{"id":11386,"date":"2018-11-21T21:43:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:07:33","slug":"wednesday-21st-november-2018-winter-is-definitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11386","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 21st November 2018 – WINTER IS DEFINITELY …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… here. Temperature was at 3\u00b0C again this morning when I awoke. And it wandered around about 5\u00b0C for most of the day. Whatever Indian Summer we were having has now gone for good until the Spring.<\/p>\n

Last night was a bad night for me. I didn’t go to bed until rather later than I intended, and it was once again a struggle to leave my bed. I’d been on a voyage too but it had gone right out of my head by the time that I was on my feet.<\/p>\n

This morning I had a few things to do – like deal with an upgrade to the laptop that somehow managed to wipe out the language settings on it. I had to fiddle around for a while until I could type the password in the correct character setting. And then I restarted it – and the language settings came back.<\/p>\n

Second thing to do was to upload Paint Shop Pro to this laptop. I’d forgotten that it wasn’t on board.<\/p>\n

Third thing was that I had had a message from the builder of Waterfox – the Firefox clone that I’ve been using. There’s a hidden link to the disabled utilities (and why it should be hidden I really don’t know) and he pointed me in the direction of where I can find the *.ftp program. It has to be configured by hand and it takes a while to do that but now it’s up and running.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that there were a few other things that I was doing this morning but I can’t for the life of me remember now what it was. I’m cracking up, aren’t I?<\/p>\n

After lunch I started to attack the previous blogs to upload the photos that I worked on yesterday. What with a pile of interruptions (including having a little … errr … relax on two occasions) I worked back as far as Saturday<\/a>. I’ll push on tomorrow and do the rest.<\/p>\n

\"fishing<\/a>It was a beautiful walk around the walls this afternoon.<\/p>\n

The tide was quite far in and the fishermen were out in their boats at the foot of the cliffs. These people here had a couple of rods and lines and were fishing with them from the boat.<\/p>\n

Not sure what they were catching though. But they seemed to be enjoying themselves anyway.
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\"beach<\/a>A little further on around the corner, the sun was shining on the beach down at the Plat Gousset.<\/p>\n

Although it was quite windy, the tide wasn’t in far enough to push the waves over the sea wall, so there were quite a few people out there taking advantage of the good weather and the sunshine.<\/p>\n

And the beach cabins have definitely gone too. I wonder if they take them away and store them out of the season and bring them back again next summer.
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\"baie<\/a>Out in the Baie de Mont St Michel the wind was whipping up nicely.<\/p>\n

Someone was out there in a sailing boat and it was really exciting to see the sails billowing out in the wind and pulling the yacht along at an impressive rate of knots.<\/p>\n

But you can see that there was a sea mist out there today.
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\"skyhook<\/a>You’ll remember a few months ago that there was an exhibition of paintings and photographs suspended from the town walls above the Place Maurice Marland.<\/p>\n

Today there was a tracked machine out there that looked as if it was there to take all of them down.<\/p>\n

That’s an exciting machine all right. I wouldn’t have minded having that down on the farm when I was living there. I could think of a thousand and one uses for it.
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\"normandy<\/a>That wasn’t all the excitement either.<\/p>\n

As I was walking by the walls above the harbour, I noticed Normandy Trader<\/em> down there. She must have sneaked in on the tide and I had missed her, and there she was setting off back out again.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t see what it was that she was carrying with her but I imagine that it was a mixed cargo as usual.
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\"grimaldi<\/a>It’s a little-known fact but an important claim to fame of the old medieval town of Granville that there’s a connection here with the royal family of Monaco.<\/p>\n

One of the ancestors of Prince Ranier was a girl who lived in the town and married into the Grimaldi family. That was the home of her family and there is a plaque on the side recording that Prince Ranier came here a few years ago.<\/p>\n

It looks as if they are now going to launch a programme of renovation on the family pile.
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\"normandy<\/a>By the time that I returned to my own family pile, I was thinking that the Normandy Trader<\/em> would be well out to sea by now.<\/p>\n

And so I coupled up the big zoom\/telephoto lens and went off a-wandering round to the Pointe du Roc.<\/p>\n

And there, setting off into the sunset against a backdrop of the Ile de Chausey was Normandy Trader<\/em>, en route<\/em> for Jersey.
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\"normandy<\/a>I took another photo of it with the lens at its fullest extent, and then back here cropped out Normandy Trader<\/em> and blew it (the crop, not the ship) up.<\/p>\n

I still can’t see what she is carrying, but the photo has come out quite well considering the distance over which I was working;<\/p>\n

When I returned to the apartment, Gribouille was outside and he let me pick him up for a stroke.
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Tea tonight was the rest of the falafel with pasta and vegetables in tomato sauce.<\/p>\n

\"port<\/a>After doing the washing-up, I went for my walk around the Pointe du Roc. And it’s freezing outside too. Winter draws on, and quite right too in this weather.<\/p>\n

The clear, still weather was great for photography and so I took a few photos of the night. The one that I took of the boats, the harbour and the lights came out really well.<\/p>\n

I particularly liked the reflection on the water of the red harbour gate light
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\"ship<\/a>And that’s not all either.<\/p>\n

Remember the other day when they were lifting that pink and white trawler up out of the water onto the quayside at the ship repair yard?<\/p>\n

Well, there she is now. Up on blocks now and a ladder up against the side. There’s obviously some work that needs to be done to it, and it looks as if they have already made a start.
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So back here now and I’m going to try yet again for another early night. Curled up under the blankets is the best place to be in this weather, I reckon.<\/p>\n

\"beach<\/a>
\nBeach Plat Gousset Granville
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\"beach<\/a>
\nThe beach down by the Casino at the Place Marechal Foch.
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\"normandy<\/a>
\nNormandy Trader<\/em> leaving Granville harbour on her way back to Jersey.
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\"normandy<\/a>
\nNormandy Trader<\/em> setting out for Jersey
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