… “nobody we know”. I may well have been off on my travels last night but none of my favourite characters came with me unfortunately.
In fact, all in all, it was rather a strange night because although I didn’t go to sleep very early. I was listening to my special Hawkwind playlist until I don’t know when, and I was wide-awake at 06:35.
When the alarm went off at 07:30 I was busy trying to go back to sleep but I gave it up eventually and at 07:45 I was up and about.
After the medication (which I remembered to take this morning) I sat down and with bated breath transcribed the dictaphone notes from last night.
Once again I started dictating this story into my hand in my sleep. There was a police station with several policemen working there. The Chief Inspector was out so the sergeant was opening the post. He found a book so he passed it to Sergeant Williams, a book that was computer-written with loose-leaf pages that described a missing girl. There was an image of a young girl with two older people in some kind of nacelle at a funfair. They had been stranded so they had to climb down the arm of this nacelle. It led to some kind of event taking place that someone had set up in his garden at night but he had to go out so he’d leave it there but he’d be back three hours later to carry on in the small hours. But there was some strange noise like music about something taking place outside. He thought that it was to do with the church nearby but when he looked out of his window everything was in total blackness
So to continue that radio show for a few hours was total chaos with all kinds of music being played but then again someone took over the slot for a 2-hour jazz programme and the remainder became a radio play that started off pretty much in the same way that this story started so people were wondering what was happening.
So no TOTGA after last night, no Zero, who hasn’t been around for quite a while, and no Castor, who hasn’t featured in any of our voyages for several months, if not longer. It would be really nice if the latter two would come back and visit me during the night.
At breakfast I used up the last of the bread so I had to go out for another loaf.
On the way down the hill towards Delhaize I glanced up a side-street and noticed a crane just here that seemed to be up to no good.
It’s far too far up there for me to be able to see what it was doing but that was a really heavy piece of equipment so there must have been something serious going on.
At Delhaize I spent a lot of money, and you’ll all be probably wondering why there are things like ham and cheese in my shopping bag considering that I’m a vegan. But all will be revealed in due course and I hope that it will be put to good use.
After lunch I had a ‘phone call from my bank. When I replied to his opening question he replied to me in English.
“What’s up?” I asked (in French). “Isn’t my French good enough?”
“Oh it’s fine” he replied.
“We can speak in Flemish if you like” I said (in Flemish)
“I don’t speak Flemish” he replied (in French).
So we carried on in French.
The rest of the day has been wading through the piles of photos that I’ve taken so far this month. There have been plenty of those but I haven’t had the time up until now to deal with them.
Tea was pasta and burger, which was eaten quickly because there was football on the internet – Y Fflint v Y Bala.
Although the score was just 1-0 to Bala, it was one of the most exciting games that I’ve seen for quite a while and the first 30 minutes were spell-binding. I reckon that they must have had to change the woodwork at half-time, the number of times the ball thudded into the posts and the crossbars.
But right now I’m off to bed. And sleep if I can although that’s doubtful as there’s a group of people having fun in the next-door apartment and the walls here are thin. I suppose that this means another long session with Hawkwind through the headphones.
