13°C, clear bits, warmer tomorrow
12 hours & 13 minutes of daylight today. Check for yourself: here, on Date and Time.
Strange feeling, have I got a cold all of a sudden? Headache, lethargic and a sore throat. Hope clings to hayfever which comes on with beech pollen at this time of year. Some hope.
+2°C, cold last night but improving this week
Physio appointment: Good- I don’t have to stop cycling; good- I don’t need drug treatment; good, exercises to heal the tendon strength. The sort of diagnosis that I have faith in. It needs 3 sets of 20 heel-raises a day. Those press-ups & crunches are neglecting my legs. I suppose with an ankle injury that there is some compensation going on that leaves the supporting muscles weaker.
+4° to –2°C, dry.
Don’t think I will make it tomorrow. I’ve had a shivery night and a vacuous, listless day. Not made any posts in a short while, but can easily blame pre-viral syndrome. Spring is coming though, there are buds out there.
7~1°C, sunny pieces
…lower the saddle too far & your knees ache.
7°C, cloud, S. wind & some rain.
That tendonitis was unnoticeable yesterday. Why was that, the new bike with new pedals or was it the old shoes? The seat is lower on that bike so I will try lowering the seat on the other bikes half an inch or so. It seems possible, though I lowered the seat in the spring, that it’s still too high. Could that be the why this tendinitis has taken so long to heal. It got worse while riding the commuting bike only. Perhaps the summer bike is set up better, but I’ll see in the early spring. these things usually result form multiple causes.
I just don’t know.
+2°C, fog & rain
I have a cold, but it’s my precious holiday. Damn
-2°C & dropping. Snow soon.
Snow flurries, too cold to cycle and it’s likely to stay this way for two more weeks. I’m physically frustrated- my legs are fizzy and I can’t settle. At least I have a turbo-trainer this year. There is a gym in work too.
Found it! how thrilling it is when something lost comes back to you. It’s been over six months & many hours in all, looking. Such an open, honest pleasure from a well meaning inanimate object: though no sentient being, I am grateful to you. Do you need a wash?
14°C,Wet warm & windy
camped in the lee of woods, winds gusting above 30mph
Poor attempt at a few day’s hiking this week. All I have is some very wet kit and a torn ligament. The ligament ripped in a motorway service station not somewhere heroic like a mountain side. If I’d been on a mountain, I would not have been wearing my smooth-soled driving shoes. If I’d been on a mountain, I would have needed rescuing, that state it’s in.
Then what? I was pulled over by the police for suspected no-insurance. She phoned my insurance company and they confirmed that I’m covered. Good outcome; but how many times will I get pulled before the Police database is updated?
18°C, cloudy & warmer
That lurking cold have come out of the shadows. Nose blocking, with sore chest and mouth. The curious bit, though is that Achilles tendon. Why, when I have a cold do they hurt? Do these viruses go global in their attack on tissue types or is it just certain types or membrane? Any immunologists out there who could offer an answer?
Symphony No.4
Am I right to be annoyed that I couldn’t get the insert booklet out of this CD case without tearing it?
15°C, cloudy with slow rain.
What is this- a cold? Maybe, that slow feeling is visiting, a cold could come or maybe it’s all nothing.
Micycle 