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Wednesday 13th 61F/16C [7.00]. Bright but rather cloudy. Peaking at 26C/79F. They are calling this a heat wave? Quite breezy from the east.
7.20 Time for a walk.
8.00 And back again. Warm enough for a T-shirt again. With a nicely cool, easterly breeze. The traffic was busy again. Nervous gulls drifted across the newly shorn landscape. A few stacks of bales still hanging forlornly on. Like forgotten luggage. The bare ground had completely changed the acoustic. I kept looking around for the traffic. Which seemed to be approaching but was merely the sound. Carrying across from the main road.
A tractor passed with a vast, open trailer. Decorated with bands stretched between V-shaped, hydraulically operated arms. So that the bales could be held tight. Instead of relying only on weight and friction. To remain safely in place.
10.10 Paused for a rest and to put several flat batteries on charge. I have mowed the drive and attacked the western lawn. Followed by strimming the sides of the drive. It's not my job. The drive adjoins private property. It is the absent property investor's job. To clear the weeds and massively overgrown hedges and trees. If I don't do it then who will? Nobody. Without my intervention access to my own home would soon end!
14.15 80F/2.7C. Hot sunshine. Dripping with sweat. I have strimmed the western lawn again. Then repeatedly mowed and raked the grass. The Makita mower couldn't cope with lying grass. It just stalled. So I kept raking and mowing. I ran the mower repeatedly along the edges of the drive too. After strimming and clipping the hedges some more. It is too hot to continue.
18.40 I went out later to rake the drive. It still felt hotter than indoors. [73F/22.8C in the room]
Dinner was beans on toast. A whole tin!
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