{"id":11240,"date":"2018-10-19T19:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2019-03-01T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T17:53:19","slug":"friday-19th-october-2018-i-should-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11240","title":{"rendered":"Friday 19th October 2018 – I SHOULD HAVE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… been back at Mont St Michel today doing my tourist guide bit, but Jos\u00e9e contacted me yesterday to say that there had been a change of plan and she was off elsewhere.<\/p>\n

And that was just as well because I wasn’t feeling all that much like it this morning.<\/p>\n

Last night had been quite a late night – I was absorbed in a pile of work – so leaving my bed at 06:00 or thereabouts (and I did too – I was taking my medication in the kitchen when the alarm went off at 06:20) was something of a struggle.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, I had a few things to do and then finished off the photos from yesterday’s walks. And now they are all on-line<\/a>. All 40 or so of them so you can tell that it took me quite a while.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I did today was to catch up with some tidying up and to do the washing-up that I hadn’t finished yesterday. I’m starting to let things slide in here as far as tidiness and cleanliness goes and I need to get myself back on track while I’m still able to do so. I won’t always be fit enough to tackle things when they need tackling.<\/p>\n

There are also a couple of other projects on the go here and I’ve been dealing with a few of them too this morning.<\/p>\n

Lunch was taken indoors today. It was overcast, cold and windy outside so I reckoned that I could do with the comfort of a chair in the dining area.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, I did a few other bits and pieces and then sat down to tackle the photos from the Arctic. I’m still in Yellowknife on the Pilot’s Monument, and this afternoon I rewrote the things that I wrote about it earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

Well, not exactly “rewritten”.<\/p>\n

What I do is to write down things as they occur to me, put them into paragraphs and then cut and paste the paragraphs to make a continuous text, adding in a few conjunctions to make the text stream together.<\/p>\n

It also involves research. And it’s amazing what you find when you start to look. Instead of worrying about finding enough text, I now have quite a considerable excess.<\/p>\n

\"la<\/a>We had the usual afternoon walk around the headland this afternoon in the sunshine.<\/p>\n

And there, sailing about out in the bay off the coast of Br\u00e9ville-sur-Mer was the sailing ship that we have seen over the past few days.<\/p>\n

I had the standard lens on the camera so I took a quick photo of it at long range.
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\"la<\/a>But we haven’t bought a new zoom\/telephoto lens<\/a> for nothing, have we?<\/p>\n

Seeing as the ship was sailing slowly, I stuck on the new lens and took a zoom photo.<\/p>\n

I’ve still not been able to track down the name so I cropped the photo and blew it up (I can do these things, despite modern anti-terrorist legislation) but it seems that the name of the boat isn’t painted on the bows … “she’s La Granvillaise” – ed<\/em>.
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\"caravan<\/a>While I had the big new lens on the camera, I took a photo of the caravan site out at Br\u00e9ville sur Mer near the horse racing course.<\/p>\n

That was another place where I had enquired about accommodation when I arrived here.<\/p>\n

Liz and Terry have a little caravan and one idea going through my head was to park it on there for the summer, and then try for a good deal in a long-term holiday let through the winter.
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When I arrived back here after my walk I found that I had an important e-mail message.<\/p>\n

The third lens that I had ordered – a refurbished 18x105mm lens<\/a> – hadn’t been delivered as promised. And the tracking showed that they had tried twice, even though I had been here on both occasions.<\/p>\n

Having instigated a search, I was told that it was now awaiting collection at the Post Office. So I went down there to pick it up.<\/p>\n

And down there I found the reason why it hadn’t been delivered, and why I was puzzled as to how come no-one from the delivery company had rung the bell.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the address for delivery was incorrect. An error on the part of the dispatchers.<\/p>\n

But I’m not complaining, because when I wrote to them to tell them of the delay and the inconvenience, they refunded my postage. I’m quite content with that.<\/p>\n

After all of that, I had to sit down for a while and have a little … errr … relax for half an hour.<\/p>\n

Tea was a curry from the freezer and it was just as delicious as the day that I cooked it.<\/p>\n

\"brehal<\/a>Later on I went out for the evening walk around the walls with the camera and the new lens.<\/p>\n

Part of the plan was to retake many of the photos that I had taken the other day with the 50mm lens so that I could compare them and see the difference.<\/p>\n

Just like this one of the sea front at Br\u00e9hal sur Mer
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\"rue<\/a>And this one of the rue du Nord with the Place d’Armes in the background to the right.<\/p>\n

It won’t be as good as the 50mm low-light lens<\/a> because it needs more light to work it, but its advantage is that the new lens is a zoom lens rather than a fixed lens.<\/p>\n

That means that it’s more useful as a general-purpose lens (which is why I bought it) but I still need to see how it performs.
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\"rue<\/a>The other day I took an almost-identical photo to this one and the difference is quite apparent. The earlier one has come out much better<\/p>\n

But that’s only to be expected with the difference in the light and in the quality of the image.<\/p>\n

But it’s still something that the new lens will bring out an image. The Nikon 1<\/a> would quite simply not have registered enough of an image to work.
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So now I’m off to bed. In the morning I have to go shopping of course. In the meantime you can admire (or otherwise) this evening’s photos.<\/p>\n

\"night<\/a>Night time – rue du Nord with the Place d’Armes in the background.<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>The Place Marechal Foch in the night-time.<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>The Plat Gousset in the night-time<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>Night time – the rue Georges Clemenceau<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>Moon (hidden by the copyright details) shining over the harbour in the Port de Granville<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>Moonlight in the night over the Baie de Mont St Michel<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>More moonlight in the night over the Baie de Mont St Michel<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>Moon light in the night over Granville and the Baie de Mont St Michel<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>Yet more moonlight in the night over the Baie de Mont St Michel<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>The Inner Harbour in the port of Granville at night-time<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>The Inner Harbour in the port of Granville at night-time with St Pair sur Mer and Jullouville in the background<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>The Inner Harbour in the port of Granville at night-time<\/p>\n


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\"night<\/a>Place Cambernon in the night<\/p>\n


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\"bar<\/a>The Bar Rafale in the Place Cambernon at night<\/p>\n


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\"rue<\/a>The rue St Jean in the medieval walled town in the night.<\/p>\n


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