Fixed!

The VM technician arrived at 9.30, ringing me first to say he’d be 10 minutes. Good service. He soon figured out what the problem was - a cable not working any more. He thinks that it’s possibly because it’s all in a cupboard, and may have overheated over time. But that was the main attraction of this set up - all the gubbings could be hidden away.

I did my biking. Both the HIIT 10 minute killer, and a longer session, just pedalling, while I watched ‘Rip Off Britain’. A good report on the joys or otherwise, of heat pumps.

JR went to the supermarket for essentials (coffee, chocolate yoghurt, fruit). Archie and I set off for a walk. First a bus ride. We then walked up to the castle esplanade, then down all the hundreds of steps to the Grassmarket. Archie is very good - just goes slowly and keeps stopping, while I hold on to the bannister at all times.

After a sit down in the Grassmarket we then struggled up the Vennel steps. Why is there invariably someone trying to take a photo from the top of the steps when I’m taking forever to plod up them and spoiling their photo…

An admirable step count today - 8,342 - but it includes about 3,000 going on the bike, which some would say is cheating, but I’ll take them.

A vegetable Pad Thai for tea tonight, with chicken as an added extra. JR is very keen to eat more protein.  It was very tasty. And it was complicated - I used just about every pot, pan, dish and utensil available, but then, the chef doesn’t do the washing up…