21st July 2023
I was on the bike early hoping to buy some eggs from our nearby source. I set the kettle to boil, hoping it would be done by the time I got back. I set the controls on the bike to Turbo and set off. I was up to twenty miles an hour in no time, dodging the joggers and other bike riders. I reached the house in no time, but there were no eggs outside. My only option was to go to the corner shop which was in the opposite direction. Back on the bike, Turbo engaged and off. I sped round a corner and missed a runner by inches. I got to the shop, and panting heavily I found the organic eggs.
Staggering to the register, I handed over some crumpled notes and placed the carton in my saddle bag, and back home. I got into the door, just as the kettle was boiling, gosh it takes a long time to boil anything over here.
After breakfast on the deck we took a proper bike ride, to collect another Buddha. Kelli found this little green bald man quite close. We found the object wrapped in a plastic bag at an address with a Jesus poster in the garden, so with two religious characters in one house, one had to go, sorry Buddha.
I had to seal and finish eight drawer fronts ready for the new handles that were arriving in the late afternoon.
When they arrived they didn’t fit. The hole centres should have been two and a half inches but the ones that were delivered were two and three quarter inches. The specifications on Amazon stated two and a half, so it looks like some redrilling to do.
In the evening we met up with a couple of neighbours to go to a community get together, set up by a lady on the next street over. It was a chance to meet other people. It was interesting, I was a little left out at first, but as soon as they realised I was English all the differences between Americans and the Brits came out. We didn’t stay too long, Kelli needed time to chill our at home after a busy day.
Another Lifetime to go 