{"id":10487,"date":"2018-05-04T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:10:41","slug":"friday-4th-may-2018-happy-star-wars-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10487","title":{"rendered":"Friday 4th May 2018 &#8211; HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, May the Fourth be with you. <\/p>\n<p>And I started off today as I meant to go on, that&#8217;s for sure. Flat on my back asleep.<\/p>\n<p>And to 09:10 as well. This idea with me being ill of not having an alarm going off to disturb me is clearly doing me some good, I reckon. Sleeping all the way through until I wake up. You can&#8217;t say better than that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly making me feel a little batter too because, much to my surprise, I actually put all the washing away this morning after breakfast. There had been some here on the dryer since before I went away last month and although that was put away, the only reason was to replace it with the stuff that I washed on my return. So that&#8217;s some good news. <\/p>\n<p>Not only that, I did a little more vague-ish tidying up and then sat down to edit another huge pile of photos. So if you scan back through a few of the last couple of days, you will probably see some photos and a bit more text that you hadn&#8217;t seen last time that you looked. <\/p>\n<p>It was another beautiful afternoon with the window open once again to let in the air. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805015.jpg\" alt=\"pointe du roc cap lihou baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>And while this was going on, I let myself out to go for a walk in the sunshine. <\/p>\n<p>Crowds of people there were out there too, all taking advantage of the gorgeous weather. And I can&#8217;t say that I blame them either because it really was nice and the views were outstanding again over the Baie de Mont St Michel.<\/p>\n<p>But I can see it becoming really busy here before too long and I&#8217;ll be back on my Friday shopping trips to avoid the rush.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805014.jpg\" alt=\"hang gliding granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>And it wasn&#8217;t just pedestrians who were out there taking advantage of the weather.<\/p>\n<p>We had a few more of these vulture-like people soaring up and down over our heads, reminding us of how primitive man must have felt when he had pteranodons and Pterodactyli to contend with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for one of these to end up as a crumpled heap at my feet because it&#8217;s bound to happen that a couple of these will become tangled up while heading for the same stretch of sky. <\/p>\n<p>Is there some kind of Highway Code for these people?<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>With the general improvement in my health I found that I could concentrate once more on a course that I&#8217;m studying. I mentioned that I found a free 3D program called Hexagon where you can create your own props from &#8220;primitives&#8221; &#8211; that is, basic shapes such as cubes, circles and pipes, that kind of thing that you can combine together. I had a go at it a while ago but didn&#8217;t make much progress<\/p>\n<p>However I&#8217;m not sure if I mentioned that I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zu-xZNYYv20&#038;list=PL595BF1A1310CC20F\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a whole series of videos on Youtube<\/a> which give a thorough grounding in the basics of the program. So before I was taken ill just now I had started to work my way through them.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s hard going. The presenter might be good at what he does but he drives me berserk with his &#8220;pacifically&#8221; instead of &#8220;specifically&#8221; and his &#8220;access&#8221; instead of &#8220;axis&#8221; and his &#8220;gyro&#8221; with a hard &#8220;g&#8221; (as in &#8220;garden&#8221;) instead of a soft &#8220;g&#8221; (as in &#8220;German&#8221;). I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll make it down to the very end at this rate &#8211; I really don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>As well as that, I&#8217;ve had my first session on the guitar for quite some time. Things are definitely looking up here a little.<\/p>\n<p>But not so much that I fancied any lunch. I&#8217;m still not feeling that well.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, tea was a vegan lentil-and-pepper curry from last November (such are the benefits of having a deep-freezer) but no strawberries &#8211; I was right in saying that they wouldn&#8217;t last until this evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805016.jpg\" alt=\"square maurice marland granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>The walk this evening around the walls was almost completely uneventful, <\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;almost&#8221;, because there was a large group of people having a late-evening picnic on the grass at the Square Maurice Marland. They certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves, although they didn&#8217;t say why.<\/p>\n<p>So I wished them all good health and carried on with my walk.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s an early night for me. The alarms go back on tonight for it&#8217;s a trip to the shops in the morning. Back into the old routine, hey?<\/p>\n<p>Still, the rest did me good, didn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-10487 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='10487' data-nonce='3f31ac68df' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-10487 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-10487 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='10487' data-nonce='3f31ac68df' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-10487 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-10487 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, May the Fourth be with you. And I started off today as I meant to go on, that&#8217;s for sure. Flat on my back asleep. And to 09:10 as well. This idea with me being ill of not having an alarm going off to disturb me is clearly doing me some good, I reckon. 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