29.04.2025 43km ride and corner display cabinet.

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  Tuesday 29th 50F/10C [7.00] Overcast, but sunshine and 19C/66F promised.

 Up at 6.50 after a quiet night. I have a dental appointment just after lunch. So I have a choice of what to do this morning. I think a ride to a charity shop with furniture might do. 20km each way. They don't open until 10.00.  

 I like the way Google Maps calls all routes flat. There are some short but very steep hills going both ways! Allow an hour each way plus browsing time. Home in plenty of time for lunch.

 I am still looking for a suitable cupboard for the front hall. For my battery charging. Something to hide the mess while it isn't being used. While providing a well ventilated surface for active charging. I don't see drawers being very useful.

 7.30. My morning walk. 

 8.15 Back from a tour around the fields by the spray tracks. A huge BMS mobile crane went past. While I was still on the road. A pig farm is expanding its buildings and storage tanks just beyond a nearby village. Lots of EVs on the Danish roads these days.

 9.00-11.15 43km ride to a distant charity shop. My guess as to the time required was spot on. Headwind going. Tail/crosswind on the way back. Saddle sore before I reached my goal. No cycling shorts. I raised the saddle by a centimeter but it didn't help. Though the new height felt better. My hands and wrists are aching again.

 I had time to change almost half the water in the fish tank.

 16.00 66F/19C.  The dentist told me to have a go with floss. Even provided me with some white "catapults" to practice with. 

 Afterwards I went on to the nearby charity shop. Where I immediately saw one of the corner display cabinets. Which matches the three I have already. I have been searching for a corner cabinet for ages! 

 So I had to return home for the trailer. Then return to collect the cabinet. 300kr is about £34 Sterling. Peanuts. Now I just have to find somewhere to put it! 

 There is only one suitable corner left in the room. Which already has a grandfather [longcase] clock in it. The other corners all have windows close by. Which means the cabinet would block the light. 

 Move the clock to somewhere else? Between the TV and fish tank? Why did I put the fish tank on the end wall? It could run along the long wall beside the TV. That would leave room for the clock on the end wall. The waist section doesn't project much. So it won't block the view of the aquarium. 

 Or, the clock could go on the long wall between the TV and fish tank. I'd just have to move the swan neck standard lamp. Into the small gap beyond the aquarium. Stop waffling and have a nap! Yes Chris!

19.15. No dinner yet. Clock moved and new cabinet shuffled into the empty corner. You would not belief what a struggle it was doing it myself! The cabinet and the clock are both heavy. The cabinet was propped up in the trailer and had to be lowered to horizontal. So I could slide it into the rear entrance hall. Before lifting it upright. 

 I had to saw off the arched window's windowsill before it would fit. Only just. Now I can display my wife's china cat collection and perhaps some of her teapots. It depends how much room the cats need.

 Dinner was two poached eggs with baked beans. It sounds odd but it was fine. I was halfway through before I realised I hadn't taken a picture. I followed up with a buttered bread roll and coffee.

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