{"id":10962,"date":"2018-08-02T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T20:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2019-04-03T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:37:24","slug":"thursday-2nd-august-2018-now-heres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10962","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 2nd August 2018 – NOW HERE’S …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thora<\/a>… a thing.<\/p>\n

Not so many days ago I was saying that we hadn’t seen Grima<\/em> for quite some considerable time. So when I walked into town later this morning, I was surprised to see this boat moored up to the quayside.<\/p>\n

At first glance I thought that it was Grima<\/em>, albiet having had a major refit because, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall, she was looking rather tired after almost 45 years of service.
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\"thora<\/a>But on closer examination she isn’t Grima<\/em> at all but another former Shetland ferry called Thora<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She’s not quite a sister of Grima<\/em> because she’s slightly larger and has a different superstructure.<\/p>\n

But she also worked around the Shetland Islands and the last information that I have was that she was laid up as a reserve in 2011.
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\"thora<\/a>Anyway, here she is in all her glory. A rather blurred photograph unfortunately but it was taken rather late at night on a very slow exposure.<\/p>\n

And I would have liked to have found out much more about her, but there was no-one around to ask.<\/p>\n

On eof these days I’ll have to go down there when there are people around, and see if I can talk my way into having a guided tour.
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It was another bad night last night. I spent most of it tossing and turning. It wasn’t until light that I started to drift off to sleep. And so I rather ignored the alarm when it went off.<\/p>\n

With having a late start and a late breakfast, it was getting rather late to walk up to LIDL. And then Ingrid appeared on the internet so we had a really good chat for over an hour.<\/p>\n

No chance of going shopping now so I just popped into town for a baguette<\/em>, when I encountered Thora<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand these lizards.<\/p>\n

For my lunch I went and sat on the wall as usual. Two lizards came to keep me company, and although I dropped three pieces of pear on the floor, they spent most of the time fighting over just one of the pieces, totally ignoring the other two.<\/p>\n

Back here I had a shower and cut my hair, and then started to tidy up. Everywhere is vacuumed and I just need to wash the bathroom and the floors, which I can do tomorrow before I go to the station.<\/p>\n

I also did a lot more tidying up, and there’s not all that much more to do now.<\/p>\n

Tea was one of the pies out of the freezer, and that reminded me of something. I have some gluten-free pastry here so I made a couple of green bean and mushroom pies for tea tomorrow night. No sense in wasting the pastry, is there?<\/p>\n

\"channel<\/a>It was another beautiful evening when I went for a walk around the headland.<\/p>\n

There were crowds of people out there tonight picnicking in the lovely weather, and while I was looking out to sea I noticed a movement right way in the distance.<\/p>\n

And one of the advantages of having a really decent telephoto lens and image editor is that you can crop and enlarge the image to see what’s going on.
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\"channel<\/a>No prizes for guessing what it is of course.<\/p>\n

It’s the Channel Islands ferry, the old one (I’ve not seen the new one for quite a while, thinking on – maybe she’s up at Barneville) coming back from the last run of the day from St Helier.<\/p>\n

The tide is on its way in right now so it’s the right time for the ferry to come back and moor up. And then, I imagine, she’ll be going off into the inner harbour for the night.
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\"marite<\/a>She’s not the only one who’s back in port right now.<\/p>\n

As well as Thora<\/em> who is still where I saw her at lunchtime, Marit\u00e9<\/em> has also returned from her latest voyage and is moored up here at her quayside this evening.<\/p>\n

She doesn’t appear on any port call list that I can find so it looks as if she has just been on a trip around the bay. But not, presumably, at five bob a head.
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So now that I’m back, I’m going to have an early night. I’ve managed to go for a whole day without crashing out, and I’m going to be busy for the next few days, so I need to make sure I’m in good form.<\/p>\n

Not quite sure how I’m going to manage that though.<\/p>\n

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