… with having a really good lie-in is that when you eventually go to bed, it takes a positive age to go off to sleep.
And so it was last night. It was well-gone midnight before I went to bed, and then I was tossing and turning around for quite some considerable time.
Mind you, once the alarm went off I was pretty much wide awake, although it did take some considerable time for me to leave my stinking pit.
After breakfast, I sat down and set to work.
First job was to go through a mountain of photos. The other laptop that I had been using was struggling to cope because the quality of the screen and the graphics card was not up to much and I couldn’t see properly what I was doing. And it’s a whole wide world of difference with the graphics card in this computer and the new IPS screen.
Second thing, that took all of the morning and quite a bit of the afternoon was to download a huge load of *.zip and *.rar files for the accessories for the 3D program that I use.
Luckily, I’d bookmarked most of them so I could track them down fairly quickly. Although downloading them and unpacking them took all of the time. And it’s amazing how much I had forgotten that I had.
Cheese and salad butties for lunch. I’ve finished off the hummus and there’s some cheese opened from when I was in Belgium last week. One of these days I’ll make some more, and have a mega-cook-in too because I have some puff pastry that needs using. I fancy an leek and potato pie, and I might even put some tofu in it too – except that I don’t have any.
There was a terrific wind blowing this afternoon. Not as much as yesterday morning though but impressive all the same.
We had a really impressive array of waves smashing onto the harbour wall.
The power of the sea is really astonishing and if only people would put more effort into harnessing it, the world’s energy problem would be solved without any difficulties.
It was a beautiful day for photography too.
The air was quite clear and you could see for miles down the coast. Montmartin-sur-Mer and the Sienne estuary stood out really clearly today so I took a few photos.
I cropped and enlarged a few selections and you can see them below.
Tea tonight was vegan sausages and vegetables, all covered in vegan cheese sauce. It was delicious. Especially when followed by pineapple and coconut-flavoured soya cream.
This evening’s walk around the walls was really nice.
The wind had dropped, it was warmer than it ought to be this time of the year and the sky on the horizon was quite clear. The lights of Jersey stood out quite clearly.
The way things are going, I’m going to have to buy a better camera with a more responsive ISO as well as a decent attachment for the tripod.
But even so, the Nikon D5000
Now that they have installed some illumination in the Place Maurice Marland it’s producing some really nice effects.
I shall have to do some more of this when I have the time.
The fibre-optic cable works are continuing.
We saw them the other day digging a hole on the corner of the rue Notre Dame and the rue de l’Auditoire. Now, they have put an inspection hatch in there, ready for the cabling.
While I was out there I nearly flattened another pedestrian, and I also met a new cat, a youngish short-haired black one that I had never seen before. And talking to the cat made me realise that I haven’t spoken to a single person today.
And in other news, there are reports coming in that British travellers arriving at Dusseldorf Airport from the UK were pushed into the “non-EU” lane.
Things are beginning to bite, and we aren’t even at B-Day yet.
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