A few weeks ago I had the choice of going out to watch US Granvillaise’s 2nd XI play football in a torrential downpour and hurricane, or to stay at home and watch on the internet a Welsh football match.
And just like last time, I chose to stay at home and watch the football match from the comfort, warmth and safety of my own sofa.
And just like last time, the match was abandoned due to a floodlight failure. .
It’s really not my lucky subject, is it?
Apart from that, it’s not been a very good day today.
It started reasonably well with me leaping from my bed at some kind of reasonable time. And after breakfast and a shower, I took out the plastic and glass rubbish and then headed for the hills.
LIDL didn’t come up with anything special. And neither did NOZ – except that I managed to change the faulty guitar lead that I bought last week. Some nice coffee cups were probably the highlight.
But look at this from LeClerc.
We’ve seen the vegan pains au chocolat from a few weeks ago, but now LeClerc is starting to sell vegan croissants. I’ve no idea what these are going to be like but the supermarkets need to be encouraged when they dip their toes into the vegan waters.
It’s for that reason too that I bought some tahini – sesame seed purée – that they have now started to sell.
Back here, I couldn’t summon up the energy to unpack the food. I had to sit down and have a coffee.
When it came close to lunchtime, I made a pile of hummus. And I tell you what – I shan’t need to worry about vampires coming to visit me. The garlic seems to be extremely strong.
This afternoon I made a start again on the text database but not for long. I was soon curled up under the bedclothes fast asleep. For at least 90 minutes too.
And during that 90 minutes my mother – of all people – came to visit me. But I can’t remember what it was that we discussed.
nevertheless I went out for my afternoon walk. It was cold and windy, but there were quite a few people out there nevertheless.
And I saw something moving out here, away on the horizon, so I coupled up the 70-300mm zoom lens so that I could make further enquiries.
After all, I was sure that it was a ship out there either going to or coming from St Malo, about 35 miles away.
Cropping out the photograph, blowing it up (which I can do despite modern anti-terrorism legislation) and digitally enhancing it, I could see that it’s one of the ships of Brittany Ferries.
Having made further enquiries by reference to my live ships database (it’s quite a benefit hosting an AIS receiver here in my apartment) I can see that it’s Pont Aven.
Built in 2004, she’s one of the largest ferries on the English Channel, displacing 41,000 tonnes, and with a capacity of 650 vehicles and over 2400 passengers.
It’s quite likely that she’ll be one of the ferries that will be rerouted to Ireland after 29th March.
Back here I pressed on with adding some more photos to some of the earlier blog entries. I’m now back as far as 15th January and there’s still a long way to go;
Tea was a handful of pasta with some veg and then I sat down to watch the football.
With that being abandoned, I went off for an evening walk.
The storm was raging outside and the rain was teeming down.
The sea was quite rough too but the wind had changed direction. Instead of blowing straight into the bay, it was blowing across the bay, so the waves weren’t breaking over the Plat Gousset as strongly as they have done.
I stayed out there for as long as I could, but soaked to the skin, I headed for home.
Tonight, I’m hoping to go to bed early and to have a decent sleep. I need one too because I’m having difficulty in keeping going right now.
A nice lie-in will do me good.
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