Woke fairly early with headache which lasted all day, despite medication.
Spent the morning doing stuff in the house, including replying to my agent (which I later hand-delivered).
I went to buy bread and got a good 'yesterbake' deal from Thomas the Baker on Tang Hall Lane. I chatted with the guy who delivers the unsold bread and rolls etc to this shop, where it's sold for half price and two for one, so effectively quarter price. Anything still unsold after this goes to a dog biscuit manufacturer in Doncaster, I think he said.
On the way back I said hello to Jamie, who had 'news' for me... a tree had blown over in his garden overnight and he was busy chopping it up for me to take away! He also showed me his petrol chainsaw which he is thinking of selling; he showed me how it worked, which it did first time.... but then it refused to start again.
After lunch a BT Openreach van drew up and our next door neighbour explained that the cherry tree in our front garden had swayed around so much in the wind that it had pulled his phone line out, as the lines to his house and ours go through the tree's top branches. The good thing is that since the tree is ours, and the damage to our neighbour's line, he doesn't get charged for the repair. BUT if our wire comes off due to our tree, we'd get a large bill for the repair. So I got my big stepladder which reaches up to 9 metres, and spent over an hour carefully lopping back quite a few branches so there were none brushing up against either of the wires. Then I spent more time pruning these branches down into stove-length sticks and shreddable twigs. The smaller sticks went into a paper potato sack where they'll sit for a year or more to dry off.
I collected our youngest son, taking his bike down on my trailer, via my agent's house which is near the Steiner School.
In the evening I cycled to the York Open Studios event at Bar Lane Studios. My good friend Jonathan, who is the artist Dexter, was showing his work, as were dozens of other people..... I met loads of my friends and really enjoyed myself.
Came home via Freshways and brought back a trailer full of compostable goodies.
Aiming for another early night, as feeling ropey.
Spent the morning doing stuff in the house, including replying to my agent (which I later hand-delivered).
I went to buy bread and got a good 'yesterbake' deal from Thomas the Baker on Tang Hall Lane. I chatted with the guy who delivers the unsold bread and rolls etc to this shop, where it's sold for half price and two for one, so effectively quarter price. Anything still unsold after this goes to a dog biscuit manufacturer in Doncaster, I think he said.
On the way back I said hello to Jamie, who had 'news' for me... a tree had blown over in his garden overnight and he was busy chopping it up for me to take away! He also showed me his petrol chainsaw which he is thinking of selling; he showed me how it worked, which it did first time.... but then it refused to start again.
After lunch a BT Openreach van drew up and our next door neighbour explained that the cherry tree in our front garden had swayed around so much in the wind that it had pulled his phone line out, as the lines to his house and ours go through the tree's top branches. The good thing is that since the tree is ours, and the damage to our neighbour's line, he doesn't get charged for the repair. BUT if our wire comes off due to our tree, we'd get a large bill for the repair. So I got my big stepladder which reaches up to 9 metres, and spent over an hour carefully lopping back quite a few branches so there were none brushing up against either of the wires. Then I spent more time pruning these branches down into stove-length sticks and shreddable twigs. The smaller sticks went into a paper potato sack where they'll sit for a year or more to dry off.
I collected our youngest son, taking his bike down on my trailer, via my agent's house which is near the Steiner School.
In the evening I cycled to the York Open Studios event at Bar Lane Studios. My good friend Jonathan, who is the artist Dexter, was showing his work, as were dozens of other people..... I met loads of my friends and really enjoyed myself.
Came home via Freshways and brought back a trailer full of compostable goodies.
Aiming for another early night, as feeling ropey.
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