… today, and that is of course a Day of Rest
So despite the very late night – about 02:30 when I went to bed – I was wide awake and covered in sweat with this fever thing round about 08:40. That was a shame. I’d been off on a voyage somewhere but I can’t remember anything about it now, totally disappeared from my memory which was a shame.
But I must have gone back to sleep afterwards for not very long because I was on a coach with two guys one of whom was Bill. We were sitting near the back and someone came along and put the vacuum cleaner in my hand “it’s your turn to vacuum up”. So I started to vacuum up but the machine was set on a wet wash thing so there was water going everywhere. But that was a good thing because on the rug that was there was all kinds of squashed tomato sauce with onion from a meal and I remembered that I had dropped something on the floor when I was sitting at that table a few days ago but no-one had cleaned up the coash. So I was vacuuming it with this wet-wash thing, around my keys that were on the floor and gradually working my way down the coach towards the front, vacuuming around where all of the people were sitting. Some said that we had been on the coach for three weeks and no-one had ever done that. I explained that I used to be a coach driver and used to do this kind of thing when I was driving coaches. Gradually working my way down the front and all of a sudden a whole pile of people boarded so it was rather confusing trying to do the vacuuming in that situation – I couldn’t do very much. The coach set off, went for 100 yards or so to a “T” junction, turned left and pulled in immediately on the right where a group of young people off our coach were waiting. Everyone started to moan about it – “why couldn’t they have walked up here (to where everyone else had boarded) and done this and done that?”
So with a rude awakening like that, it was something of a very short day today.
Not too short to attack the dictaphone notes and transcribe seven of those. That’s reduced the backlog somewhat, but there’s still 60-odd to go. It’s amazing just how quickly things back up when you are unwell.
Part of the first dream that I had forgotten came back to me later. I’d been in the post office with this tiny letter about 10mmx30mm that needed to be posted. I asked about a stamp and the woman replied that the postage was included in the money that I had just paid. I asked how they would know that postage would be paid, to which she went and too out a small postage stamp. But there was no room on the envelope for it so she ingeniously made an envelope out of to post-it notes stuck back-to-back with my envelope in between. Meanwhile I’d been looking at another letter that I needed to post. It was to either the water company or the electric company in Belgium complaining about a surplus charge and showing all of my calculations about how it’s all wrong, but I noticed that I had written it in English with a note “sorry but I have lost my French” – something that completely surprised me. I realised that I couldn’t send it at all like that and I would have to take it back, write it out in French and send it once that had been done.
Apart from that I had a little quiet Sunday relax without doing too much, and then went off out for a walk round about 15:00. It’s the Artists’ Fair today when all of the local painters exhibit their wares for sale.
And while the rices (those items that were priced, that is – many of them are not) were slightly more reasonable this year, there was still nothing that grabbed my attention
But it really does annoy me when people don’t fix their prices to their goods on sale. It’s as if they fix the prices depending on how well you are dressed and how well you speak, rather than them putting a value on their works.
While I was gazing over the town walls, a parade of about a dozen historic vehicles drove past below. And so I went to track them down.
Much to my surprise I managed to find them and I took some photos. Tomorrow, if I have time, I’ll post a few pics of them.
The door to the Eglise Notre Dame de Cap Lihou was open so I went inside to try out the low-light capabilities of the new Nikon D500 and I’ll post the results in due course.
Tea was another excellent example of a vegan pizza and then I went for a nice walk around the headland in the dusk.
So now I’m off to bed. Tomorrow I’m on my travels again and I need to be on form.
