This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A complete rainbow arching across a small valley, grass and shrubs in the foreground, the ocean in the background

We went to a birthday party on the south side of the island last night. It was an enjoyable evening. Just before sunset a whale and her calf swam by the house where the party was being held. As if to send birthday wishes, the calf waved it tail in the air a few times as it went by.

A collection of lit candles and string lights set on a vibrant, multicolored textile surface outdoors at dusk, with silhouettes of palm trees in the background.

A silhouette of a tree against a twilight sky, with small lit lanterns along a garden path leading to a house with illuminated windows in the background.

Sunset at a beach with silhouettes of palm trees, a colorful sky, and green bush in the foreground.

Resting and warming my feet on rocks around a campfire, at night.

Unbeknownst to the friend who text me this, I was just about to walk into the chemist (pharmacy) when he sent me this.

I miss Adams' writing.

Space … is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

I have a number of photographs from our trip to Portugal last year which never saw the light of day because of me catching pneumonia and becoming so unwell. So I am revisiting a Sunday day trip to the town of Beja. During our walk around town we came across some interesting graffiti. Here is a selection of it.

Graffiti art on a door depicting an evolutionary transition from an ape holding a spear to a modern human wearing a beanie and Crocs, while holding a fast-food sandwich and with his hand over his genitals

A vibrant painting on an outside wall of three giraffes against a pink background with silhouettes of tree

Street art mural depicting a topless woman with red hair and eyeglasses lounging on a lifebuoy in water, accompanied by a white cat, with stylized faces of two people in the clouds above. The artwork is framed by a real door

A colorful mural painted on a door depicting a tower of stylized skulls with a background of leaves and two large sets of eyes above. A pink uterus-like shape with a red heart hangs in the center between the eyes, and cut apples on either side

Today was a WatchTo5K … actually I suppose that it still is? The thing is that it has been raining pretty much consistently since yesterday evening. Everything from light drizzle to torrential rain. This morning has been more of the latter. The roads are turning into rivers and there is localized flooding. I don’t mind getting wet while running, but setting off into hard rain does not feel like an enjoyable experience. I want to improve my fitness, not try to prove my strength against any sort of weather.

I have an appointment later. If the weather has eased by then, I’ll take a run. Otherwise there will be no run today, and I’ll resume tomorrow (before the idea starts to creep into my mind to skip the program 😉).

I’ve watched the first two episodes of Masters of the Air on TV+. I probably should have done this in the first episode, but for the second episode I turned on subtitles as in places I was struggling to understand what was being said. I notice this more often these days in films and series on streaming services, sound feels more muffled in places.

I’m pretty sure, or would like to think that it is not aging ears. Having read similar comments elsewhere, I wonder if there have been changes in filming practices, or more specifically sound recording?

I’ve just completed my first run of the third week of the WatchTo5K program. This was the hardest so far - I wonder how many times I will be saying that before this training is over?! A couple of longer runs in the middle of the walk/run sequence (and the heat didn’t help). I still find it hard to believe that I’ll be running 5K in seven weeks, but I’m sticking with it. 🏃‍♂️

📱Well I finally decided to reinstall a cover on my phone. I'd like it to last another year or so, at least, and don't know if I can trust myself not to drop it.

📱Well I finally decided to reinstall a cover on my phone. I’d like it to last another year or so, at least, and don’t know if I can trust myself not to drop it.

Finished reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚

This is the third book that I have read by Claire Keegan, an author who I had not heard of a few months ago. Each time brought into a story, taken through a snap shot, and then we leave the characters to the larger story. But that snap shot contains so much.

Highly recommended.

We are really getting a cornucopia of weather conditions at the moment. Days of still weather, clear skies and sun, were replaced with two days of howling winds, though clear skies as well. Now the clouds have come in so thick that all views are obscured and it has just started raining.

Grass in the foreground, a shrubbery bed behind that, and a dark misty sky above it all

🍃 I feel as though we have been in a wind tunnel all day, maybe the last two days?! I hope that we wake up to a calmer day tomorrow.

🍃 I feel as though we have been in a wind tunnel all day, maybe the last two days?! I hope that we wake up to a calmer day tomorrow.

Cartoon drawing of a man in a tracksuit running, a headband on his head, and writing below saying that week 2 of couch to 5K program has been completed

Well that is week two of the Watch to 5K completed. This week was harder than the second, though I am also seeing progress. I am running a little further than the previous week. At the moment I am finding it hard to imagine that I’ll be running 5K by the end of the program. However, there are still seven weeks to go, and it is a gradual build up each week. Onwards and upwards 🏃🏼

🏃‍♀️ I don’t think that my run today will be much fun, though it will be a challenge. Winds are currently gusting 20/25mph, with a forecast for stronger winds.

🏃‍♀️ I don’t think that my run today will be much fun, though it will be a challenge. Winds are currently gusting 20/25mph, with a forecast for stronger winds.

I find myself wondering if it is possible to somehow create an RSS feed for a website that I would like to follow, but that does not a feed?

The dawn chorus yesterday morning.

Dawn, a graduated sky going from yellows on the horizon to dark blues higher up. In the foreground is a silhouette of a bush, and silhouettes of tropical trees and other shrubs appearing over the bush

I have not used the Maui bus service for a good number of years now, but it seems that come March 1 I will qualify for a free travel. According to the article below, I will come under the 55 and older category (I am 60). So that leaves me with something to reflect on!

Maui fare-free bus transit program begins March 1

This morning’s Watch to 5K run was the hardest so far. The fifth in the program, the second of the second week, I think that my calf muscles were tightening up with this new regime that I am putting them through.

I’m still pleased that I am on this program, and look forward to see how I progress.