothes are piled in heaps on the benches. To be replaced by the clothes of the following class at the overlap. So, after getting all sweaty, exercising heavily in the warm building, I have to dress for the cold again. I had better leave the riding to class until it gets a bit warmer.

 11.30 Our hero has been tidying and cleaning the kitchen. In readiness for the arrival of the new fridge-freezer tomorrow. I didn't want to be faced with a filthy floor beneath the old fridge. Fortunately I had already cleaned that area [and the rest] when I moved the fridge over from the alcove. I have repeatedly swept and squeegeed the entire floor. I washed up and cleaned and tidied the sink area. This corner is still a work in progress. I don't like the open shelving. Far too untidy under my care. Though the various tubs do help to contain the chaos. 

 12.45 Just time for a quick lunch.

 18.30 31F/-0.6C. Time to make some dinner. Physio went well. Though I was rather breathless at times. I shopped afterwards and on the way home. I now have a shower head rail. We were never allowed to have one. In case I broke the tiles while drilling for the fixing screws. So the shower head was handheld for over two decades. 

 It was always a sits bath. There was no room for a full bath. The toilet was in exactly the wrong but only space available. Besides, sitting above the waterline is far more comfortable and hygienic than sitting in one's own filth. It also uses far less water. 

 There is a low seat at the tail end. Formed during the bath pressing. Before that it was standing room only in a shower. We searched widely for a short bath when we arrived. Eventually we found one at a tile store in the city harbour. Cheap, too! That one was replaced after years of loyal service. Both were of enameled steel.

 Today I bought a complete kit with the vertical rail, wall fittings, new hose and shower head. Inexpensive and mostly of plastic, but it solved several problems. The old head and hose were years old and getting coated with water hardness. The new head provides a sharp spray for very little water flow. A great improvement over the old one.

 Dinner was a fry-up. Of chicken, mushrooms, eggs and baked beans. Helped down with a bread roll and an organic beer.

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