{"id":11441,"date":"2018-12-04T21:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2019-02-27T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:04:48","slug":"4th-december-2018-five-screens-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11441","title":{"rendered":"4th December 2018 – FIVE SCREENS OF DEATH …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and that’s my lot today. The desktop computer seems to have been working so much better today. Especially as all 5 of these screens of death occurred in the last half-hour as I tried to use the Duplicate File Finder program to eliminate the duplicate files.<\/p>\n

Because there were thousands of those. You have no idea of how many hidden directories and partitions I have found. Loads of files for which I have been searching for years and many of which I have even forgotten all about.<\/p>\n

Most of them have now made it onto the portable hard drive and when the desktop computer has cooled down tomorrow I’ll have another run through it and see what else I have missed.<\/p>\n

But there won’t be much time tomorrow though, because I’m going out in the afternoon. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I had a considerable amount of health issues over Christmas last year and I don’t want to have the same this year. And so I have made an appointment to have a ‘flu injection.<\/p>\n

It’s free here (at least, I am reimbursed 100% for it) so as much as I hate the idea of injections, I’m going to have it. And I hope it works.<\/p>\n

But back to the computer again.<\/p>\n

I had it running again last night and it was doing so well that I let it go. And it was at about 02:30 when I finally decided to switch it off and go to bed.<\/p>\n

So even though the alarm went off this morning at the usual time, I took little notice. It was more like 07:45 when I came round far enough to haul myself out of bed. And as a result it was a rather late breakfast.<\/p>\n

Once all of the nonsense was out of the way I have spent all day with the big computer extracting the files. I’m doing it while the doing is good because I’m not sure how long it will keep going.<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>We had lunch of course, indoors these days, and then a little later, it was time for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n

Neptune<\/em> was still in the harbour but Thora<\/em> must have crept in on the morning tide because she was on the point of leaving the port at 16:00.<\/p>\n

For a while I stood around watching her manoeuvre and I took several photos of her passing out.
<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>By the time I got back home I could see Thora<\/em> rounding the headland of the Pointe du Roc and heading out to sea past the Ile de Chausey<\/p>\n

Opportunity for a good photo was looming so I loitered around for half an hour and took several photos of her disappearing into the sunset.<\/p>\n

And given the lighting and weather conditions out there, some of them came out quite well.<\/p>\n

On the way back, I bumped into Gribouille. He came for his stroke but could smell Minette on me from last night so he wasn’t too impressed.
<\/p>\n

The laptop was playing some of the old-time radio shows in the background while I was working.<\/p>\n

And you have to admire Leslie Charteris. We had another episode of The Saint with my favourite Simon Templar, Paul Rhys in the title r\u00f4le.<\/p>\n

And we had the immortal exchange of conversation
\n” ‘Orace, old chap. Things have been a bit dull for a while. Do you feel like a spot of action?”
\n“I’ll just load the revolver, sir”
\nYou can’t beat the good old days.<\/p>\n

Tea tonight was a vegan burger on a bap with the last of the potatoes. And talking of potatoes, when I went to open the pineapple slices for pudding, I found that I had opened the tin of new potatoes instead. It’s not my day, is it?<\/p>\n

But that soya dessert stuff that I had bought – it went down really well with the pineapple slices when I eventually opened the correct tin.<\/p>\n

\"night<\/a>Just me again on my evening walk tonight.<\/p>\n

Neptune<\/em> was still at her quay with her hydraulic hatches wide open.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure of where they are up to with loading her but things must be progressing and she’ll probably be on her way tomorrow if they get a move on. I’ve never known her loiter in port for this long.
<\/p>\n

\"crane<\/a>But there’s something else going on round by the place Maurice Marland just right now.<\/p>\n

There has been talk of some kind of repairs to the city walls but tonight I tripped over some kind of crane or machine that was just dumped here without any warning.<\/p>\n

And it’s pretty dark down here at night, you know. I could have done myself a mischief.
<\/p>\n

\"christmas<\/a>But the Christmas decorations around the town are advancing.<\/p>\n

In the rue Paul Poirier, where I lived when I first came here, they have been out stringing up the fairy lights.<\/p>\n

And it all looks quite pretty down there right now with the overhead lights in the foreground and the artificial palm trees in the background.<\/p>\n

Round the corner in the rue Notre Dame Minette was sitting on the roof of a van. In order to come down to my level, she sat on her rear end and slid down the windscreen. I haven’t seen anything as funny as that for quite some considerable time.
<\/p>\n

With no desktop computer right now (it’s cooling down) I’m going to have an early night. After my exertions last night I reckon that I deserve it.<\/p>\n

\"breville<\/a>
\nbreville sur mer brehal granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"breville<\/a>
\nbreville sur mer brehal granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"holiday<\/a>
\nholiday camp donville les bains granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"trawler<\/a>
\ntrawler cancale baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"trawler<\/a>
\ntrawler cancale baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"trawlers<\/a>
\ntrawlers baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"trawler<\/a>
\ntrawler baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"neptune<\/a>
\nneptune thora port de granville harbour manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>
\nthora port de granville harbour manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>
\nthora granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>
\nthora ile de chausey granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>
\nthora ile de chausey granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"north<\/a>
\nnorth end ile de chausey semaphore lighthouse granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"thora<\/a>
\nthora ile de chausey granville manche normandy france
\n
<\/p>\n

\"thora<\/a>
\nthora fishing boat ile de chausey granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"crane<\/a>
\ncrane place maurice marland granville manche normandy france
\n
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\"night<\/a>
\nnight neptune port de granville harbour manche normandy france
\n
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