The pool water has returned to its crystalline clarity in our local pool, but one does wonder just what “product” we have been swimming in that has been used to banish yesterday’s murkiness. But that way madness lies, and life is too short etc etc to worry (overmuch) about such things.
In a sign of technological spitefulness
because of my forced missed swim yesterday, my smartwatch refused to record
accurately my latest swim, only giving about half the meters of each length,
but my internal length counter guided me to a satisfactory completion where, in spite of the evidence of the resentful watch, I think that I more than exceeded my usual lengths.
The local pool is one of the only places in Castelldefels that can supply me with a decent cup of tea (a mixture of Earl Grey and English Breakfast) which is my reward for completing my swim. Today, they had run out!
I had been prepared for this awful eventuality and took an orange juice as an alternative, but an orange juice topped up with ice cold Cava. I have now entered that select grouping of ageing men who have alcohol first thing in the morning! Well, not really, the orange juice was the major partner in the drink and freshly pressed too, so the Cava was more of jeu d’esprit than anything else. Though one I could easily get used to!
I am beginning to understand that the cost of living I going to be a major problem. Even casual shops are now costing over 100 euros. I can still recall my parents have a serious discussion about finance after the weekly shop had exceeded five quid for the first time! That truly was another age.
It is difficult to think about winter when all available fans are on full strength to make the heat bearable, but with the rising cost of electricity and gas, coupled with the rise in general prices means that our minds are going to be concentrated. Given the situations in our respective countries, I feel more secure in my adopted home of Catalonia than I would in the Conservative ridden dystopia that Britain has become. Let us see how the future works out!
