… have expected, going to bed really early meant that I was awake early too. At 04:35 as it happened, and that’s ridiculous really for a Sunday.
I was still awake at 06:00 too because I remember noticing the time. But I must have gone back off to sleep again because I finally awoke at 07:45.
Mind you, at some time or other I had managed to go off on a nocturnal ramble. I was at a school last night, not any of my old ones but a boarding school. there were a couple of boys who were the domineering type whom no-one particularly liked. They were on the verge of committing an enormous indiscretion by misunderstanding something important, and so I scooted off to the dormitory to awaken a couple of boys who I thought would love to see this. So they came downstairs just in time to see these other boys come in, but they seemed to take ages to reach the whole point of this matter and I could see that interest amongst the spectators was slowly starting to drop off.
07:45 I awoke, but it was more like 08:30 that I arose. Still not good enough for a Sunday and I’m pretty dismayed by it all. I seem to be going to pot these days.
After breakfast, I started to attack the blog and the photos.
As for the photos, it’s been tough work today as I’ve reached all of the 100-odd photos that I took in Koln. And I need to research the internet to find out where I was when I took them, and that’s not easy.
But as for the blog, I had a good-ish day with that and I’ve reached as far back as 9th January.
Another thing that I did was to scan a pile of documents and print out copies. These are important documents like birth certificates, marriage certificates and the like. Whenever I receive an official document like that, I always scan it and keep a copy as a graphic image. If necessary, I can always print out a copy and I’ve done that on several occasions, like when I lost my driving licence and lost my passport.
Seeing as it was Sunday, I also spent some time doing nothing at all except vegetating. As I have said before … “and on many occasions too” – ed … everyone should have a day where they can do nothing at all and not feel guilty about it.
That hummus has matured nicely and it almost took my head off. It’s no wonder that I don’t have many friends if I can churn out stuff like that.
I went out for my afternoon walk. The rainstorm of the morning had stopped and the sun had appeared, although the wind was quite wicked.
It was blowing the waves all along the beach and there were some impressive whitecaps out there.
Just the kind of day to be out there on a small boat, I reckon.
Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that they are building a new house on the rue du Nord overlooking the walls and the sea.
Every now and again I like to see where they have reached with the work. They seem to have put a spurt on just now because they have actually started to do the roofing.
The heeavy beams and the like are in position. I don’t suppose that it will be long before they start the tiling.
There were quite a few people out there on the beach today at the Plat Gousset enjoying the sunshine, despite the wind.
And I don’t remember seeing this building before, and I was wandering what it might be. It’s made of concrete, and there seems to be some kind of encased concrete pipework leading from it.
I shall have to go down there one day for a closer look.
Round the corner and in the Baie de Mont St Michel the storm really was raging.
Although the tide was miles out, we have the concrete pylon with the navigating light for the entrance to the harbour, and that was receiving quite a considerable battering.
As an aside, when the tide is right in, the water level is above the top red band. We have the highest tides in Europe here.
Tea was a pizza of course. And while that was cooking, I peeled some of the mound of carrots that I had bought yesterday, sliced and par-boiled them and now they are in the freezer.
I hate shop-frozen carrots. For some reason they seem to taste all rubbery.
This evening was another nice evening. Really windy but the sky was perfectly clear.
There was only a small crescent moon but it was really bright. And the street lights of Cancale stood out really clearly over there. That’s 18 miles away of course, as I have said before … “and on many occasions too” – ed.
We also have the street lights of St Malo reflected off the clouds over there.
One thing about the night was that it was really clear. And the moon wasn’t too bright as to be overwhelming.
And so I reckoned that I would have a try at photographing some of the stars and see how they came out.
It’s not particularly good, but it’s hand-held in the wind on a long exposure. It’s surprising that it’s even managed to do anything at all.
So back here now, I’m going to go to bed. It’s not as early as I would like but it can’t be helped.
Quite surprisingly, I’ve not crashed out today. And it certainly comes to some kind of pretty pass that I feel that I ought to mention it.
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