Good morning to you all, After yesterday’s hot and sunny day, today is a bit of a disappointment, quite a bit of cloud about.
No walk for me this morning, seniors’ meeting today which is my excuse for being late with my post.
Apart from writing minutes up and dealing with some emails I don’t have a lot planned for today. Putting the bins out could be a highlight.
Tonight is supposed to be much cooler than the previous couple of weeks of warm humid nights, all about 20° minimum, tonight is supposed to get down into the mid teens. I am looking forward to it.
Nothing to see here folks, I hope your day is a bit more exciting.
I have food in, and my flat is tidy enough, so I’ll be doing my hobbies, something I don’t seem to have managed for months
To remind you, one of my hobbies is making knives; I buy bare blades then fit my own handles
This means I have a lot of pieces & offcuts of hard woods
Recently I’ve been watching YT Videos on making wooden necklace pendants, and I thought I’d have a go at that, as if I’m not busy enough
So I’ll be picking through my wood; thinking, planning, and selecting
At the speed I go that will probably take most of the day, so I might not get around to the actual doing yet
If you’re interested, Search YT for Making Knife Handles and Ricardus Wood Carving
Bit of a grey and blowy start to the day here by the seaside. The only thing going on today is dropping the wife off at the gym and coffee.
Yesterday I had an email from our friendly NHS wanting to know if I’m interested in participating in a drugs trial for a new kind of antidepressant, which would involve all sorts of blood tests, surveys and numerus hospital visits, and get paid £145 for it. Obviously someone has been delving into my medical records and found I was diagnosed back in 2009 and assumed I was still taking the meds, which I stopped soon after getting them as I was having bad side effects at the time and not been back for it since. So I’ve decided not to bother, as I already starting to get health issues and I don’t want to compound them with untested drugs I don’t need, especially the list of potential side-effects they may have.
If they wanted me to test a new type of chocolate biscuit, then that would be a different matter…
Good Morning Everyone from a stormy South Yorkshire…
Went for an extra long walk this morning and managed to do a lot of steady jogging, it was so invigorating jogging into the wind along a windswept towpath and exposed riverbank.
Only the second time I’ve done this route and apart from some short road bits, it takes me well out into the wilds and back. I wore my GPS watch this morning to check the distance…
I’m halfway through a good book recently and I’m sorry but was itching to read a few more chapters instead of doing my duty on the forum after breakfast.
The book is about Ben Fogle and James Cracknell taking part in a race to the South Pole.
I must say, it’s beginning to wake the adventurer in me, but not in the Antarctic or anywhere else cold…
Now that’s what I call an explorer Besoeker…You’ve got to be a hard man/woman to achieve the North or South Poles.
I wouldn’t last ten minutes in those conditions.
Interesting to note though, because James Cracknell was an athlete he could become hypothermic quicker than Ben Fogle due to James irregular heart beat.
I myself suffered from hypothermia in Newquay once. I went swimming in the sea on a hot day but stayed in the water too long and collapsed while walking up the beach.
Everyone thought I’d had an Heart Attack and was taken to the local hospital where they confirmed hypothermia because my heart beat was so slow (around 40 bpm) it failed to speed up when I became cold.
At the time I was running quite a few marathons and fell runs and was quite fit.
Jethro was a woken by a loud ‘Bang’ last night. Thinking it was a ‘Message’ from Iran.
He took cover.
Only to find the cover, was an empty waste bin. Blown over by a Westerly Wind. All da way 2 The Tip.
All da way 2 The Tip.