… who it was who decided to have a party underneath my bedroom windowsill at 04:20 this morning, but if ever I lay my hands on them, they’ll be drinking soup through a straw for the next few weeks.
What made it worse was that I was on an exciting nocturnal ramble and I remember saying to myself “I really MUST remember this!” – but I awoke with such a sudden start that it went comletely out of my head and I couldn’t remember a thing.
But never mind – I managed to be out of bed before the second alarm went off, no matter how much I didn’t feel like it. And after breakfast I had a shower and cut my hair. I haven’t done that since before I went to Canada and it was looking quite unruly.
For the rest of the morning I had the usual nonsense to perform on the laptop. That took me up to lunchtime.
Now I do have to say that this bread from LIDL really does freeze well. And it defrosts even better. I shall have to do more of this and I’m wishing now that I had bought a bigger freezer.
After letting my lunch digest for an hour or so I went for another walk.
My route took me down to the docks so that I could see whether Grima had brought anything exciting yesterday.
There were these tractos – two of them – or, rather, one and a half because the one furthest from the camera is only the gearbox, cab and rear axle.
They are International Harvesters and by the looks of things they have been standing outside in the weather for a considerable number of years. There’s nothing much of any interest on them, that’s for sure.
I walked on through the town to the car park where I left Caliburn when I first came here
There’s a little park just there with a pond and a couple of fenced compounds with all kinds of different animals in there.
I hadn’t actually been for a walk around it before, and so I took the opportunity to go for a good prowl around, seeing as it was such a nice day.
There was a zig-zag path at the back of it so I climbed right up to the top of it. And there was a good view down to where the old goods railway line used to run down to the docks.
I ended up on the main road out to Donville-les-Bains and from there it was quite an easy walk down the hill to the Casino.
But not so easy going up the hill on the other side to the Old Town. I Had to take my time up there. I’m definitely getting old.
I didn’t know what to make for tea tonight so I prepared some vegetables in a big dish with olive oil, chick peas and peanuts and put it in the microwave. It didn’t come out how I was hoping as the potatoes and carrots weren’t cooked enough, and the frozen veg was overcooked.
But it’s no big deal. You have to pay to learn. I’ll have to do the spuds and carrots on their own first next time.
So I’ve been out for my walk and I’m off to bed in a short while. Tomorrow I’m planning on walking out to LIDL to buy some more bread. We know that the bread sells out quickly, so I’ll have to go out fairly early.
