Good morning one and all. A somewhat overcast day so far.
A bit of a sad day for me, I attended the funeral of a long time friend, someone I have known since the late 80s, for decades we used to cycle to work as well every weekend and took part in events such as the Sydney to 'Gong charity ride… I had lost touch with him in very recent years after he had a stroke, developed dementia and moved to Sydney to be near his daughters. My kids remembered him fondly. It was a broken hip and heart failure that finally took him.
Weather is a bit unsettled here in south Hampshire today. Not sure if it’s going to sun or rain.
Mrs G is off to look after my father in law today, leaving me on my own. Chance to catch up on some house chores, namely size up some plumbing in the kitchen, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I also have a ton of documents I need to scan and shred as they are taking up too much space unnecessarily. Also have some cleaning to do (who said retirement was easy?)
Before any of that, it’s time for my coffee and bacon sandwich.
Yesterday afternoon between the rain showers I manged to clear out the roof gutters. Had not done it for a long time and started to overflow at the down pipe end. Apart from the usual muck there also were bits of stone??? posible cement from the ridge tiles.
Good Morning from Foxy’s World…
Sunny and warm but it’s clouded over now and looks like rain.
Went out early for my walk/jog and didn’t feel much like jogging. I was doing a fairly quick pace anyway, and didn’t start jogging until half way round. I don’t feel like doing much today so I might have a browse around the workshop and see what interests me. My old desktop computer has recently packed up, it doesn’t connect to the internet anymore so it’s good for backing up my laptop with no risk of corruption. I think it might be the power supply so I’ll strip it down and have a look.
I didn’t think that Bruce’s plant was a red hot poker, the leaves looked all wrong and there was no yellow in the flower heads, but what I know about gardening you could write on the back of a fag packet.
Sorry to hear about you friend Bruce…
I lost one of my best mates some years ago, he was always good for a discussion and putting the world to rights, I still miss him.
I seem to get very tired very quickly these days and guess it’s down to a defective heart, I wonder if Swimmy has the same problem.
I hope he’s out of resus and sitting at home watching his fish…very relaxing…
Thanks Swim, is that what I’ve got to look forward to.
Apart from my previous heart attacks in 2004 and 2014 I was bouncing back after a few months to keep running half marathons, but in 2021 I was struggling on 5 mile training runs and since then it’s been all downhill. After a MRI scan I was informed that my heart was only 38% efficient and suffering from Tachycardia and Bradycardia, gentle jogging saw my heartrate jump from 35 BPM while resting, to over 200 BPM and I was fitted with a pacemaker/defibrillator and Beta Blockers (Bisoprolol) I can now only jog for a couple of minutes at a time before my legs turn to jelly and am gasping for air.
I was suffering from angina like symptoms last winter and I realise that it was the cold air as you mentioned. I’m okay now, but fear it might come back when the weather starts turning cold again.
So in just four years the deterioration has been substantial, but despite that I will continue to plod on…Plod being the operative word…
I take my inspiration from blokes like you Swim, and I’ll go down fighting…
