… and Doctor Watson had to deal with Professor Moriarty who was using 5 gold pieces to blackmail someone. This led to Holmes and Watson disguising themselves as workmen and along with 2 other people similarly disguised, one of whom was the interested party, having a most violet fight in a private bar in which Moriarty was present. At a certain moment Moriarty, fearful that things were getting out of hand, discharged a firearm, a duelling pisol in fact, in the general direction of one of the participants and that was the signal for Holmes to seize both the gold pieces and Moriarty.
After this, a girl and I were outside talking. But it wasn’t the talk that was interesting, but that we were looking at the sky. It was quite dark and there were thousands of stars in the sky, and the moon, less than half-full, was flitting by at a rapid rate of knots and there were wisps of cloud everywhere passing even faster. And on the way home, I noticed some workmen at work in a glass building, using the natural light because even though it was 22:22, it was still light enough to work by and so I took a photo of the scene.
Ahhh well, such are dreams made of, and it was really depressing to be awoken by the alarm at 07:30 when I had all of this going on in my head, especially as the morning was all miserable, grey and cold.
But I’d done a good evening’s work – a huge pile of stuff that had been building up over a year or so and now sorted out.
Apart from that, it’s been a quiet day today.
Cécile somehow managed to chainsaw her way through the electric extension cable the other day without electrocuting herself and so first job after breakfast was to pick up a new plug and fit it to what remained of the cable.
We took the opportunity to do another load of shopping as well – anyone would think that we are eating like pigs the amount of stuff that we are buying. I dunno where it all goes.
Exciting news after lunch, though.
Cécile received a phone message that her internet connection was ready and so we spent a good few hours trying to configure the connection. Even with the aid of a friendly cousin who lives on the island we had no luck at all.
In the end we gave up the struggle and went for a walk
Our perambulations took us down to the sea shore yet again, and from a certain spot where we stopped there was a good view of the lighthouse that we had visited yesterday.
Here it is rearing its head up above the trees in the distance on top of La Petite Foule. It does look impressive
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Later on, we all went for a little walk again – down the road in the general direction of Port de la Meule where we had stopped for a drink just as everywhere was closing up.
We didn’t go that far today because Cécile’s mother is getting on and it’s probably much too much for her.
Bit it’s still good to stretch our legs and breathe in the fresh air before going to sleep, I reckon.
But as for the internet, last thing at night, just as I was about to go to bed, I noticed that the thing seems to have struggled into life and after a few minutes’ manipulations I seem to be on line.
The world really is my oyster now.
, and so we called at the library, which has Wednesday and Sunday mornings as its opening times. 