Gorgeous morning ....

 

5th October 2020 (Monday)    10.30 .... we had a lot of rain overnight and the


usual puddles are looking good this morning;  but forget the puddles.... we have a glorious morrrrrrrning with lots of magnificent clouds around, some of which can bring a short but heavy shower over us.   I got caught in one up at Chapel Green.     I’m thinking it’s ‘morning coffee’ time.

18.30     I’ve had a busy day;  a mix of working on the computer, some ‘ousework (not much) and a bit of ‘play’.     I chanced a run up to Chapel Green on the bike and got caught by a heavy shower (the bike can stand  a shower but not prolonged wet).  I dried  the bike and it is fine;  I then changed my wet things and had another shower.   I feel clean.    When I think about it;   I haven’t looked at the photographs I went up to Chapel Green to get.    Later in the day I went up to Balcarres (in the car) for a change of scenery, but it was spitting rain so I didn’t do the Woodland walk.  


This morning I got a phone call from gas, and electricity company  asking me to read the meters.   I couldn’t do it at that time but  arranged to be available, with the readings at 14.00.   Bang on 14.00 the phone rang and I delivered the readings.    Now I’m wonder what has happened to all the meter readers, who used to come round every so often .... about once a year.   I imagine they are ‘unemployed’ now that the furlough has ended, and we are reading our own meters.   It’s a sad world we are living in.

21.30     What exciting things will I do tomorrow?    I suppose I could go somewhere different in the car but that’s not getting much in the way of exercise.   The forecast is ‘good’ though there’s a ‘chance of precipitation’  in the first part of the morning, with sunny spells in the afternoon.    I might cut back the Clematis (if it’s dry), it has been like
a wild thing this year;  the more I cut it back the faster it grows.   

I am enjoying working with the postcards but that’s really a wet day job:  it is absolutely fascinating browsing them.   I’m hoping the albums come sometime this week..... so that can find out if they are suitable.   

 


21.30     What exciting things will I do tomorrow?    I suppose I could go somewhere different in the car but that’s not getting much in the way of exercise.   The forecast is ‘good’ though there’s a ‘chance of precipitation’  in the first part of the morning, with sunny spells in the afternoon.    I might cut back the Clematis (if it’s dry), it has been like a wild thing this year;  the more I cut it back the faster it grows.   I’m enjoying working with the postcards but that’s really a wet day job:  it is absolutely fascinating browsing them.   I’m hoping the albums come sometime this week..... so that can find out if they are suitable.   

 

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