… pizza tonight.
And it would have been even lovelier had Brain of Britain taken out the baking tray from the bottom of the oven. D’ohhhh!
So having had a coffee last night far later than is good for me, it was about 01:20 when I crawled off to bed last night. And despite waking up at 07:45, I thought that there was little chance of that, so I turned over again.
I reckon that 08:50 is as good a time as any to leave my stinking pit on a Sunday. But that meant a hurried scramble down to the magasin de presse for my baguette before the grockles cleared out the supply.
And, sad as it is to say, I have been “observed”.
My usual spec on the wall at lunch was once more occupied by grockles so I had to sit elsewhere next to a mother and young daughter grockle group a little farther down. And some woman walking her dog came over to me “what’s up? Have the tourists pinched your usual place?”
Yes, I’ve been well and truly fingered, haven’t I?
And I wasn’t alone either – and I don’t mean grockles and women with dogs.
Sitting there minding my own business when along came a young tabby-and-white tomcat. He went around the various groups of people scrounging food, and came over to me to see what I had. Of course I had nothing for him, but he let me pick him up and give him a stroke.
Very relaxing, stroking a cat. It’s good for the stress.
So as well as crashing out for half an hour this afternoon, I’ve been on the blog again. A few more pages unravelled, but one that didn’t even merit a placeholder back in December 2011 has now evolved to almost 1700 words.
There have been a few like that too, haven’t there? I wonder what was so important back in 2011 and 2012 when I never found the time to go back and write up pages like this.
And I’ve had another little play with a computer program.
Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I am a big user of Paint Shop Pro. The first serious computer program that I ever bought in 1996 and it’s served me faithfully for all kinds of image editing ever since – until I … errr … mislaid the disc.
I’ve turned my attic at Les Guis upside down on numerous occasions trying to find it, but to no avail whatever.
Anyway, to cut a long story short … "thank goodness" – ed … on eBay the other week was a copy of PSP 8.1 – a major upgrade with many more useful features than my old PSP 7 that has done me almost 20 years service.
The price was far less that what I paid back in 1996 too and so I mentioned it to Terry and he duly obliged.
So that’s me now with about 4 years of work to catch up. I hope that I can remember how to use it!
I’ll make a start when I come back from my walk. It’s actually stopped raining for once.
