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Sunday 26th March 2017 – I SHOULD HAVE …

… gone out this afternoon but for some reason or other I wasn’t feeling up to it.

I’d had a late night last night and had a little awakening some time before the dawn. But I went back to sleep again and the beauty of it being Sunday and no alarm was that it was 09:45 when I finally awoke.

To find bright blue skies and a gorgeous sunlight pouring into the house. In fact, the temperature reached over 20°C in the attic, without any heating at all.

A leisurely breakfast followed as I slowly came round to face the day, and then after a while I attacked the sorting out of the attic. Everything that I can think of taking – with the possible exception of some food to tide me over for the next few days, was all boxed up and ready to go. And seeing as it was a bright sunny day, I vacuumed the place again with the vaccum cleaner thingy that I have.

That took me up to 13:00 and I should be now have been at Le Quartier. But sod that for a game of soldiers. I wasn’t up to it and so I stayed here and had a butty and a rest to gather up my strength.

Liz, Ingrid and Rosemary were on line so I had quite a lengthy chat with everyone. And by this time it was 16:00. I can’t sit here all day idly doing nothing. I started to move the boxes from here and from the bedroom downstairs.

I gave Caliburn another tidying out and then put the boxes in the back. I fetched a pile of stuff from the downhill lean-to and put that in there too. 12 boxes in all, and all of that took well over an hour. By the time I had finished and crawled (and I DO mean crawled) back up to the attic I was finished. From deciding that I needed a coffee to actually summoning up the force to make it, it took me an hour.

But I’d had a visitor too. A young boy who told me that he was looking for diodes and things like that. But it looked mighty creepy to me.

Tonight I finished off Ingrid’s stuff (the lentil, pepper and tomato sauce stuff was even yet better tonight) and once I can do the washing up, I’ll be off to bed.

But I bet that it’s going to be another hour before I can summon up the energy to do that. I’m clearly not well, as we all know and I must stop harping on about it.

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Monday 20th October 2014 – I’VE HAD SOME MORE …

… unexpected visitors today. I happened to glance out of the window this afternoon and there was an old woman and three kids, two aged about 8 and a girl aged about 13 or 14, staring at the house. Further enquiried revealed that the old lady used to live here years ago and she just happened to be passing.

She insisted on a guided tour, which was quite embarrassing given the state that the place is in, but I suppose that I couldn’t turn her down, and she went off quite happy. She says that she might have some photos of the house from 60 years ago, and she’ll let me have copies if she finds them.

It disrupted my afternoon considerably, but I know that had I turned up like this at somewhere where I had lived 60 years ago, I would have hated to have been turned away.

But I do wonder who is going to be the next person to turn up here.

This morning I was up and about comparatively early and after breakfast I dealt with a pile of paperwork and put a load of web pages on line. You can now quite happily follow my journey around the Saguenay.

I also wrote a couple of letters that needed doing. And after a good hour or so’s work, I finally have a working printer here. I’m not sure how long it will keep going because, as regular readers of this rubbish will remember, I get through printers here about every 3 months and I’ve no idea why.

I also loaded up Caliburn with all of the clothes that I’ve sorted out. I needed to go to the Post Office of course to post the letters so on the way back I went to the dechetterie in PIonsat to drop them off seeing as how they have a clothing skip there. I also picked up a couple of rolls of yellow sacks as there’s a waste paper collection in Pionsat next Wedneday.

Back here I attacked the waste paper mountain until I was interrupted, and once my visitors had left I carried on again until knocking off time.

You still can’t see much of a difference in here unfortunately, but I must be on the right lines somewhere with all of this stuff that’s being binned.

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Tuesday 13th August 2013 – WE ARE NOT ALONE

No – Cécile and her mum breezed into town this evening. They made it as far as the Chaussée de Waterloo about 2kms away from here so I suppose that’s pretty good going. A quick phone call and I went off to rescue them. They took a while to find Brussels as I suspected, but neverheless it wasn’t too bad at all, everything considered.

I had another exciting dream last night, one that went clean out of my head the moment I woke up and that was hardly surprising seeing as how it was not even 06:30 when I woke up. When was the last time that I was up, washed, dressed and breakfasted and hard at work before 07:15, for no good reason at all? I bet that it wasn’t this year.

And what have I been doing today then,

A bit of desultory tidying up – I don’t want to give Cécile’s mum the right idea – and dismantling the giant wardrobe that someone is (hopefully) coming to pick up tomorrow early evening. But apart from that I have finally managed to find some on-line coding segments to add to my web pages to enable people to share them on various social media. You can see an example if you look right down the bottom of a page that I’ve already modified.

It’s not exactly what I wanted – I was really hoping for a hit counter as well for each button but that’s far too complicated for my *.html and *.css skills so I’ll have to deal with that another time. In the meantime I’ve added the button to about 50 of my … gulp …700 pages. I’ll be here for another 10 years doing the rest I reckon.

I found something similar for my blog, as you might have noticed. This does indeed have a counter but it doesn’t transport out of the blogging environment which is a pity. Nevertheless, you can all like my pages as much as you like and even share them with your friends if you want to. I know that I would, if I had any friends to share them with 🙁

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