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Friday 6th April 2018 – TODAY …

… the burst of enthusiasm that I had had yesterday deserted me again and we had another quite lethargic day.

What didn’t help matters was that the battery in the phone went flat during the night and so I didn’t have the usual alarm call. It was … errr … some time later that I resurrected myself from the dead. But I’d been on my travels too, in a farm connected to that chocolate factory where I was the other night.

But I don’t know whether or not I mentioned it last night but the temperature dramatically warmed up in the afternoon, to such an extent that I didn’t put the heating on in the bedroom last night. And while I could feel the chill, it wasn’t too unpleasant.

With the late start and even later breakfast it disrupted my plan somewhet and it was another day when I just couldn’t get myself going. I ended up accomplishing nothing at all.

Outside this afternoon it was really delicious – 15°C (warmer than in the building) and it’s been a long time since we’ve had that temperature. There were crowds of people out enjoying the weather. I bumped into my neighbour and we had a good chat for 10 minutes.

It’s worth recording too that despite the lethargy I didn’t crash out this afternoon. Makes me wonder if my early starts are what are seeing me off.

Seeing as I’m starting to run out of space in the freezer I rescued the white bap that was in there and had burger and baked potatoes. That was delicious too.

And then, the evening stroll around the walls – in daylight. The first time for many, many months. But SHOCK HORROR the public bins were full to overflowing. I had to put my rubbish in Caliburn until I can find another one tomorrow somewhere.

Now I’ll make sure that the phone goes on charge tonight. It’s shopping tomorrow and I don’t want to be late. But I don’t need much seeing as I’ll be on my travels in the week.

And that reminds me – I’d better start to pack, hadn’t I?

Saturday 28th October 2017 – BRAIN OF BRITAIN STRIKES AGAIN!

There I was, doing the rounds of LIDL with a bag full of shopping. Just about to put my shopping on the convenyor when I reached into my pocket for my wallet with my money and bank cards in it.

Yes, I’d had my raincoat on last night, hadn’t I?

I had to dump my bag behind one of the empty tills and nip home for my wallet.

It won’t happen again though. I’ve left €50 in Caliburn and another €50 in the secret pocket in my mobile phone case. But what a silly thing to do!

A strange thing happened this morning. It was 08:20 when I awoke this morning. No alarm. For some reason or other the telephone had stalled at 23:49. And so we didn’t have sucj a good start to the morning anyway.

After doing some stuff on the laptop I went off for my trip around the shops and my unexpected return here. But the old washing machine has now gone to the great laundry in the sky – the dechetterie was open this morning which makes a change. The fridge is there too, along with another pile of cardboard boxes that had accumulated

At the Auchan I did the rest of the shopping. Including some frozen sprouts, frozen mushrooms and frozen peppers. What with the mango sorbet and the loaf of bread the freezer is now full. It’s far too small for what I need and I’ve a good mind to take it back to swap it for a bigger one.

Mind you, I thought that the fridge was far too small too, but I’ve managed to rearrange things around in there and there’s plenty of room in there now. I imagine that once I start to attack the frozen food it will be the same in the freezer there too.

After lunch and a bit of tidying up, I crashed out for half an hour or so, and then I caught up with a few other things that needed doing too.

football us granvillaise es hebecrevon cite des sports granville manche normandy franceBut this evening US Granvillaise’s 3rd XI were playing ES Hébécrevon on the artificial pitch at the Sports Centre. And as it was a reasonable evening, I dressed up warmly and walked all the way there. It’s about 3.5 kilometres up and down hill, and I reckoned that it would do me no good.

Much to my surprise the Sports Centre was closed up, so there was no buvette. How is this possible? In the Auvergne they wouldn’t even consider having a public event without a buvette, and yet here we are, twice in two days, THis isn’t the France that we know and love, is it?

As for the match itself, Granville were bottom of the league without a win and Hébécrevon were 9th. So I was expecting another defeat. But much to my surprise I saw one of the best matches I’ve seen for quite a while.

Granville were much better than their league position suggested and played some beautiful football. Hébécrevon huffed and puffed but never looked likely to seriously trouble the Granville defence, and the home side scored three of the best goals that I’ve seen for a while.

All three of them breakaways, two of which were solo efforts and the third was a cross from the young lad playing left-wing (who had an excellent game) into the centre to the forward who hit it on the half-volley straight into the corner of the net.

I walked back home wfterwards, stopping for a bag of chips. And nice they were too.

Now I’m off to bed and it’s a lie-in tomorrow with an extra hour in bed. We put the clocks back tomorrow – 1 hour if you live in the real world, 50 years if you live in the UK, 120 years if you voted for Brexit and 250 years if you voted Conservative.