There's nothing quite like failure to snap me out of my trance.
Usual sketch.... had a long lie in today..... didn't get up till half nine.
Hobble downstairs with my semi-human gait.... augmented by crutches and knee brace, but trying to plant my foot on the floor even though i'm not putting much weight through the leg/knee.....
Sit down on the sofa.
Open my idoku and make a start.... one small error that i trapped as i went along..... think i ended up with two sixes in a column at one point but i soon rectified it..... difficulty was moderate today as there was a real deficit of ones, sixes, and sevens..... but once the pieces started fitting, it all came together for a quick finish.... circa twenty two minutes? I lie, it was thirty three.... but, given that i used to take "days" to complete it, it's a demonstration of brain training.
Onto Wordle..... Less said about that, the better..... once i had the first 4 letters, i had three guesses at the final letter, and of course it could have been any number of them nd i just ran out of guesses - most annoying, and a drop back down to ninety-five percent and a zero win streak.... groans.
Second cup of coffee kicks in and i am enraged at the builders across the road.... there's a little beeping noise, like when the washing machine insists that it's finished washing your clothes and keeps reminding you...... they've also got a fire going.... like it's not hot enough already, and they're burning broken pallets.... which is not a wise thing to do as most pallets are treated to phytosanitary levels, sometimes with nasty chemicals. I close the windows and curse them on the hottest day of the week.
Even Radio 3 Unwind isn't cooling my biryani today!
I'm going to try and go out for some lunch if the leg holds up.....
Watch this space....
I'm off to get some proper "outside" clothes on.....
Given your mobility issues, donning proper outdoor clothes will prove difficult so instead of trousers, I suggest a kilt. Has Dawn got a tartan skirt you could wear? Otherwise, a picnic blanket and a big safety pin should do the trick.
ReplyDeleteshorts - i've spent the last ten weeks in shorts..... but there ar different fabrics.... so the indoor ones are more like pyjama shorts.... flimsy and cool, where the outdoor shorts are more substantial.... nobody needs to see me in pyjamas
DeleteGo have some nice biryani for lunch!
ReplyDeleteI had to close my office doors for most of the afternoon yesterday. The bellend nextdoor hired a strimmer to attack some overgrowth. An exercise in futility that took him so long the petrol fumes were making my head go.
ReplyDeleteBurning pallets is a shocking waste, surely they can be returned or used elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteWas the meal good?
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