… better night last night, just for a change. Asleep before midnight and slept right through until the alarm went off.
I was off on my travels during the night. I vaguely remember being on board ship somewhere, but apart from that, nothing at all.
Once I was up and out of bed, I had breakfast and then organised the photos from last night which I had forgotten to upload. And the *.ftp program seems to work fine, which is good news.
A check of the thermometer showed me that last night the temperature had dropped down to 1°C. Won’t be long now before freezing point is reached.
Thursday is shopping day so I had a shower and a clean-up, and then put a load of washing on. What an exciting life I lead, hey?
On my way up the rue Couraye, I was noticing all of the signs for “Black Friday”. yet another Transatlantic custom that people over here have started to embrace.
But there are clearly some people who haven’t quite grasped the principle of Black Friday. How can you possibly have a Black Friday sale that lasts for a week?
But it’s something that I’m seeing more and more. People are losing all of their traditional customs and habits in the relentless search for profit, although some of the instances that I have quoted on here just recently would bring that into question.
We feature every now and again the progress of the installation of the fibre-optic cable around the town.
Here in the Avenue du Maréchal Leclerc just a little higher up the hill from the railway station they are now digging out a channel on the pavement so that they can pass the cable higher up the hill presumably in the direction of the telephone exchange
The date of connection is getting closer and closer. And I for one can’t wait.
The other week we saw them erecting the Christmas Tree in the Place de la Gare and on Saturday we saw it in position.
To further add to the chaos in the Avenue du Maréchal Leclerc, they are now erecting the Christmas decorations across the street.
The local council was there with a cherry-picker, and a couple of municipal police personnel directing the traffic around th obstruction.
I shook my head and went on to LIDL where I did a pile of shopping. Nothing special but they have now run out of grapes which is a tragedy, and the packets of nuts that I use in my muesli were still on offer so I bought a few more packets.
A few weeks ago I posted a photograph of a building with “Residence des Granvillaises” emblazoned thereupon.
On the way back from the shops I took a little diversion to the Rue Etoupefour to have a good look at the entrance to the building to see what it looked like at street level.
It’s not anything at all significant, which is probably why I haven’t noticed it at all during all of the times that I have passed by.
Back here I had a coffee and then carried on with the photos from earlier. As well as having a little doze for a short while. It seems to have become a regular thing these days after any kind of exertion.
Lunch was the baguette from LIDL with salad and more of my home-made hummus. It really is quite a fiery concoction and tastes delicious.
This afternoon I added the photos to a couple more blog entries. if you go to this page and work your way forward you can see them.
There wasn’t a great deal of excitement going on during my afternoon walk.
There was a speck of something out to sea and thinking that it might be Thora coming back, I took a photo of it and enlarged it when I returned home.
But it wasn’t Thora at all but a fishing trawler out there doing the business offshore. And I for one am looking forward to the excitement when the UK leaves the EU and we start to have fishing fights between the French and Channel Island fishermen.
I can still remember the 1960s when a bunch of Icelandic trawlermen took on the might of the Royal Navy during the Cod Wars – and defeated them hands-down. French fishermen are far more resolute than the Icelanders, and the Royal Navy is a mere shadow of what it was in the 1960s
My perambulations took me around the headland where I could overlook the shipyard.
Remember the pink and white candy-striped trawler that we saw the other day being lifted out of the water at the ship repairers?
We caught a glimpse of it last night up on blocks, but here it is today in the daylight. I’ll be keen to see what they are doing to it and how the work progresses over time.
And that wasn’t all the excitement down in the shipyard either.
It seems that the mystery of why the Aztec Lady has turned up in Granville has been resolved. Here she is, in the shipyard, up on blocks like the rest of the ships in here.
It looks as if I missed out on the hoisting ceremony which is a shame because that is something that is quite interesting.
Anyway, it enables us to have a good look at her while she’s here.
And we can also keep our eye on her and see what work is being done. It must be important.
On that note, I came back here for a coffee and to start work. And the work in question is Day Four of my trip to the High Arctic.
I need to push on with that otherwise it will never be finished. And there are plenty of pages like that already.
Tea should have been vegan sausages, but I didn’t notice until I’d started the vegetables that the sausages were somewhat iffy. Instead, a vegan burger was rustled up and it tasted just as good with the vegan cheese sauce as the sausages would have done.
No-one about at all during the evening walk, except for a solitary jogger. Nothing at all worth photographing zither tonight, so I can have an evening off.
On that note, I’ll go to bed. Plenty of work to do tomorrow.
