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Thursday 25th July 2013 – PHWOOARRRR – WHAT A SCORCHER

Yes, for some reason that I haven’t yet understood, it was flaming scorching here today.

It didn’t seem very much like it in the sense that it was a bright sunny day, but nevertheless, it wasn’t half hot, mum.

So much so, that despite being up and about long before the alarm went off at 07:30, I didn’t accomplish anything like as much as I was hoping to do today.

In fact at about 16:00 I had to go and crash out for an hour or two. Consequently you won’t notice too much of a difference here in the apartment.

Still, tomorrow I’m off to see the notaire for 10:30 and when I do come back, I’ll have to get cracking and dump half of this lot in the bin;

But one thing is for sure – the first lot of donations on Freecycle might be going at the weekend.

I have an amateur for all of the video and audio cassettes that are littering the place. Next up will be the creche and all of the other Christmas gear.

I finally managed …

… a decent night’s sleep and had yet another weird dream. This time I was in the USA and, driving along a road, a came to a modern concrete bow-arch bridge. But it was so steep that the car wouldn’t climb up the road, so I had to leave the car at the bottom and climb up myself – and I DO mean climb, as if I were mountaineering up the roadway, and it wasn’t ‘arf difficult seeing as I was carrying my laptop with me.

On the other side of the bridge was a queue of traffic waiting to cross to the side from which I had come, and when the traffic lights turned green (which took an hour, so I l learned), they all streamed off over the bridge. I wasn’t sure what to do but in the end, seeing a lorry hesitate about at the lights, I flagged him down and climbed in to take me back to my car. And the driver gave some grief to his passenger, sitting in the back of the cab, about “see what happens when you mess me around when I’m trying to driv”. From then on, I met two girls that I knew, a short one with short black hair and a thinner, slightly taller one with long mousy blond hair in a pony tail, whose birthday it was that day.

Yes, a long time since I’ve had a dream like that. I must be starting to feel better.

So after a leisurely breakfast I had a morning off, not doing very much, and then went off to pick up the boxes that I won on Freecycle. From there I went to pay my respects to Marianne, but there I met with something of a disappointment. There seems to be a burial planned for the plot next to hers for tomorrow and they’ve been digging it out with a mini-digger. As a result, they’ve moved the temporary cross from over Marianne’s grave, all of the flowers and wreaths are disturbed, and the soil has subsided from over the top. It wasn’t very agreeable, I can tell you, and I wish that I had never been.

Back here, I’ve now started boxing things up, seeing as how I have boxes to put things in. That makes a difference. I’va also found another cheapo video camera here – on that works off AA batteries and SD cards. It doesn’t look like much in the way of quality but the AA batteries and SD card give it the versatility that I would like. I maight have a play with this.

It’s Sunday, of course, and so it’s pizza and garlic bread night. But I’ve also had a go at making a tarte aux patates – a potato pie. One of those roll-up pie bases with thinly-sliced potatoes, onions, garlic, black ground pepper and soya cream. I’ll let you know tomorrow night how it turns out.

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