Liz had cooked a giant cornish pasty full of a vegetable stuffing based on chick peas, lentils, onions, garlic and mustard. Together with roast vegetables, green mange-tout peas and a tomato sauce, it was absolutely delicious and I’ll have to try this at home.<\/p>\n
Pudding was a kind-of raspberry mousse on a speculoos base, and that was just as nice.<\/p>\n
And then Liz gave me a birthday present, and you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see what it is.<\/p>\n
Last night, as you will know, I went to bed fairly early. But there’s no point in going to bed early if you end up wide awake at 04:11, is there?<\/p>\n
The water heater switched off at 06:25 as usual (off-peak electricity ends at 06:30) – I heard that – but I must have gone to sleep at some point afterwards because I remember waking up at 08:25.<\/p>\n
08:45 was when I hauled myself out of bed.<\/p>\n
We had the usual morning routine, and then I spent most of the morning making a start on classifying the photos of September 2018.<\/p>\n
Only 1730 of them from when I was in the High Arctic and I reckon that I’ve done about 90 of them. It’s not just a case of classifying them but I need to work out where I was at the time and to make brief notes of some of them where necessary.<\/p>\n
As you can see this is going to be a very long job. Especially as I’m stuck because I can’t remember the name of the derelict US Air Force base where we inspected the military installations and saw the Greenland ice cap.<\/p>\n
Even half an hour’s searching on the internet couldn’t come up with the name because it’s formerly a restricted site so it would never have been published back in the old days.<\/p>\n
After lunch I carried on for a while and then headed off to Roncey.<\/p>\n
And on the way, I ground to a halt because something caught my eye. It’s a case of “get thee behind me, Satan” because there’s a nice field with a long tree-lined drive that leads to a stately home, and this field has been divided into building plots that are up for sale.<\/p>\n
A nice little two-bedroomed bungalow on one of these would be beautiful, but really given my state of health and my life expectancy, it would be a total folly.<\/p>\n
I shall have to put that idea out of my head. And pretty quickly too!<\/p>\n
