Beautiful Day

It’s an unwritten rule in this place that during Saturday and Sunday you don’t bang around and make loud noises too early in the morning. People are still asleep. So today I have to wait till 10 am before starting to roll out the ever reliable electric mower to do what it’s meant for – mow the lawn - finally after weeks of waiting for the weather window. This mower, bought in 1996, is still working admirably except for a few bits of metal and plastic on the sides that have fallen off.

The outside temperature was just nice at 10 deg. C then. The last time the grass got tendered was in November last year. Looking at the amount of heap collected, the grass has not grown a lot, stunted by the cold weather. It has been bitterly cold this Winter but still hotter than a normal average, as everybody telling us so. Somebody out there still wants to make a point about global warming theory and to make the point claim this and that Summer was the hottest ever, the Winter was the warmest since record began and so on. What ever it is last winter to me was very cold, subzero temperatures on a number of occasion with lakes frozen at times.

Back to the leaves, remember, leaves and organic stuffs have to be put into a big bin which are then collected once a week like normal garbage. No open burning is allowed. This is such a no brainer and an obvious thing to do. The collected organics are transformed to compost on an industrial scale and no open burning means the neighbourhood is not choked with smoke whatsoever.

After all the effort put this morning, it’s nice to see the compound now clean and tidy. The goal post is also back in shape after being wrecked by the strong winds during the last few weeks. Together with Faris, we had a bit of kicking the ball after that. Temperature rose to about 15 Deg. C by noon. Faris and Fiz later decided to do some jogging.

By the way, there was a famous run going on in the City Centre today. It’s called City-Pier-City run which involved running 5 km from the City centre to the beach at Scheveningen and back to the city. Somebody who joined the run today told me that 19,000 people turned up and participated.
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