Friday and I wake up in a strange state after last nights late night, but I do surface sufficiently to do my vitals and hold a sensible conversation with my partner. My partner goes off to the gym for more “bobbing about in the water” while I have a breakfast and my morning meds. I send a few messages and leave a few for people regarding my clothing order but then it is time to train. I go to the garage and stare at the monitor, for the first time in a long time the temperature has dropped below 10 degree. I decide a short sharp 30 minute session is all I can manage today, so I set myself up and get going at a reasonable pace. By the end of time I have gone through my 6 kilometre standard and feeling drained.

I rowed the majority of the session to Augustin Hadelich playing Mendelssohn’s violin concerto number 2 in E, which was very pleasant and helped keep me rowing a good pace. It was a BBC 3 concert. When he finished he came out and to my surprise he played Orange Blossom Special and old Blue Grass tune that I first heard played by Flatt and Scruggs back in the sixties. There was a time I could play the opening on the guitar so hearing a world class violinist go for it as an encore was surprising. The contrast between the two is amazing. I give you both versions below. Listen and be amazed.

I get a call from the clothing merchant in response to my enquiry abut my order and it appears the Amazon server failure has affected the payment so I go back into my account and redo the order. This time money comes out of my account and everything goes through. By this time my partner is back from the gym and after a brief lunch we go to the garden centre to ensure that we have food for the weekend. It is throwing it down with rain so it is a quick dash there and back ending in a sit on the sofa and a recovery nap.

The evening rolls in, I change a light bulb and then start to draft the blog before a Pizza tea and a TV rugby match. I am tired and take my meds and get to bed looking forward to tomorrows treat of a visit to the theatre to see Fisherman’s Friend, which hopefully will be a jolly night.