On the way to the shops I called at the Bank. My rent here is being increased by the cost of living index – all of \u20ac3:74 per month, so I need to amend the standing order. And at the station to pick up my rail ticket, I had to help an old man (like I’m really young, of course) wrestle with the ticket machine. It’s not easy if you don’t know what you are doing.<\/p>\n
Nothing of much excitement at LIDL although I did forget the Agave Syrup. I even had my hand on it at one point but was distracted and that was that.<\/p>\n
On the way back I had to call at the Estate Agent. With the rent being increased, there is \u20ac0:34 to pay for the period at the end of April. But they didn’t have a till or a cash box and I didn’t have the correct money, so I’ll have to go there another time with the right amount.<\/p>\n
10 kiwis, one banana; half a cup of desiccated coconut, one carton of coconut cream and a couple of tablespoons of honey (in the absence of Agave Syrup) all chucked into the whizzer and it created half a litre of kiwi mixture.<\/p>\n It’s now busy freezing in the freezer and tomorrow I’ll pass it through the sorbet maker to aerate it. And then it should be done. But I hope that the honey works. Agave Syrup is used for this as it keeps the molecules separate and doesn’t freeze the food in a big solid block.<\/p>\n But then, that’s what the aerator does. And technology seems to be catching up with me right now. Parked on the car park of the college this afternoon was a car powered by hydrogen – a mere 20 years after my Open University thesis on the use of hydrogen for motor fuel.<\/p>\n But we saw that when I lived on the farm – what I was doing back in the 90s becoming mainstream 10 or 15 years later. We saw the works for the fibre-optic cable and saw them building the new compound for the next phase. And here they are, now attacking the rue du Port as predicted.<\/p>\n Queues a mile long, seeing as it was school chucking-out time, but not that that’s ever going to bother them, is it? The last one is already part-occupied, and I see that they have now started on work on the final section of it. <\/p>\n I tried to buy an apartment in there, but no-one ever returned my phone calls. And people complain about a recession, don’t they? Mind you, anyone who knows anything about the “Carry On” films, and in particular Carry on Don’t Lose Your Head<\/a> But I digress. I came back in for a coffee. I’m not sure what happened to the afternoon after that. Next thing that I knew, it was 18:45. I must have been stark out for a good 90 minutes or so. This is really getting to me, isn’t it, this ill-health? I shall have to pull myself together somehow.<\/p>\n But I still managed to find the energy to make my aubergine and kidney-bean whatsit. And the helping that I had tonight (there are four others for the freezer) was delicious. I really enjoyed that.<\/p>\n![\"home](\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1804\/1804006.jpg\")
<\/a>Once I’d had my coffee, I set to work. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>After lunch I went for my afternoon walk, as it really was a beautiful afternoon.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>It’s not the only thing that is catching up either.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>I mentioned that there are four buildings here that formed part of the barracks. One is now the College, the second is the Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs<\/em> and contains the public rooms, and the other two are being converted into apartments (I live in one of them).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>But being of a small mind, I had to laugh at the name of the company that is currently working in there.<\/p>\n
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