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<\/a>But we had some more excitement in the Tiensestraat today.<\/p>\nA couple of vehicles were not parked very prettily and this coach couldn’t pass through the gap, even with a group of people guiding him.<\/p>\n
And so we had a klaxon session until someone came a-running to move his vehicle.
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The Grote Markt in between the Sint Pieterskerk and the Stadhuis was blocked off and there were workmen all about.<\/p>\n It seems to me that they are starting to set out the Square ready for all of the Christmas decorations. I’ll have to come by here tonight and see what they are doing. The hospital was like an oven and as soon as I entered I had to strip off. And halfway down the corridor I realised that I must have left my hat on the chair by the door so I had to go back for it.<\/p>\n And there it was – with two people, who had been there when I had divested myself, staring at it. Why they hadn’t called out to me as I had left there I really don’t know.<\/p>\n Every time that I had been to the hospital for this session of treatment my appointment has been for 09:50. And 09:50 is clearly written on my appointment letter.<\/p>\n And every time that I’ve been to the hospital I’d been early. Today was no exception, and I was there for 09:30. But a closer inspection of my letter showed that my appointment of 09:50 was for the visit on 24th December. For today, a couple of lines higher up and I hadn’t noticed, was my appointment for today. 09:10.<\/p>\n Ahhh well.<\/p>\n There wasn’t a seat for me either so I ended up eventually in one of the side wards on a chair. But about an hour later, the nurse came to fetch me. Today’s doctor is the one whom I don’t really like. He doesn’t have a bedside manner and seems to be rather casual and offhand. And so he was today. He didn’t tell me very much at all.<\/p>\n On my way back into town I called at the Asian supermarket and bought some hot chili powder and some ground coriander. I’m running a little low on them back home.<\/p>\n And I went into Delhaize for stuff for tea and then the Loving Hut for some more vegan cheese.<\/p>\n There were all kinds of vehicles, cherry pickers and the like, in the Brusselsestraat, stringing up all kinds of decorations across the street.<\/p>\n With the trees being illuminated, it looks a little better than the Tiensestraat. That’s all nicely draped in Christmas lights now and I stood wand watched them for a while as they changed colour from red to blue to green and all kinds of shades in between.<\/p>\n It looks much more impressive that it did last year. There now seems to be heaps of soil about. A couple of Christmas trees had been “planted” and some booths have been erected.<\/p>\n Presumably they are about to set up the creche and the rest of the Christmas decorations. They usually do quite an impressive job here, and I’ll be able to tell you much more about it in due course as I’ll be here over Christmas. We’ve already seen one example of this in the Tiensestraat this morning, and here’s another one.<\/p>\n There’s a parking place free here, but this van driver has decided to park across an entry, half in the street blocking the traffic, because he can’t be bothered to park properly.<\/p>\n It really is rather sad, isn’t it? Back in my little room I had a message from Alison to say that she was back early from Oostende and did I fancy going for a meal? So I put on my coat and went back out again.<\/p>\n There weren’t all that many people in there tonight and that’s a surprise. The food is good and very reasonably-priced, and they know all about allergies too.<\/p>\n We both chose the vegan Jalapeno burger with potato wedges and it was thoroughly delicious After all, quite a few things have happened since we last saw each other and some of these things are quite important.<\/p>\n But once we had put the world to rights we went for a walk around the Grote Markt to admire theChristmas decorations and lights. But nevertheless, we thought that a coffee was in order so we wandered off to Kloosters Hotel in the Predikherenstraat where there is an open fire.<\/p>\n An open fire and a coffee are just the things to warm us up on a damp and wet evening like tonight. It was quite late by now so I didn’t do too much at all. I’m having a Day of Rest tomorrow but that’s still no reason not to go to bed so I called it a day.<\/p>\n I’ll see what excitement tomorrow will bring me.<\/a>There were all kinds of perturbations in the town centre.<\/p>\n
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\nNurse – “Come along Mr Hall. There’s a nice comfy chair free now. And it’s an electric one too”.
\nOur Hero – “and I thought that you liked me!”<\/p>\n<\/a>On the way though, I stopped off to have a good look at the Christmas decorations and lights.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/a>They’ve made a good start on the Town Hall – the Stadhuis – too.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>I went back to the Grote Markt too, to see what they had been doing throughout the day.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that bad parking features quite regularly in these pages.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>While you admire the Christmas lights in the Grote Markt, Alison and I met up at our usual rendezvous and went off to the Greenway Restaurant for food.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/a>We spent a lot of time in there having a good chat because we had a lot to say to each other.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>It wasn’t all that cold out there tonight, which makes a change.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Later on, we walked down to Alison’s car and she brought me back here<\/p>\n
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