The best time of day will be in a few minutes' time..? 2026 3 30

when I take my first work out of the new day...

Today leaving my blog open to see whether anyone gets tempted to visit it, before later I write more..?
Today the person I met first was the man who has what used to be the town's "Alko" given over today to a clothes store and cafe: walking his dog a medium sized brown coloured exceptionally I greeted it in a half-hearted attempt to befriend it when I dare say it was taken aback because on so many former encounters I have avoided being friendly because of the attitude of its master, but today's encounter maybe a turning point?
Next was a lady visitor to our shared swim hut, a lady who in the last couple of years became a member of our walking club but whose name I still haven't got to retain in my poor memory for such things.
Leaving the "kope" after my swim sea temperature -0.5 degC, I took the path to skirt the East Harbour when my next encounter was with this lady branishing her hand held camera boasting a heavy telephoto lens she was pointing in fron of her towards the ground when she invited me to share her objective in the this earless seal lying in a most comfortable nest of gflattened grasses, in Finnish "Kuutti" reknown for being born betweenMarch and April in the Finnish archepelago. It would lay there some time still she confided until it was full changed colour from its former white colour when it too would repair to the sea.
Next I ran into some pply in the K-Halli Supermarket. First at the grocery stalls Rolle, a guy, an ex-colleague from the same company which used to employ the two of us: he retired 4 years from age 64, whilst I retired in what will be 18 years aged almost 69 in 2008. One of the few men I know who married a woman much older than he when I believe the union remained without children, she perhaps having children from a previous union with a much younger man. Always good for a bit of crack with Rolle today about his swiming exploits in a wet suit summer and winter (below the ice), when he extended the list of local wild life and his running across otters and lynxes, etc.
Then at the check-out a young lady who was a former friend of my first daughter-in-law when they were in their 20's around the time our first grandchildren were born in the early 1990's. So now I could acquaint her and her older companion about the weddding last summer of our eldest granddaughter to an Englishman, when we had an extensive delagation vist from UK, which I no longer get to visit since Covid 19 struck in 2020.
Then finally as i was leaving passing another friend in Nisse, a fellow daily swimmer most probably on his cycle homeward bound after his dip in the sea.

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