Wednesday, 22 October 2008

When I Grow Up

It has been so wonderful swimming up and down in the warmer months that the determination to keep going in the winter is redoubled. The problem is that quotes for covering the pool run from euros 7-10,000 to ten times that amount (including some extra electricity generating solar panels to give the temperature a boost.)

I do hate having to learn something completely new, and this stuff about heat and energy and condensation and ventilation is really hard. In music there are pieces that are said to lie under the performer's hand. Even with little familiarity they emerge formed, phrased, enchanting. That is true of other understandings.

I was not born to be an engineer. But it is interesting to find that out. I knew always that being a doctor would be horrid. A poet, now - if only.

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