6°C, light cloud
4.30 am: another early dawn, but less so than yesterday. This typing is tricky with hands still cold from the dogwalk. This morning is less warm than yesterday. The city was more alive though; fewer black windows to reflect the morning twighlight sky. Some people about with dogs; no sign of yesterday’s runner.
another meeting sketch A6 paper.
Later...: been a long day, full of energy and I’m still going Will run out soon. I’ve wanted a photo of this tree for years, finally, done it.
04.40 :Dark right now. Lying awake thinking stuff over. Conversations mostly; non-too good ones though. Sunday nights are often plagued with sleeplessness, I can only guess why. Pre-work and troubled old friendships.
Bessie: (and Rosie) have new haircuts, but they are sometimes chilly. I see them shivering- that’s why I covered her in a blanket. She looks satisfied with the arrangement in this shot.
Cycled to Calke Abbey today, there is no Abbey there. Still a good place, much busier than Staunton Harold down the road.
The Green movement: is failing BBC. Yeah, and…
Goodnight. Up again in one hour; hope the camomile tea works tonight.
Film: Da Vinci Code: what frivolous sentimental bilge that was. Beautifully shot, with an extremely silly story. 
Sketch: from a cover lesson yesterday, didn’t take long, but then the page is small. Year 7s are bonkers.
Today has been troubled by a poor night’s sleep and a disturbing phone text from a stranger.
Catkins: Willow I suspect.
Winter is just about over.
News Rant: A chocolate tax, phew it was voted out in Scotland. The News is a crazy place, stories of mad-men, idiots and destruction. Maybe I should ignore it.
New CD: Johnny Cash- Solitary Man
The flowers are going to kill you: BBC news.
They are to be banned because of some Health&Safety "issue". Issue means "problem" these days. What has not so far been made clear is what the mechanism is that links the presence of flowers by the roadside and a danger to passing traffic. If Memorial flowers are a risk to drivers somehow, are the flowers on roundabouts also a risk? Are flowers somehow drawing drivers from a safe path with their delicate colours and alluring scent? Some kind of modern landlocked Siren?
And a concern for me- are they some threat to me as a cyclist? There are too many unanswered questions- including – is local government having trouble attracting the brightest minds from our growing pool of graduates?
Sinead O’Connor:CD- The Lion And The Cobra (remember her?). Bought for iPod for £2.00 from Amazon, why bother with iTunes?
8°C, clear but windy
Worst time for a ride to work today: 48 mins. Headwind all the way is my excuse: the ride home was fun.
Using Google Earth to add in a missing river delta into FSX. This picture shows some of the braided rivers to the north west. I may have to remove the kettle-holes in FSX and add them back in manually because of some odd conflicts with my rivers. It looks alright so far.
Teenagers: you can now start some schools at the end of the morning. It’s not that the world revolves around you or anything, but since you need 9 hours sleep and we like to pander to your every desire; we are going to open schools as the morning is finishing.
Go to bed earlier? Yeah, lights out at like 10pm, as if? Oh, don’t trouble yourself…
…we’ll shift the whole world to suit you instead.
We don’t mind waiting for 3 or 4 hours during the best time of the day in a quiet deep enough to be at peace with our thoughts. All that shouting you like to do can start later.
Waiting: for this storm to blow over. Cycle later, after cleaning up some very muddy ladies. They enjoyed the run.
The wind blows, so you must sway to and fro, this way and that, back and forth, day and night.
I laughed at a van today, normally they are not very funny, especially the dirty silver ones with company logos all over them. This one had on the back door:
Fight Club: watched at last. Thanks to Helen for the recommend, you are also right that the film needs repeated viewing.
Micycle 