… a decent night’s sleep and had yet another weird dream. This time I was in the USA and, driving along a road, a came to a modern concrete bow-arch bridge. But it was so steep that the car wouldn’t climb up the road, so I had to leave the car at the bottom and climb up myself – and I DO mean climb, as if I were mountaineering up the roadway, and it wasn’t ‘arf difficult seeing as I was carrying my laptop with me.

On the other side of the bridge was a queue of traffic waiting to cross to the side from which I had come, and when the traffic lights turned green (which took an hour, so I l learned), they all streamed off over the bridge. I wasn’t sure what to do but in the end, seeing a lorry hesitate about at the lights, I flagged him down and climbed in to take me back to my car. And the driver gave some grief to his passenger, sitting in the back of the cab, about “see what happens when you mess me around when I’m trying to driv”. From then on, I met two girls that I knew, a short one with short black hair and a thinner, slightly taller one with long mousy blond hair in a pony tail, whose birthday it was that day.

Yes, a long time since I’ve had a dream like that. I must be starting to feel better.

So after a leisurely breakfast I had a morning off, not doing very much, and then went off to pick up the boxes that I won on Freecycle. From there I went to pay my respects to Marianne, but there I met with something of a disappointment. There seems to be a burial planned for the plot next to hers for tomorrow and they’ve been digging it out with a mini-digger. As a result, they’ve moved the temporary cross from over Marianne’s grave, all of the flowers and wreaths are disturbed, and the soil has subsided from over the top. It wasn’t very agreeable, I can tell you, and I wish that I had never been.

Back here, I’ve now started boxing things up, seeing as how I have boxes to put things in. That makes a difference. I’va also found another cheapo video camera here – on that works off AA batteries and SD cards. It doesn’t look like much in the way of quality but the AA batteries and SD card give it the versatility that I would like. I maight have a play with this.

It’s Sunday, of course, and so it’s pizza and garlic bread night. But I’ve also had a go at making a tarte aux patates – a potato pie. One of those roll-up pie bases with thinly-sliced potatoes, onions, garlic, black ground pepper and soya cream. I’ll let you know tomorrow night how it turns out.

As for posting comments, I’ve relaxed the restrictions a little so (hopefully) you can comment on the most recent postings. Give it a try and let me know how it works out.

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