Thursday 30th October 2025

Work on the kitchen continues apace, though some days its not easy to see progress, but maybe in a week it'll be done.

Thursday was a bright and sunny day, beginning with a trip to the gym.

Not quite so early this time, but sitting down at the bike for ten past seven, and a ride round the moonscape of Crete.

Whilst cycling, my i pod/i phone music selection reached the end and begins again with the Mighty ASWAD.

I guess now I am doing so much phys, it takes about two weeks to go through the music library, ignoring the albums by Velvet Underground, Nico, Gorillaz, Skids.

I am trying to find an alternative, and will do in due course. But for the meantime, its same old, same old.

We leave at eight, and arrive back with Craig waiting to start. He'd just arrived so no worries.

Jools did a tip run with some of the waste from the new kitchen, and on the way back gets two breakfast baps from the van outside B&Q, which we eat sitting on the patio as it was warm enough in the morning sunshine.

The morning sunshine didn't last into the afternoon, so I retreat inside to carry on reading The Book of Dust.

Meanwhile Craig ploughs on getting the job done.

Breakfast was enough to last us to four, when we have breakfast, and so need no supper.

Though we do have peanuts and other snacks with a beer, just to tide us over.

I could have read to the end of the book, but save 250 pages for Friday. Bed at ten.