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Sunday 24th March 2019 – THIS AFTERNOON’S …

football us st pairaise us quentin le homme stade croissant st pair granville manche normandy france… football match was much more interesting.

US St Pairaise were playing US St Quentin le Homme and as it was such a nice afternoon – rather clod and windy but sunny nevertheless, I decided to go out.

The match was quite even in some respects. Although St Pair was technically the better side, the players of St Quentin were more physical and direct in their approach.

The score finished 3-1 to US St Pairaise and St Quentin can count themselves very unlucky. But for two moments of magic for St Pair and a perfectly good (to me, anyway) goal for St Quentin disallowed for offside, and the match could have given us a totally different story.

Last night was a relatively early night (for me, anyway) and although I awoke a few times during the night, I managed to stay relatively comatose until about 08:15. It was something like 09:05 when I finally left the bed.

This morning, I was resurrecting the dictaphone, seeing that I hadn’t used it since my trip to the Arctic. I found a folder in there that I hadn’t accessed for quite some time, and there were about 30 or 40 files in there from earlier in 2018 about which I had completely forgotten.

And so I’ve copied those onto the computer and I’ve started to transcribe them. It’s amazing what I have forgotten and all of this has reminded me. But it’s just one more task to add to the long list that’s building up.

We had the football of course this afternoon, and then back here I made a pizza for tea as well as a rice pudding. That’s for the next couple of days because tonight there was the last of the slices of chocolate cake.

And tonight I was the only one out there walking around the headland in the wind.

Tonight I’m having an early night. There’s a lot to do as of tomorrow and I need to be on form.

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Sunday 13th May 2018 – THAT’S MORE LIKE IT!

Although the night wasn’t as early as I would have liked it, staying in bed until 09:20 is definitely the correct way to proceed on a Sunday morning.

And had I not wanted to go for a ride on the porcelain horse, I might even still be in bed now.

It didn’t prevent me from going off on a nocturnal ramble either. But I’ll spare you the details of this voyage. I mean – you might be eating your tea or something. But I will say that it was a continuation of one of my voyages from a day or two ago.

I had a nice, late breakfast that included a fig roll with strawberry jam and which was delicious as you might expect. And then a lazy Sunday where I did next to nothing. But as I have said before … "and you’ll say again" – ed … everyone needs a day when they can sit around and do nothing without feeling the least pang of guilt.

football stade croissant st pair us st pairaise us st quentin le homme manche normandy franceThis afternoon in the glorious sunshine I wandered off to the Stade Croissant in St Pair sur Mer where US St Pairaise’s 2nd XI was taking on US St Quentin Le Homme’s 2nd XI.

St Quentin, in green, were fifth in the table and St Pair were third-bottom, and the final score was 7-0 … for St Pair. Something that totally astonished me.

St Pair were easily the better team, and that was a surprise in itself. But the result did rather flatter them. Their second goal was a piledriver from 25 yards out that was screwed hopelessly wide of the goal and which fell quite by chance right at the feet of an unmarked attacker who would otherwise have been totally out of the play. And their third was a backpass to the keeper who went to trap the ball with his foot but it hit a bobble, bounced up, hit him on the shins and rolled out to an attacker 5 yards away.

Apart from that, the St Quentin central defence was just too slow. In fact, the whole St Quentin team was just 6 inches too slow all over the field, and it was that which made all of the difference. Had they been just that little quicker to the ball, none of this would have happened.

But it was certainly a surprising result.

At half-time, I had another look through Caliburn to try to find the missing spring clip. But instead I found two one-cent pieces. So “spend, spend, spend!”, hey?

Tea was another excellent vegan pizza (the ground black pepper makes all the difference) but this latest batch of grated vegan cheese doesn’t melt like the previous batch and you could see the join.

SO off to bed in a minute, and then back to work tomorrow. High time that I did something.

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