14.09.2026 Tweggs.

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  Monday 14th 52F/11C [8.00] A dry but cloudy day. With only a little sunshine.

 Up at 7am after a fairly quiet night. 22C/72F in the room with the heat pump remote set to 20C and Heat.

 My next exercise class is in town at 11am. I'll go in the Morris.

 I brought the empty bins back. After having a game of catch with the robot. I couldn't get past it with two bins. It was too quick for me! 

 The exercise therapy went well today. I was able to use my cycling fitness on some exercises. No dizziness at all.

 After lunch I was busy with the robot mower. I was dissatisfied with its failure to cover every inch of the drive. So I deleted the map and started from scratch. This time it reached much further than before. I repeated the mapping and mowing several times. 

 And so it came to the dinner menu. The tuna on fresh, wholemeal, bread rolls went quickly out of the window. The "help" hadn't restocked! Of course I had to let him go. One simply cannot tolerate such inadequacy in the shopping department.

 So it was to be boiled eggs on fresh bread rolls. The latter were already buttered in anticipation of tuna being readily forthcoming. Which only left the matter of timing: 6 minutes for runny. 8 minutes for soft boiled. The logic was clear. The eggs would be lowered into boiling water and would remain there for exactly seven minutes. 

 After which the hot water would be dumped into the sink and cold water would quickly replace it. Twice. To ensure the eggs would peel cleanly. And did. I had allowed five minutes for the eggs to cool by immersion. 

 They were absolutely perfect. Runny, yet firm enough to be cut into slices with a common kitchen knife. Swab please, nurse. The only downside. Was my inability to readily use the TV remote control. Due to an excess of  yolk adhering to these miraculous, surgeon's digits.    

 

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13.09.2026 43km. No limits.

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  Sunday 13th 62F/17C [9.45] Overcast with possible local showers. Brighter later. A breeze from the W-NW.

 A comfortable 21C/70F in the room. I left the heat pump on overnight set to 20C. So it has settled down.

 No further contact from the chap who showed interest in my lathe. 

 I just had my morning chat online with my minder. No immediate plans for today.

 I think I'll go for another ride. It isn't raining. I have had to do quite a bit of ducking recently. To avoid overhanging shrubs and trees on the cycle paths. I wonder, if I were to identify as a taller person. Do you think they would trim the shrubbery more efficiently? 

 Denmark has rules about hedges. Mostly about height where adjoining neighbours disagree. I am unsure about the law. What if private citizens were to trim overhanging branches on official cycle paths? What if I were to carry loppers on my bike? Would I be guilty of carrying weapons of mass destruction? Like burglars are prosecuted for carrying tools. To aid breaking into a unidentified property.

 13.50 Back from a 43km ride to Assens and back. Mostly by the still incomplete, cycle path. It is now largely navigable. Even to the very end. Opposite the Assens police station. I know all the roads around the path intimately. Yet it still feels like a very long way traveling along the path. The vanishing point seems almost at infinity. Largely due to the tunnel effect of hedges on either side. 

  18.15 I dragged two recycling bins long the drive and sent the mower out. 

 Time to think about making dinner. 

 Sunday dinner was fried chicken, mushrooms, carrots, peas, mashed potatoes and Bisto gravy. 

 

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12.09.2026 30km.

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 Saturday 12th 57F/14C [8.00] Overcast but mainly dry this morning. Wet later and overnight into Sunday.

24C/75F in the room! I left the heat pump running overnight set to 19C. It is still pumping out hot air at 40C and rising. Something obviously isn't right with the remote control. I have reduced the setting to 16C. To see if anything changes.

 I dropped the price of my lathe to 4000kr and have somebody interested. No further response to my answering message.

 Thee was an unexpected guest in a car yesterday afternoon. Nobody I know. They may have been at the wrong address. They reversed away from the entrance after some hesitation. I was having a nap at the time. 

 The heat pump continued heating the room. So I switched it off. 

 Image taken yesterday. Concrete being added to the base of the new railway bridge. Where the embankment has still has a long way to go to reach the top of the bridge. The motorway runs alongside but is hidden behind the black noise barrier. 

 12.00 Back from a 30km ride. Including riding an unfinished stretch of off-road on the new cycle path. Just bare earth by the look of it. I joined the path where workers are widening the main road. My guess is that they will build a traffic island. To make it safer to cross by bicycle. They have a similar arrangement above Aarup. Where the excellent, two-way cycle path ends just short of the motorway and new rail track. 

 I did a load of shopping in the village on the way back. It always surprises me. How much the Ortlieb Classic panniers will accept. I was shocked how rapidly the basket was filling up with essentials. So much so that I was almost tempted to put it all back. Then ride home to fetch the car. I need not have worried. The bulging carrier bags each dropped into the gaping maw of an Ortlieb. It stayed dry but breezy for my ride. The rain in now supposed to arrive around 19.00. Lasting well into late, tomorrow afternoon.

 I checked on the noisy "gardening" going on in the empty property. The twin carports have now been cleared of junk and several massive shrubs removed. Which had been growing tight against the empty house. I wish my buddleias grew so well and so fast! They were packed with flowers too.

 

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