AS GOOD AS IT GETS PHASE DAY 84

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A.G.A.I.G DAY 84

Well this has been a day, talk about light and shade. So there I was up and breakfasted by 9 o’clock and checking my emails. A colleague had circulated some materials she had designed for a programme that the team are running currently. As part of the materials there was a blog about the Enabling Environment Standard of Structure. My colleague’s cat Tiny has featured before in her blog but today I laughed out loud at the schedule which had been designed by her host. I leave you to judge if Tiny had found a good structure to get through lockdown.

Tiny the cat’s lockdown schedule.

After dealing with my work emails I surfed the net and bought an exercise bike and some bits and pieces. I am determined to shift this weight and if I have a bike then I can get into a routine and train. Having been a gym rat I need something that gets me moving, I am appalled at the way my legs have stiffened up and how I am siting here with a shape that I was, and still am, critical of in others. Right I have made the move and now I have to find somewhere to put it and of course the answer is “the shed”. Sounds simple doesn’t it but what it actually entailed was emptying the shed that had been living under a tarpaulin waiting to be re roofed and re organising the shed so it could accommodate a couple of cane chairs. Simples! Except that it meant I had to re felt the roof and as life is not simple it also meant I had to replace a part of the summer house back wall due to the shed having leaned against it and damaged it. So I emptied out everything from the shed and then had to elbow it over a few inches to get it off the back of the summer house.

So much stuff in such a small shed.
At last the shed is empty

Having done that I need to replace a plan in the back wall of the summer house, I just happen to have some in the garage. So I manage to get the panel screwed into place and then of course it needed to be painted.  There I am up on the rickety shed roof trying to paint the new plank and what happens, a thunderstorm is what happens, so I get soaked and have to seek shelter. It passes and I kick on. Once the summer house is sorted I start on the shed roof. Hours of cleaning and reworking the new roof felt and I get it done and I’m tired. But in the middle of this the internet goes down spectacularly.

Roof patching done.

The systems come up with a hacking warning and the hub begins to flash purple. So I start to do the BT thing and try to restart the hub, no joy. My partner then calls me to the front door and there was our telephone line draped across the front garden. Across the road the jolly BT folk are up a pole and all the lines from it are down. So that explains the loss off WiFi. Nothing to be done except get back to my shed fixing.

The cause of my lost WiFi
The tell tale sign that all is not well in BT land

I finally get to the putting everything back in the shed and finding room for the chairs so that the bike (remember the bike?) can go in the summer house. I’m finally done and it’s time to eat, and as I go back to the house my partner gives me the good news that the WiFi is back. Yippee Amazon is my shop again, that was a close shave.

Job done and I’m knackered

So I have had dinner and writing the blog before I have a bath to get rid of the aches that I can feel coming on and then it will be back to slaying Danes and Saxons post Alfred the Great.