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Thursday 10th November2016 – I HAD RATHER A …

… restless night last night. It took me ages to drop off to sleep. And then I was awake long before the alarm went off.

Nevertheless, I hadn’t had to leave my bed during the night and no only that, I’d had a busy night being away on my travels. And, as usual these days, the whole lot disappeared the moment I awoke.

I was on my own at first for breakfast but I was soon joined by some others. I wasn’t that much alone. And back here afterwards, I couldn’t find the motivation to start on my website. Concentration and motivation seem to be lacking right now and I don’t know why after my successes just recently.

By the time 11:00 came round, I went off to Caliburn to sort out some of the stuff that i’ll need here for the next week, and then down to the Carrefour by the football ground to pick up some sandwich stuff.

On the way back here I went via Caliburn to pick up the stuff that I had sorted out, and found later on when I was making my tea that I had forgotten a storage container for the other half of tea for tomorrow.

After lunch I had a good chat with two or three people and I also crashed out for a while. And not only that, I did manage to do some kind of work on my website.I also went down to the bistro to pay for my lodgings but once more, there was no-one there.

For tea I made pasta, kidney beans, veg and tomato sauce thickened with boulghour. And there’s half left for tomorrow which I had to leave in the saucepan as I didn’t have anywhere else to leave it.

I also had a chat with the landlord of this place about my ongoing health problems. He might be able to work out a good deal for me if I stay here. And I might just accept it too because I don’t really know where else to go for the next three or four months that I might have to stay here.

I’ll have to think long and hard about this.

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Monday 17th October 2016 – THERE’S ONLY ONE THING WORSE …

… than going upstairs in the dark, and that is going upstairs in the light and being half-way up when the timer on the light-switch switches off the light and I’m left in suspended animation half-way up the stairs.

But returning to our sheep, as the French say, last night’s sleep wasn’t so good. It was another one of those where it took ages for me to drop off to sleep. And I was awake at 03:40 for a short while. When the alarm went off at 07:00 (and again at 07:15) I went back to sleep but I staggered out of bed at 07:40 to go off for breakfast.

Breakfast was a bit of a disappointment. Cereals are running out and there is no juice at all. Stocks have been run down and aren’t being kept up. I hope that they do something about this today otherwise we’ll be on short commons tomorrow (and as I was indeed writing this, someone DID turn up to replenish the supplies.

And I don’t seem to have mentioned my travels last night because despite how bad the night might have been, I’d managed to go off on my travels. Not that I remember too much about it but it concerned Canada once more – Ontario and Quebec (but in the opposite positions) and how I (and a small family that I had picked up on the way) were going to emigrate there and live permanently.

After breakfast, I started work on my magnum opus – editing the photos and writing an account of my travels of yesterday. It took all morning, seeing as there were almost 2,000 words. Quite a lot but a far cry from the world-record 2600-odd that I wrote out the other day.

I had to move house too at some point during the morning. I was in a three-bed room but my previous room, a small one-bedded room, was now vacant. And this is where I’ll be spending the rest of my stay.

By 13:00 I had finished my magnum opus and so I went to the big supermarket on the corner for a baguette. They were selling electric rice cookers, which I thought was a waste of time because they didn’t have any electric rice. What’s the point of these then?

My exertions of yesterday must have tired me out because this afternoon, I crashed out on my comfy bed. i didn’t do too much at all.

But this evening, I made a lovely tea – kidney beans, tinned veg, bulghour, garlic fried in butter, tomato sauce and pasta. With enough left over for tomorrow. And really nice it was too. Soya dessert for pudding finished it off nicely.

And going back upstairs to wash the saucepan was when I was caught in the lighting trap.

So now, it’s the first night back in my comfortable bed. It really is comfortable too so I’m going to have an early night. Tomorrow I need the shops, and also some more stuff from Caliburn because I need to do some washing. I’m running out of clothes.

And so a nice early night for me.

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