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Thursday 2nd 61F/16C [7.30] Overcast with showers and wind. 22C/71F in the room. 16C/62F in the greenhouse.
Up at 6am after a fairly quiet night.
I have an appointment for an assessment chat with a physiotherapist in Assens. This is after numerous cancellations due to my own ill health. I attended the free exercise sessions the first time I had a heart operation. The staff were delightful, young people. Very attentive, empathetic and well trained.
Unfortunately there is a time limit on the number of sessions per heart patient. So after that I went onto fairly inexpensive sessions for elderly heart patients at a sports center. Which was a much larger group performing in a vast gymnasium. Which I didn't really mind.
It was the coffee and group chats afterwards. I simply could not hear the conversations against the high background, noise levels in a highly reverberant acoustic. Low ceilings, huge overhead beams, long tables. People would ask me direct questions and I could not hear a single word they said! Which made me feel like a fool. So I stopped going.
13.00 Back from town. I chatted for an hour with the delightful young physiotherapist. I now have an exercise App on my phone and will probably start group physio sessions in August. Then I moved onto a Zeiss optician for a free eye test. He was incredibly thorough.
I bought a 30m network cable from a big shed store. To be able to mount one of my West Lawn security cams to face the house. The present car park cam looks towards the carport. It takes in a large area but I'd like a view to monitor the house itself.
I detoured to examine progress on the new cycle path. Running from Assens, through Ebberup to Glamsbjerg. The contractors on the section from Ebberup onward have already covered a lot of ground. With the rails and sleepers lifted. Leaving a long, earthen trough in a pretty tunnel of overhanging trees. The route will be absolutely gorgeous once completed. Hopefully some time around December. There is a very special atmosphere about abandoned railways. Not the conditions today to be taking pictures.
It has been raining hard and blowing all morning. With larger puddles in the lanes than I have ever seen. One puddle near home was 3/4 of the way across the road and very deep. I waved down an approaching, touring motorcyclist and saw him apply his brakes in my rear view mirror. Just before he got there. I had used the wrong side of the road to pass the puddle and was still in very deep water.
Even at 13.45 it is still raining hard. I can see bright stripes of rainwater reflecting the grey sky. Working their way down the drive.
It eventually brightened up and the rain stopped. Though remaining very cloudy and windy. I felt tired, head-achy and fuzzy. So I went to bed for a nap.
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