I had a really good sleep until around 03:00 when one of those night time discomforts disturbed me. It was a brief awakening, and I fell asleep again until after 06.00.
So there was a slowness about my getting going and I booked a lateish swim.
Outside did not excite me, or Heidi for that matter. But I steered myself into swimming kit and I set off for Didcot. It was very windy and similarly cold. The roads were very wet and puddly in places, and also almost completely dry in places. Weird.
There were not many cars in the pool car park which belied the number of people swimming. Some must have come on foot or by bike. But the swim was its usual boring self, but quite pleasant. The toddlers eventually arrived and it was time for me to get out.
I made it back home to relax for a while and shower and have fruit and yoghurt. H and I eyed the weather up and decided we would probably not get wet. There were big banks of dark clouds, but there were also chinks of blue in the sky.
I decided to wear my seriously protective dry robe. It is brilliant in cold wet or windy weather, or in all three. I can sit out in pouring rain and keep dry. And it is so long my backside stays dry if I sit on a soggy bench. It was just the job for today.
The walk (Cholsey Meadows) was very refreshing. But the technicians were still busy with their holes and the generator, so I steered clear of that area. We trailed round the cricket ground and other fields and I found a different bench upon which to park myself.
At the end of the walk, I drove us down to the river which was not as far away as I expected because the river had advanced up Ferry Lane, drowning the slipway and a few hundred metres of the lane. Never seen it like that before.
I returned home to do a few chores and relax etc. That was it more or less.
The slipway starts where the fence ends.
Pen and T by the slipway in drier times – probably mid November last year – T must have just been to the barber. But you can see he is poorly.
In the absence of any riveting TV, I watched some of the ‘Space Shuttle that fell to Earth’ which I had started to watch a week or two ago. I found it very interesting, especially the old film footage . I don’t know how they managed to connect up all that internal electronic equipment inside Columbia. And as for the dilemmas they faced over the orange insulation that fell off. I still have some way to go.
I may swim later in the coming days. Debs tells me early afternoons are very quiet.
Thought for the Day
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