DVT DAY 145

Today was a shed day, so after a breakfast of noodles I made way down to the shed and settled in. Today I resurrected my poetry project and spent hours typing a bunch of poems into the laptop. I’ve unfortunately reached the ones I wrote when I was twenty one or younger. Some nice ideas but very young in accomplishment. I got as far as those that had been dated or could be located between two dates. My only option was to number them all in sequence from the start of the file as I was pretty obsessive about filing my poems right from the start, so I am confident they are in date order. So after some basic sums I find I have got 76 to go. I figure if a work at it steady a bit at a time I will have it done by the end of August. Then the fun starts as I will need to continue the numbering to the other poems I already have on the laptop. I clearly moved from typewriter to computer at some point, all I have to do is merge them and hey presto the guts of the book are ready. Apart for a pit stop ham sandwich I kept at it all day till about four o’clock when it was time to clamber up onto the exercise bike and grind out 40 minutes of pain in sweltering heat. If I had waited an hour I could have trained through the thunderstorm that hit us early evening. I just feel sorry for the Tesco delivery person who presumably is out delivering in this appalling weather. So we eat dinner and wait the arrival of Tesco before watching the final two episodes of series one of Strange Things and perhaps test run the mended sewing machine.