{"id":11361,"date":"2018-11-15T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11361"},"modified":"2019-02-27T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:03:08","slug":"thursday-15th-november-2018-im-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11361","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 15th November 2018 – I’M FEELING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… a little better right now.<\/p>\n

After having a couple of really good days, it was odds-on that sooner or later I would have a bad one. And yesterday evening I could feel myself sliding down into the abyss.<\/p>\n

By the time that I had finished writing my blog from last night, at about 22:00, I was feeling so miserable that I went straight to bed.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take me long to go off to sleep either. And apart from one brief awakening, and I’ve no idea when that was, I slept right the way through to the alarm.<\/p>\n

The first time for a while that I have had a decent sleep, and as you might expect, when I awoke, I felt even worse. But that’s not really due to the sleep, but due more to the fact that I was having a health crisis.<\/p>\n

It took me a considerable while to tear myself out of bed and an even longer time to force my breakfast down.<\/p>\n

Eventually I went into the bathroom for a shower and a shave and a good clean-up for it’s shopping day today. In Caliburn too and for several reasons, not the least reason being the fact that on Saturday we might be having a few blockades on the road so I needed to do a big shop today.<\/p>\n

LIDL had nothing special, but the next stop – the Leclerc drive-in – certainly did. I’d had an e-mail on Tuesday to say that my printer had arrived and needed picking up. Today was as good a day as any.<\/p>\n

At NOZ I swapped the glasses that were broken, and I bought a few other things. Including a 2-foot high Christmas tree complete with 6 silver balls and a set of fairy lights – all for \u20ac3:99. I’m really getting into the Christmas spirit, aren’t I?<\/p>\n

Leclerc itself came up with nothing special and I was soon back home again, to find that I’d had a power cut while I was out.<\/p>\n

However by now I didn’t even have the strength to put away the shopping. There was some coffee in the pot so I poured one out and came to sit down in here – where I promptly crashed out. And I was gone for an hour or so too and it was very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

This meant that I had a rather late lunch. Inside the apartment of course because it was quite misty outside.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I had a very pleasant surprise. The people who had organised our voyage to the Hugh Arctic had sent me a promotional video of our journey. And it brought back many happey memories. There was a beautiful shot of Yours Truly and His Nibs<\/a> on our way to the Brother John Glacier at Etah in Greenland.<\/p>\n

And not only that, one of our party was lucky enough to be filming an iceberg when it suddenly capsized in front of her – and she had a beautiful film of it going over. She sent it to the company and they have sent it to us. It is really phenomenal and when I finally manage to organise myself I shall post a link to it.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I started to feel a little better and I made some more progress on my third day in the High Arctic<\/p>\n

\"gathering<\/a>We had the usual afternoon interruption for a walk. I have to keep this up as best as I can.<\/p>\n

The tide was slowly going out and there were several people down there on the rocks searching in the rock pools for crustaceans and molluscs and so on.<\/p>\n

Which, I imagine, they share with their friends because, as I have said before … “and on many occasions too” – ed<\/em> … that one mustn’t be selfish with one’s shellfish.
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\"fishermen<\/a>They weren’t the only people out there interested in the local marine life.<\/p>\n

Out there just offshore close to the old diving platform were two men in a boat. One man and a dog short of Jerome K Jerome’s famous story of his trip up the River Thames.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea what it is that they catch just down there. One of these days I’ll catch a friendly fisherman and make suitable enguiries.
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\"triumph<\/a>There was much more excitement on the car park round by the lighthouse on the end of the Pointe du Roc.<\/p>\n

Parked up there was a pretty rare Triumph Thruxton.<\/p>\n

I remember very well the original Thruxtons from the late 1960s – a series of Triumph Bonneville motorbikes specially modified for competition. However the modern reincarnation of the company launched a limited range of sports motorcycles with the same name in 2004
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Back here and back on the High Arctic pages, and t won’t be long now, I reckon, until Day Three is finished. Always assuming that I can find it because the laptop has now crashed and it won’t restart at the moment. I’m having to type this on the laptop that I use as the media centre.<\/p>\n

All of this took me up to teatime and I had a nice plate of steamed vegetables and vegan sausages. But once again, the vegan cheese sauce failed to thicken. I notice that I’m using a different brand of soya milk to the one that I usually use, and that might account for it.<\/p>\n

\"moonlight<\/a>I went out for my evening walk as usual after tea.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that the moon is a long way from being full, there was plenty of moonlight about. I hadn’t taken the tripod and the zoom\/telephone lens with me so I had to make the most of the equipment that I had<\/p>\n

Considering that it’s a hand-held shot, it hasn’t come out at all too badly.<\/p>\n

Around the corner, I nearly collided with someone lurking away in the darkness. But he was the only person whom I saw, apart from the people loitering around at the bar and the pizza van.
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But now I’m off to bed – something of a late night I’m afraid. I’ve managed to get the laptop to fire up but that’s all that it’s doing. Using a technique that I dredged from the back of my mind with good old T223 at the Open University, I’ve been able to force access to the files and I’m now copying them onto a back-up drive.<\/p>\n

I can see me having to do this every couple of hours rather than every night. I don’t want to be losing work like this.<\/p>\n

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\nFishermen in a boat near the old diving platform at the Pointe du Roc
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