Staff parking

When I got out of hospital and finished convalescence, I had a number of visits to Beaumont Hospital for follow-on check-ups and visits to the dietician and blood tests and checkups and all that. For quite a lot of this time there was buidling work going on behind a hoarding, without any indication of what was being built.

When I began cardiac rehab I discovered that it had all been about clearing quite a large site, covering it in concrete, and marking it out for another bit of staff car parking. It's all rather sad looking, really, and desperately wasteful in terms of land usage. And yet there's something strangely attractive about the paved surface and the marked-out parking spaces and the rows of cars. Well, I think so anyway.

This was the second-last of my rehab sessions. The ten weeks actually ends on Friday, but I'm heading off to Berlin on Thursday so will miss the actual wind-up. We're down to four of the original six for these final few days. We thought that'd make things more intense, but actually it's just the same as it always has been in terms of time and effort.

The rest of the day was lazier than it should have been, even though I had last-minute work to do and going-away preparations to complete. Sure there's always tomorrow ...