DVT DAYS 170 & 171
Yesterday (Wednesday) was a strange and bitty day. I found my contactless bank card had lost its powers like a Hero at a full eclipse. Apparently I can make it revive by chip and pining something, so at some point I shall be off to the shops. Apart from a quick trip to the local coop I popped into the chemist to pick up my new dosage of one of my drugs and Mondays injection, yep its that time of month again. No one turned up to the open forum at lunchtime so I chatted to the co host and talked about how we move on from this situation. The afternoon was spent in a zoom meeting discussing contract types and tax status, I came away with home work to do. The evening was a quiet one with yet more Heroes to watch and then a boiler cupboard to clear out for the plumber in the morning.
Today started with a coffee and an unexpected phone call from a friend asking how I am. A man turned up to tell us what we need to move in order for us to have the antiquated heating system to be re-piped. We walked around the house with me making notes about what we will need to move in order for them to do the work. By the time we finished the walk I had pages of notes and my back ached at the thought of all the stuff we were going to have to move. It is going to be a challenging weekend moving all the stuff. During the walk of Sisyphus, I got a phone call from the plumber desperate to rearrange our work till tomorrow as he had an emergency call from a woman who had water pouring through her ceiling. No other choice than to agree to a rearranged appointment for tomorrow morning. We waved Sisyphus off and returned to our disappointment about the plumber not turning up. I returned to my chores which included replacing the thermostat in the immersion heater. That was an interesting experience, as I think I found that the last plumber who installed the new tank and heater miss installed the thermostat, which accounted for why it kept tripping out. Anyway, I go the new thermostat installed in time to host my open forum session in to the afternoon. An interesting session, but shorter than normal as our participant had to leave early. I returned to finish off the thermostat job. Then it was the shed for me and a long exercise bike ride. I needed to spend some energy and work he knots in my muscles out. The ride made he shower afterwards all the more appreciated. I cooked dinner and settled down to writ the blog. I have a lot of Marshal McLuhan to read and Heroes to watch.
All this seems mundane and prosaic butit is how life is at the moment as we get set to make the house comfortable for the winter. I sense that people all over the country are doing the same. It is a form of hibernation to avoid the perils of COVID. Winter is coming and its not the dragon and winter walker type of winter that’s coming.
