just the battery

awake in the night, but stay still, breath evenly.
There is light from the garden lights coming in through the window, like moonlight. Small glas

And then there is light from the sun, it is daytime now, seven in the morning. Get up to make coffee. Eat a plain biscuit from a package of them left on the work top of the kitchen. The mess is the same as every day.
Take the two little pills, half of one and one of the other. Pick up the blood pressure measuring device, take it to the living room. The noise that it makes pumpung up it's arm ring is loud enough to wake the wife sleeping in the bedroom. Wrap the device around the arm, start it. It shows a blood pressure that is far too high. Try it again, now the blood pressure is far too low. This machine is not a good machine.  Read the instructions yet again, and replace the device on the arm more carefully. The two measurements made now are both within the realms of possibility. The instrument is dodgy, as the British would say.

Make the coffee, take the cup to the sitting room. See the clock on the wall, the little Bulle clock. It is standing still. Take it down from the wall, remove the battery. The simple way to check the battery is probably just to replace it with a new one. Get a new battery from the bedroom, insert it into the container on the back of the clock's casing and rehang the clock. Give the pendulum a push, and let it swing.

Sit down to read the news, come to the conclusion that the most powerful man in the world must have been a spoilt brat as a toddler. And the British do not know how to behave. Currently, the French are not saying much. And Germany is having problems with helicopters, at least the German military is.
There are so many mistakes being made.

Half an hour later the clock is still running.
Probably was just the battery.