Day 3 of the bike
riding.
At least the chain did not come off today, so I count that
as a bit of a triumph. I also cycled up
the hill over the motorway which I really think must count for something! I can’t truthfully say that I am ‘getting
into’ cycling, but I am doing it with something approaching good grace. Unless it rains.
Tree destruction
I continue to watch the levelling of the area where the
trees used to be with some grief, mixed with fascination in watching the speed
and efficiency with which the workmen are effacing all traces of what used to
be there before. I may not like what
they have done, but they are doing it well!
What will
be a telling indication of the level of managerial competence is the way that
they put the lines in the space that they have now created for parking. In my experience few humans (including
myself) have the spatial and organizational imagination to paint a sequence of
parking lines that uses the available area to its full potential. Indeed my experience is that the almost
arbitrary spacing of the lines creates vindictive confusion and bitter
recrimination.
Perhaps
this car park will buck the trend in this country and they will actually give a
reasonable amount of space. For once.
Critical lunch
Lunch was eaten selflessly as an expedition to discover the
quality of food provided in the restaurant connected to the apart hotel that
some of our guests in October will be using.
In due
course an illustrated account of our meal will appear in Toni’s blog at http://catalunyaplacetoeat.blogspot.com.es
where other of our joint eating ventures are to be found.
The meal
was delicious and the glass of vermouth to start the meal was a welcome
touch. Still, details on Toni’s blog.
The inspiration
Toni heard, saw, hunted and killed the first mosquito of the
season. How the hell the thing survives
this early in the year is difficult to imagine – though the weather has been
fine and sunny. Indeed it has been so
good that I have had my first official sunbathing attempt. It didn’t last that long, but it did
happen. I trust that this will be first
of many tanning sessions so that I can get rid of my pallid skin colour! The hell with health, I need my vitamin D!
The Muse
Although I have a couple of poems which are refusing to come
together in anything like a form that I can regard as finished, or even as
things with a positive direction – my notes after my swim and during my cup of
tea translated into a poem with a speed which left me breathless. The finished poem may be found at http://smrnewpoems.blogspot.com.es
and is available for comment!
