{"id":11371,"date":"2018-11-19T22:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2019-02-27T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:00:25","slug":"monday-19th-november-2018-it-was-rather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11371","title":{"rendered":"Monday 19th November 2018 – IT WAS RATHER …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… a late night last night.<\/p>\n

Another 01:30 finish as I was pushing on with doing things, and this was reflected in the struggle that I had to leave my stinking pit this morning.<\/p>\n

During the night I was off on my travels again and although I can remember almost nothing of what I was doing. But there was one thing that struck me, as it has on many other occasions during the night. And that is the impeccable timing that goes on. There I was and I heard, in my voyage, the ping telling me that the telephone was just about to ring, so I reached out my hand and right on cue, the alarm went off. Absolutely perfect timing, and it’s not the first time that I’ve noticed this.<\/p>\n

As soon as I awoke I went to look at the thermometer. 3\u00b0C right now, and that’s the lowest that it has been so far this autumn. We’re definitely in Autumn.<\/p>\n

Breakfast was quite early too and that left me plenty of time to push onwards with work.<\/p>\n

And sure enough, by lunchtime I’d finished all SIX<\/strong> of the web pages for the third day of my voyage to the High Arctic. You can go to this page<\/a> and then work your way forward, if you have a couple of hours to spare, and admire the photographs.<\/p>\n

Dozens and dozens of them.<\/p>\n

That took me up to lunchtime so I had my butties in the apartment. It’s definitely out of the question now, this idea of sitting on the wall outside.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I had a letter to write. Someone whom I met on my travels had written to me and now that I have a functioning printer I can reply. I’ll have to take it down into town tomorrow morning and post it off.<\/p>\n

It was really windy out this afternoon but there was a crowd of people gesticulating wildly out on the peak.<\/p>\n

\"dolphin<\/a>There had been a couple of dolphins playing around just offshore and they had been giving a really good performance.<\/p>\n

At first, I thought that I had missed it all, but on enlarging one of the photos that I took, I found that I had indeed captured one of them on film.<\/p>\n

It’s rather blurred because it was way out in the bay and I had to crop and enlarge it, but it’s a dolphin all the same.
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\"marit\u00e9<\/a>While I had the camera handy, I wandered round to the harbour.<\/p>\n

We have Marit\u00e9<\/em> in her usual berth, but also, alongside, at the commercial dock is Thora<\/em>. She must have sailed in from Jersey on the morning tide.<\/p>\n

One of these days I’ll go down there and have a closer look at her.
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Back here, I found myself away with the fairies for a while, which is hardly surprising after the night that I had. But once I came back round again, I had a good go at the blog entry for Day Four of my Arctic trip.<\/p>\n

It’s been rewritten slightly and I’ve added a couple of dozen photos as a taster, just to keep things going until I can do the web page, which I’ll start tomorrow some time. In the meantime, you can see the blog entry here<\/a>, with all of the photos.<\/p>\n

There was an interruption during the early evening though. Someone telephoned me about my digger. He’s interested in buying it. But I don’t think that he’ll be buying it though. He was talking about “a couple of thousand Euros”, which isn’t even in the same library, never mind on the same page.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that he would chat with his partner, but if he couldn’t rustle up the cash that I want he would borrow a digger off his friend. So he can do that then. I might be keen to move on a lot of the stuff that I don’t need these days, but we aren’t having a fire sale.<\/p>\n

Tea was steamed veg and vegan sausages with cheese sauce. And using three times as much cornflour as I would normally use, I did get the sauce to thicken.<\/p>\n

Freezing cold outside again. 4.5\u00b0C outside and getting colder by the minute. I wound up the heating when I came back in.<\/p>\n

But I’ve hit a problem right now.<\/p>\n

About 6 months ago, Firefox went all commercial and hacked off a lot of add-on utility programs. Presumably the utility developers wouldn’t buy a development licence. One of the utilities that went was the *.ftp program that I used.<\/p>\n

There is however a lightweight browser – Waterfox – than runs on the Mozilla platform and the *.ftp utility ran on that. It’s been nagging at me to upgrade it for a while, which I haven’t done. But I’ve had to download it onto this laptpp, and the latest version to boot. And it’s running the new Mozilla platform and all of the utilities have gone.<\/p>\n

Now I’m having to upload via my webhost’s control panel, and that is just so painful. Fire.ftp was just like a Windows Explorer platform and so simple to use. In fact it’s the only reason why I ever used Waterfox.<\/p>\n

So that’s a waste of time then.<\/p>\n

And on this note I’ll go to bed.<\/p>\n

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