{"id":11354,"date":"2018-11-13T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T21:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:52:32","slug":"tuesday-13th-november-2018-just-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11354","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 13th November 2018 – JUST FOR A CHANGE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… just recently, I’ve had a profitable day and done a lot of work.<\/p>\n

It didn’t start out like that though.<\/p>\n

Waking up at 03:41 did me no favours this morning. And neither did reawakening at 05:46 I’m really going to have to do something about this.<\/p>\n

But at least it’s taking me off on some astonishing voyages during the night.<\/p>\n

Last night I was out in “The Wild West” in a homestead in an area where there were several other homesteads. And we’d been round o one of them for a bit of a hoedown, I suppose. We went home in our waggon in the dark after the event and reached home safely, only to find out that the people we had visited the previous evening had been massacred in their beds by the Commanches. And while we were looking around there for clues, we heard of another incident at another homestead so we went around there. I’ll spare you all of the gory details as you are probably eating your tea or something right now. Everyone started to talk about launching an offensive against the Commanche but I was busy loading my family into a waggon to take them to the fort. I was all in favour of launching an offensive but I wanted to make sure that my family would be safe before I went off.
\nLater on, I was round at Liz and Terry’s. We’d had a party of some kind and as Liz had to go off somewhere I said that I would do the washing up. Most of it was glass bowls and dishes and the like, and I was stacking them on the floor after I’d dried them, ready to put away. Someone walking past saw one of them on the floor and gave it a kick. He hadn’t noticed that it was the top of a huge pile of glassware, and ended up smashing a whole pile of the glassware. “Whatever am I going to do now to explain this to Liz?” I wondered. Anyway, after all of this, I went to bed. It was round about 700AD when I went to bed and when I awoke it was 1624AD – I’d been asleep for over 900 years. Liz was there by the side of the bed with an IKEA bag full of letters and post that needed signing and I had to go through them and initial them all. I apologised to Liz for sleeping so long but she said that I must have needed it and it must have done me good. In the bag were a few things that I hadn’t wanted Liz to see – after all, I’m entitled to a private life – so I had to distract her attention from them somehow.<\/p>\n

With an early start like that, I had an early breakfast and then an early attack on Day Three of the High Arctic.<\/p>\n

I had several breaks during the day – for a shower, a couple of walks, to make some muesli, lunch and so on, as well as a little … errr … relax during the afternoon, but nevertheless I’ve done about a third of the page. We’ve taken off from Yellowknife (twice in fact), refuelled at Pelly Bay and are now overflying Baffin Island well on our way to Mittimatalik.<\/p>\n

Another couple of days like this and I’ll have this page finished. But can I keep on going?<\/p>\n

\"bird<\/a>Lunch was taken inside again today, but maybe I ought to have tried to go out on my wall and eat it.<\/p>\n

When I did finally go out for my afternoon walk today, rather later than usual, It was much warmer than it has been just recently and the wind had dropped dramatically.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t the only one out there enjoying the beautiful weather either. There was some kind of seabird scavenging in a rock pool down below.
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\"sun<\/a> The sun was shining nicely too and we had some really clear skies to enjoy.<\/p>\n

The view over the tidal harbour was really impressive this afternoon even if the tide was out and there wasn’t anything out there moving around.<\/p>\n

Outside the building as I arrived back I bumped into one of the neighbours. We had quite a lengthy chat about nothing special at all. But I have to be sociable every now and again.
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Tea tonight was stuffed taco rolls with rice and vegetables. With the stuffing that was left over from yesterday I added a tin of kidney beans, some olive oil, tomato sauce and hot cayenne pepper.<\/p>\n

Totally delicious, it was.<\/p>\n

\"moonlight<\/a>On my evening walk around the walls there was plenty of moonlight and with the skies being clear it was reasonably light.<\/p>\n

From the top of the rise in the rue du Nord there was a view back down the street and across to the College Malraux at the back of where I live.<\/p>\n

And this photograph has come out rather well too.
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\"beach<\/a>While I was out there I didn’t encounter a soul. And I mean that too. There was absolutely no-one around in the streets. They must have heard me coming.<\/p>\n

The wind had dropped quite dramatically this evening and the sea was reasonably calm.<\/p>\n

And with the tide not being quite fully in there were no waves tonight crashing up over the sea wall on the Plat Gousset
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\"trawlers<\/a>The tide was however in far enough that the gates to the innher harbour were open.<\/p>\n

And so all on my own, standing on the top of the walls I was the only spectator of a beautiful nautical danse macabre<\/em> as three trawlers came sailing in line astern into the inner harbour.<\/p>\n

They swung round in a beautiful synchronised U-turn and went over to the quay at the back of the fish processing plant.
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\"trawlers<\/a>I stood up there and watched them for quite a while as they tied up, presumably ready to unload their catch.<\/p>\n

And I walked back to my apartment, musing on the fact that the amount of free and exciting entertainment that I’ve been having from the boats in the harbour while I’ve been has been rather impressive.<\/p>\n

And now I might be going. To bed, I mean. I’ll be making the most of an early night, I hope. High time that I had a decent night’s sleep. I still live in hope.
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