After we’d had our usual morning coffee in bed, I said to Don, “let’s go for a little ride” and so we did.

Exercise? Check!

Rather shorter than the usual route – quite a bit hillier, which definitely got the heart going.

I’m starting to get really fond of this bike riding caper.

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I took that good hard look at the garden and did a little re-potting and re-arranging.

Not the best pix, but looks infinitely better than it did! And ready for the (hopefully) cold weather.

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Not on the list was buying giant hooks to hang our bikes on the wall of the garage – it has made a HUGE difference to the tidiness level in there.

[imagine pix of bikes hanging to wall]

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And War and Peace … well, I finished what in my edition is part 1, chapter 5: Natasha and Boris and am about to start chapter 6: Anna Mikhaylovna and Boris go to the dying Count Bezukhov’s as soon as I hit post on this.

I was loving this when I started reading it, but suddenly one afternoon found the characters really quite awful and stopped reading for a couple of months. And worse, avoided reading anything else. I’ll push on a bit longer, but will abandon if I start hoping for everyone to die right this minute.

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Tomorrow is the last day of my holiday <sob>. I will take corey-the-bike for his first service; attach the knobs to the coat rack; finish the plant stand.