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Tuesday 27th October 2015 – TIMBER!!!!!!

I’m not going to be short of wood for the next couple of years, that’s for sure. Not after today, anyway.

I own a parcel of land next to Lieneke’s house and about a year or so ago, a branch snapped off and snagged in trees right above the pathway that she uses to go to her barn. She had a few words with me about moving it, which is no surprise as I wouldn’t like a branch like that poised right above my head.

Anyway, with it being so nice this morning, Terry came round to attend to the branch. We had a good look around the tree and we noticed that there were several other branches that were unsafe. Furthermore, the tree itself was swamped with ivy and there were few leaves on it. It really was in poor condition.

And you’ve no idea how much noise a 50-foot tree makes when it comes crashing to the ground. It certainly shook the neighbourhood. And once it was down (which wasn’t easy) we set to work to cut it into 30cm lengths. While Terry was doing that I was carting it all away with the powered barrow and I now have a huge stack of wood, much of which needs splitting.

It won’t be ready for another year or two as it will have to dry out, but when it is ready it will be astonishing. Not only that, we had a walk around on the plot of land and identified three or four other trees, much smaller, but wood nevertheless, that have almost died out and so they will be coming down next.

I bought a chainsaw from the USA years and years ago and so we had it out. It worked fine but after having been stuck in the tree as it fell over, it’s bent the rail and needs to be repaired. Terry is looking into that and when it’s done, there are piles of things that I can be doing with it.

While we were tidying up we had the threatened rainstorm and so Terry came in to measure up for the plumbing and then went home. I’m not as young as I used to be – in fact I was struggling with the power barrow – and so I came up here and crashed out.

No reason why I should be tired though – after all, I’d had a good sleep last night and I’d been on my travels too. I was driving a taxi quite a distance away and when I reached as far as Sheffield, I realised that I could call up my base on the radio from the hills around there, due to the atmospherics in the air. Up and down the hills through some really depressing scenery, and then suddenly I had the idea to go to another taxi office there where I could call back to my base. I immediately appeared in a taxi office in the cellar of a big building, called back home, and then went up to the ground floor and outside. I remembered that I’d been “transported” into this taxi office and this caused a problem in that I couldn’t remember where my taxi might be, and I had a good prowl around the area, even in the local scrapyard, but that didn’t help and I ended up wandering aimlessly around. And at a certain moment I even had Zero accompanying me on my travels, and I’m no idea what she was doing.

Tonight, I finally had my Sunday night pizza that I forgot yesterday, and now I’m off for another early night and see where I end up.

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Tuesday 18th June 2013 – SHERLOCK HOLMES …

… 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.

grande phare la petite foule ile d'yeu france 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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port de la meule ile d'yeu franceLater 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.

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