Wednesday, the house is at work, and I get up for coffee and a fried egg sandwich. Meds follow of course. The house has been invaded by flys again so it’s time to tape up the air vent into the chimney space. I should explain that once in a while a bird will either fall down the chimney or throw another animal down it. The result is a lot of scrabbling for a while, silence and then the emergence of flies once the maggoty stage has been gone through. Sounds revolting, it is. Thankfully it is a rare occurrence but when it happens it’s a nuisance. So apart from spraying rooms with Raid and hoovering up the dead bodies blocking up their means of ingress is a good ploy. That way I assume they find their way out by flying up the chimney and becoming part of the local bat populations diet. Job done I can retreat to the Shed to write letters for the morning but not before I book the annual boiler service, which means I need to get going with repairing the office floor after its tile tenting.
I have lunch with my partner before she goes to see her mother, whose birthday is tomorrow, and then I put washing in and review the garden camera for sightings of the hedgehog. The food has been going from the hog canteen, so I am hoping to see images of the hog fit and well. I review the pictures, not a single one of the hedgehog. There are the usual local cats, wood pidgeons and squirrel, even a large slug but no hedgehog. This is a mystery. If mice or rats were going into eat the food the camera would definitely pick them up, it has done before. My only conclusion is that I have a Ninja Hedgehog schooled in the arts. Perhaps a Buddhist Shoa Lin hog. Anyway, from now on the hog is called “Ninja”. I re-calibrate the camera to take video as well as pictures and return it to the garden but in a new vantage point. I refill the food bowl in the canteen and a leave it to get on with its observation. I will see how things go tomorrow.
It’s time to train. I go to the garage and set myself up on the rower. Back to my usual resistance level today and a 45-minute session as I did not train yesterday. I manage to keep an even rhythm during the session and end up quite pleased with the session.
Post session I rest, drink and record the figures. The evening begins with tea, bringing in the washing and I start to draft the blog. There is football to watch tonight and also the excellent series Shetland. So, despite what feels like a busy day I am accruing a “to do” list for the next few days, however I hope to swim tomorrow.
