… went past my window this afternoon.
And that was something of a surprise because I live on the first floor about 25 feet above the ground.
But it was no mystery when I went out to see what was going on.
There’s a cherry-picker out at the back with two men in attendance, looking at the guttering and the corner of the roof on the Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs next door.
My guess is that the vicious winds that we’ve been having over the past couple of months have dislodged something important and now is the time to fix things.
What was a mystery was how I managed to forget completely and totally where I had been during the night. When the first alarm went off I could remember it but in the panic to be out of bed before the second alarm went off, well, that was that I’m afraid.
We had the usual slow start to the morning and while I was waiting for the medication to work I attacked the European Photograph Mountain for an hour or so and freed off another few GB of memory space on there. If I keep up like this, the disk will be empty.
A little later I went for my Thursday shower and general clean-up. And having done that, I hit the streets.
My perambulations took me down to the harbour of course, and there I just missed the raising of the drawbridge or whatever they do to it.
And we have a new ship in port, and I’ll have to make further enquiries about this one because it looks extremely interesting, having a van the size of Caliburn anchored to the deck.
Here she is; just joining the queue to leave port. I wasn’t early enough to see her when she was tied up.
With not having the telephoto lens with me, and being too far away to take a decent shot, I had to make the best of the job that I could.
I couldn’t read her name correctly because of all of the equipment dangling over the stern, but it looks as if she’s called La Grande Ancre out of Cherbourg.
There’s no reference of her on the internet that I’ve been able to find and she’s not in the port records either. So I’m not quite sure how I’m going to track her down.
I carried on to LIDL as usual and didn’t buy anything special. But being fed up of soup right now, I’ve bought some proper bread and lettuce and I’ll be making myself some butties for the foreseeable future. And much to my surprise, at lunchtime I found that I could actually eat them. It took a while, but there we are.
This afternoon I was feeling the strain of my walk. I’d made it all the way up the hill without stopping which is quite a feat and I knew that I would pay for that. But it didn’t stop me going out for my afternoon walk in the sunshine. It really was nice, although a bit windy.
Back here, I crashed out yet again, which is no surprise of course. And then I had a session on the guitar.
Tea was a stuffed pepper which was really nice of course, and then my evening walk. And 116% of my daily activity too, which is good news.
And so maybe an early night. And if I go anywhere during the night I’ll try to remember where it was.
