{"id":11279,"date":"2018-10-26T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11279"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:36:08","slug":"friday-26th-october-2018-it-was-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11279","title":{"rendered":"Friday 26th October 2018 – IT WAS HARD …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… this morning to get out of bed and I ended up with something of an unexpected lie-in.<\/p>\n

And so it was something of a rather late breakfast this morning, what with one thing and another.<\/p>\n

This led to a nice walk up town to collect my railway tickets. And it was a good job that I was somewhat later than planned because the ticket machine wasn’t working and I had to go to the booking office. It’s a good job that I hadn’t waited until Sunday to do this.<\/p>\n

Round the corner and down the road to join the Madding Crowd at the Hotel des Imp\u00f4ts<\/em>. And afer a rather long wait in the queue I was handed a form by a Civil Servant who smiled and wished me luck. I was rather taken aback by that.<\/p>\n

On the way back I remembered the lettuce and I bought myself a baguette too so as to have a nice lunch. And for that, I went out onto the wall but I was only there for five minutes. It was bright and sunny, but there was a cold, biting wind and that drove me back to my apartment.<\/p>\n

The day has been spent in editing the photos from yesterday, but also attacking a huge project that I started the other day on the other laptop. That’s taken me most of the day, and I’ve made a load of rapid progress there. I’m pleased with that.<\/p>\n

I also spent some time on the Arctic pages too, but not as much as I would like.<\/p>\n

\"jersey<\/a>The walk this afternoon around the walls was freezing. The wind has increased in volume and it was quite uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

But at least the skies were clear and there was a really good view out to see and Jersey was quite clear.<\/p>\n

And so I attacked the island with the new 70-300mm zoom\/telephoto lens<\/a> to see what I can see.
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\"jersey<\/a>I blew up (because I can do this despite modern anti-terrorism legislation) the photo and cropped out and enlarged a few selections from the images<\/p>\n

Very blurred and very shaky of course, but considering that we are looking at something 55 kms away and there’s a strong wind blowing, it’s not really come out too badly.<\/p>\n

To do much better than this I’ll have to invest a lot more money than I can afford into my equipment.
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\"agon<\/a>But never mind the view out to sea. The view out along the coast past Donville-les-Bains all the way down to Agon-Coutainville was beautiful too.<\/p>\n

This was taken using the 18-105mm lens<\/a> with a focal length of 25mm so it’s something of a wide-angle shot.<\/p>\n

It’s brought out the scenery and the colours, and you can tell the strength of the wind from the whitecaps on the waves breaking on the beach.
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\"new<\/a>A short while ago I posted a photo of some men on a cherry-picker drilling away into the wall of a house on the rue du Nord.<\/p>\n

It’s far too windy for them to be working up there today so I could see what they were doing.<\/p>\n

It looks as if they are going to replace the lintel over the window there, although I can’t think why.
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\"residence<\/a>Here’s something that I have never noticed before.<\/p>\n

On the corner of the rue Paul Poirier and the rue Etoupefour is a building with “Residence des Granvillaises” cast thereupon. It’s not very easy to see this from street-level<\/p>\n

Apparently it’s some kind of holiday accommodation, but it’s probably well out of my price range and out of the range of most people who might want to visit me.
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Tea tonight was the rest of the cr\u00e8pes with salad. Just as delicious as it was before.<\/p>\n

And there was no walk this evening either for we had football. Llandudno v Cefn Druids in the Welsh Premier League.<\/p>\n

Two clubs scrapping it out in the basement and the first half was pretty dismal. It livened up after the inteval and the last half-hour was quite good. The Druids were the better-organised team but Llandudno looked the more dangerous going forward.<\/p>\n

But with both sides being totally incapable of hitting the nether regions of a ruminant animal with a stringed musical instrument, a 0-0 draw was no surprise.<\/p>\n

There are four clubs slowly coming adrift at the foot of the table – Llanelli, Carmarthen, Cefn Druids and Llandudno and it’s clear to see why these two are down there at the bottom. There is no-one pulling the strings and there is no-one providing the service to the forwards. Rittenberg for the Druids looked quite dangerous when someone gave him the ball – which wasn’t all that often.<\/p>\n

So no walk – the howling wind and now the rainstorm is enough to keep me in the house tonight. I’ll have an early night instead.<\/p>\n

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