{"id":10441,"date":"2018-04-26T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2018-05-04T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:36:42","slug":"thursday-26th-april-2018-and-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 26th April 2018 – AND SO …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… after all of my exertions yesterday and the enormous distance that I travelled, I was in bed last night quite early.<\/p>\n

No alarm either, so I was expecting to be awake by 05:00 or some other stupid time like that.<\/p>\n

But just for a change, and by complete surprise, I was stark out until about 09:00. A long time since I’ve had such a deep and complete sleep.<\/p>\n

I’d been on my travels too during the night. A couple of friends and I were running a company of three taxis, although the husband of the couple wasn’t all that keen. And neither were the other taxi operators, one of whom took a great deal of pleasure in driving past us while we were having an animated discussion about something or other.<\/p>\n

First job after the usual morning routine was to unpack. And much to my surprise everything arrived back safe and sound, although the opened vegan cheese needed a little care and attention. And there was plenty of the Sahara desert inside my suitcase too.<\/p>\n

Second job was to stick all of the clothes and the bedding from before into the washing machine and have it all ready and cleaned. I need to keep up to date with things like this as you know. <\/p>\n

Third job was to go to the shops. Caliburn struggled a little to fire into life (I’ll have to check to see how long I’ve had the battery) and then I was off to LIDL. I know that today is usually the day that I walk there but I need too much stuff for that and anyway I’m still feeling the aches and pains of the journey.<\/p>\n

The road was exciting though. Some old geezer in a car nearly took Caliburn and me out as he cut off the corner of one of the bends and a little later on, where the road narrowed and we were all stuck at the temporary traffic lights (the cabling work is still going on) some other old geezer sat there convinced that I couldn’t get through, although anyone else could have driven a bus through the gap.<\/p>\n

And having eschewed my travelling jacket for something more suitable for the Normandy climate, I found that I had forgotten my wallet with my bank cards in. But not to worry – there’s a \u20ac50:00 note tucked away in the pocket of my phone case so I wasn’t as embarrassed as I might otherwise have been.<\/p>\n

After lunch I had a chat to Liz on the internet and then set about dealing with the … gulp … 439 photos that I had accumulated in North Africa. And that wasn’t a job of five minutes either.<\/p>\n

And what didn’t help was a major interruption as some rather dreadful news filtered through the internet. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I have a soft spot for Bangor City FC in the Welsh Premier League, ever since my girlfriend at the time started to study there in 1975 and I used to go up there every weekend. <\/p>\n

Two years ago they were taken over by a bunch of people who had trashed several other sports clubs, and I can confidently use the word “crooks” as one or two of them do have well-publicised criminal convictions. I predicted at the time that it would all end in tears. <\/p>\n

And I’m right too, because this afternoon their application for a new licence to play in the Welsh Premier League was refused, and the club has been expelled. This will come as no surprise to anyone who knows the story of the current owners, because it is the same story that can be told by sports fans from many other clubs.<\/p>\n

The only good news is that the freehold of the football stadium is owned by a football trust which leases the ground to the club. So at least it will be available for anyone else who wants to use it for football and won’t be turned into housing development that would be ohhh! so lucrative for the owners.<\/p>\n

Tea was a frozen curry out of the freezer, and we had both of our walks today.<\/p>\n

\"fete<\/a>This evening’s walk was quite exciting though.<\/p>\n

In the Place Maurice Marland there was someone setting up a marquee. And so I went over to her to ask her what was going on.
\n“We’e celebrating the opening of the Place today” she replied. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that it was closed for renovations during most of last year.
\n“But it’s been open for several months, now, hasn’t it?” said Our Hero
\n“Ues it has, but we had to have a formal opening” she replied.<\/p>\n

Ahh well. Nothing like being up with the times, is there?
<\/p>\n

So now I’m going to have a rest because the alarm goes back on tomorrow. There’s plenty to do here.<\/p>\n

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