{"id":10982,"date":"2018-08-09T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2018-08-09T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:16:13","slug":"thursday-9th-august-2018-im-not-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10982","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 9th August 2018 &#8211; I&#8217;M NOT SURE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; what to say about last night.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned yesterday, I settled down to watch a film hoping that it would send me off to sleep, but it was only a short one and  was still awake when it ended.<\/p>\n<p>But not for long because I was soon well away with the fairies.<\/p>\n<p>But not for long because despite having been in a deep sleep I awoke at about 01:35 with a uncontrollable itch. And I know full well that if I start to scratch it I would do myself a mischief because these days I bleed more easily.<\/p>\n<p>So after about 20 minutes of agony I had to leave the comfort and safety of my stinking pit and head to the bathroom where I have some Aloe Vera cream. And I smothered myself in it.<\/p>\n<p>It took a while for the pain to ease off but eventually I was out like a light again, right out until the alarm went off.<\/p>\n<p>After the usual morning ritual the first thing that I did was to have a good shower and clean myself up a little. I&#8217;ve not had a shower for a couple of days and in this heat, even I was starting to notice it.<\/p>\n<p>And it was around about here that I looked out of the window and saw the rainstorm. &#8220;That&#8217;s put paid to my walk to LIDL&#8221; I mused. <\/p>\n<p>While I was musing, Ingrid came on line and we had a good chat. We spent some time working out a cunning plan because I have a few things simmering away in the background. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808050.jpg\" alt=\"normandy trader port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>When we had finished chatting, I noticed that the rain had eased off slightly. So I found my raincoat and headed off out.<\/p>\n<p>Another vessel in the harbour right now is <em>Normandy Trader<\/em>.. She must have sneaked into harbour under cover of darkness from St Helier.<\/p>\n<p>And she didn&#8217;t hang about too long either. When I went out for my afternoon walk she had gone and as I write up my notes this evening, she&#8217;s well on her way back to Jersey.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite the rain, I felt on quite good form striding up the hill to LIDL &#8211; it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve felt quite like this. And at LIDL it was <em>rentr\u00e9e<\/em>, or &#8220;Back to School&#8221;, so there was quite a pile of papers and pens and the like. I bought a few notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>And not only that, earlier in the week they had a special offer on bathroom scales and I was sorry to have missed it. But they still had a few left so I&#8217;ve organised that. Grapes at \u20ac1:99 per kilo rounded off my shopping.<\/p>\n<p>And striding out, back in the rain, it didn&#8217;t take me too long to return home.<\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime it was still raining so I had my butties inside at the dining room table &#8211; now that I have one. My lizards will have to do without their pear leavings today.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few other things that needed my attention this afternoon, and as a result my walk was rather late. There was some kind of event going on in the old town, and there were crowds of people. But whatever it was hadn&#8217;t started yet and I didn&#8217;t intend to stay out there and wait for it.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was different. There were a lot of odds and ends hanging around so with a couple of potatoes I made a curry and added some soya cream with it. Along with some rice and vegetables, it was beautiful and there&#8217;s enough left over for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It was a windswept walk this evening and there were just three or four people out there. I didn&#8217;t loiter out there long and came back, chatting to Liz on the way.<\/p>\n<p>And in a week or two I shall be receiving (I hope) something exciting in the post.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll have an early nice and tomorrow morning I&#8217;ll tidy up. I&#8217;m expecting visitors.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-10982 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='10982' data-nonce='15be513adc' 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-10982 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-10982 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='10982' data-nonce='15be513adc' 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-10982 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-10982 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; what to say about last night. As I mentioned yesterday, I settled down to watch a film hoping that it would send me off to sleep, but it was only a short one and was still awake when it ended. But not for long because I was soon well away with the fairies. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,46,10714,7876],"tags":[4788,2560,5565,8581,5908,8742,5286,261,3319,10715,7891,286,462,10693],"class_list":["post-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-lidl","category-normandy-trader","category-place-darmes","tag-bad-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-ingrid","tag-jersey","tag-lidl","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-mushroom-potato-curry","tag-normandy-trader","tag-place-darmes","tag-rainstorm","tag-shower","tag-st-helier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10983,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}