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Thursday 14th November 2017 – THAT WAS A DELICIOUS …

… tea, that was. Mashed potatoes, carrots, peas, vegan sausages and cauliflower cheese. The vegan cheese doesn’t melt very well so it could have been better, but not with the material that I have to hand.

The bad news is that I finished off the apple crumble tonight. With ice cream yet again, because I’d used the saucepan to make the cheese sauce. All in all, a meal fit for a king.

But what was even better was that the meteorological conditions tonight were absolutely perfect. Not only could I see the street lights or similar out on the Isle of Jersey, but all of the lights on the island were reflected in the clouds so that there was a pale glow in the sky right over where the island is, and it was magnificnt.

You can tell that I’m feeling a little better today.

Strangely enough, I had a bad night’s sleep. My head cold has started up again which is no surprise after being soaked to the skin on Sunday, so it took ages to go to sleep. And I was awake early too.

However, I’d been on my travels too during the night. Back into one of the offices where i worked and everyone from the manager down to the most junior office assistant, was harassing me, and enjoying it too. Not that this was any surprise – it was the story of my life and never bothered me in the past – but it was just by way of a remark.

I managed to beat the second alarm call and so we had a nice early breakfast. And a little more tidying up and sorting out the freezer, labelling all of the stuff that I’ve cooked in the past.

And I also had a little snooze too – but nothing like as deep as yesterday’s efforts.

After lunch I was away with the fairies again for a short while and then I had a stroke of luck.

You may remember from a few days ago that I was sorting out a huge pile of photos going back years. But I’d … errr … misplaced the keywords for the sorting. And browsing around here and there, I managed to come across something that dated back to about 2006 and while it didn’t contain all of the information that I needed, i gave me enough to get going with while I make further enquries.

Another thing that I did was to find on my Social Networking site a group of people who are interested in old lorries. I’ve joined it and I’ll be posting the odd photo here and there and asking for help in identifying them.

replacing water mains haute ville granville manche normandy franceAt about 16:00 I went out for a walk around the walls. And a little deviation to see how they were getting on with replacing the water pipes.

You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I went to this meeting where they were discussing this programme to replace all of the lead piping in the Old Town, and they had started on Monday, so I was keen to see how they were doing.

And they seem to be making good progress too, which makes a nice change.

Now I’m fed and watered, been out for another walk in the moonlight, and now I’m ready for an early night.

I hope that I’ll be feeling a little better tomorrow too.

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12th November 2017 – I’M DRENCHED.

I was going to say that I’m all wet, and no-one would disagree whatever with that comment.

It’s Sunday today and so I had a good lie-in. I’d been on my travels too. With Nerina in fact, roaming around the streets to the south side of Hungerford Road in Crewe looking for a supermarket calle Macksie’s where we were going for lunch. I had a vague idea where it was – somewhere off to the north of Hungerford Road but I couldn’t think of where it might be and no-one else whom we asked knew either. We ended up in a Court listening to a couple of cases and Nerina was showing her boredom. I could understand that because what we had heard to date wasn’t exactly setting our lives on fire, but there was one case coming up that would be intensely interesting and I was really looking forward to it.

It was about 08:30 when I came to life (such as it is) but more like 09:20 when I crawled out of my stinking pit. A late breakfast which meant that there wasn’t much of the morning left.

Just for a change, I tidied up the shelves a little in the kitchen and made much more space. There’s actually some empty spaces there now and I reckon that I can do even better than that too.

Never mind lunch – at 13:00 I hit the streets. US Granvillaise are playing Vierzon, one division below, in the French FA Cup, kick-off 14:00. Despite the howling gale-force wind I walked up there – and lost half of my biscuits to the gale.

The two teams were quite evenly matched, but the wind made a mockery of the match. Granville scored an early goal, but Vierzon had two corners, two gusts of wind, and consequently two goals scored direct that eluded the entire defence.

Early in the second half Granville had a corner which the defence could only scramble out from under the bar and which was knocked into the net by a lurking Granville forward. And 5 minutes later, a Granville attacker took advantage of a gust of wind to curl a shot in around the keeper.

After that the wind dropped and we had a torrential downpour that soaked all 816 of us in the crowd. We were drenched. And the match petered out into a 3-2 win for Granville.

But Vierzon were panicking and losing their cool, with the result that quite a few of their players found their way into the referee’s notebook. And With a lopsided notebook like that, it’s no surprise that a couple of Granville players found their way in too – and for some quite inocuous offences too.

After the match I dripped my way back home in time to see the second half of the TNS v Queen of the South match on the laptop.

Pizza for tea of course, and the pepper makes it taste even better. That was followed by Apple crumble and ice cream too.

And now it’s an early night again. Back to work tomorrow, if I haven’t caught flu again, that is.

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Monday 6th November 2017 – GUESS WHO …

… has come down with the ‘flu?

I was awake at 05:10 this morning with a streaming head and from then on, hings just went downhill. With the temperature being 11°C in the living room that was the cue to put on the heating in the apartment. And it works too, much to my surprise. I can configure the heating so that in here it’s on i the daytime and in the bedroom it comes on for the night.

After breakfast I sorted out some Lemsip stuff. It’s been here for about 10 years but it’s better than nothing, I suppose. And it gave me some relief.

It was a struggle to make lunch and then afterwards crashed out on the sofa. And out to such an extent that I went and dragged the quilt off the bed and made myself comfortable.

That did the trick because I was feeling a little better by 18:00. Well enough to make a vegan pizza and some of the apple crumble – which was delicious with some soya custard.

I shan’t be doing too much now. I’ll be in bed soom, dosed up witj Lemsip and olbas oil. And I hope that I’ll feel better in the morning.

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Monday 19th November 2012 – WE WERE RADIOING …

… today

But I almost wasn’t.

Coming into Marcillat-en-Combraille I encountered a large red lorry, and the closer I approached it, the farther it drifted out across the road into my path.

I ended up with two wheels on the pavement and a big bulge in one of my tyres. And just before I come to the UK too. I could have done without that.

Just for a change, things went according to plan at Radio Tartasse and we weren’t there long. I put some diesel into Caliburn and then went down to Liz’s for lunch – hot-pot, apple crumble and custard.

That was followed by some of Cecile’s chocolate cake and Liz’s carrot cake, all the leftovers from yesterday evening, and very nice they were too.

Radio Arverne was surprisingly well-organised too and we didn’t stay long there.

I’ve been planning a new format for the presentation of the programmes and that seemed to work quite well – a vast improvement on piles of scattered papers all over the place.

Bernard the engineer finally managed to track down some of the programmes that were lost following his technical hitches in March and September but the rest are, unfortunately, irretrievably lost which is something of a shame.

Back to Liz’s for more coffee and carrot cake (I really am so lucky) and that was that

Tomorrow it’s back to work and I’ll be doing the flooring in the shower room I hope, unless I have any more interruptions.

That should keep me out of mischief for a while. 

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