6.04.2026 Gales continue!

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  Monday 6th 40F/4.4C [7.35] Bright but quite cloudy. Expected to gust to 16m/s only slowly reducing.

 Up at 7.15after a mixed night. 

 A complex new railway bridge. The main road to Odense goes straight under. I am standing on the original road surface. The new railway goes over the new bridge at an acute angle. The car on the right is on a temporary detour loop. Skirting around the building site. 

 That whole area on the right will have to be raised with sand and soil. To match the top of the bridge. As will the area on the left of the bridge. The motorway is behind the dark, sound blocking panels on the right. Once the work is completed the motorway and new railway will be parallel to each other.  

9.25 Heavy overcast. Going for a walk.

 9.50 Back again. Blowing an absolute gale. My eyes and nose were streaming. The road was covered in hundreds of twigs and branches. Blown out of the hedgerows. After the tractor hedge slashers had dropped everything on the verge months ago.  

 I have to attend to the clear polycarbonate sheet in the corner of the greenhouse. Despite the bolts and all the spring clips I fitted last time it blew out. The panel had been sucked out yet again. Just a matter of rescuing the spring clips from the undergrowth and refitting them. The bolts had held the corner edge. The far side of the panel is held only by clips. There is nowhere to fit bolts through the aluminium frame on that side. 

 12.00 I have been wandering about outside. Seeing what needs doing. Lots! Still blowing an eye watering gale. 

 A contractor has turned up with a tractor. Equipped with a flat girder frame mounted in front. Where a bucket would normally go. He is making very quick work of scraping the drive flat. Using the existing material rather than importing new? We'll see what happens next. Rain may undo everything he achieves. Unless he uses a roller or plate vibrator to compact the rough surface. And/or brings in gravel. To dress the top surface.

 17.30 The wind must have reduced. I can't hear it any more. Though the trees are still moving. Thanks to hours of sunshine the greenhouse lifted the indoor temperatue to 72F/22C. I have just closed the doors and windows. The stove has not been lit so far.

 Dinner was cheese on toast with halved cherry tomatoes. 

 

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