{"id":11567,"date":"2019-01-17T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11567"},"modified":"2019-02-09T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:28:13","slug":"thursday-17th-january-2019-what-do-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11567","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 17th January 2019 – WHAT DO I DO …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… now that I can’t find my passport anywhere?<\/p>\n

This is really going to throw a spanner in the works, this is.<\/p>\n

Last time that I physically remember having it, I had to produce it to a German ticket inspector on the train from K\u00f6ln to Aachen to prove my entitlement to a reduced fare.<\/p>\n

I must have had it here though because a form that I had to fill in last week, I had to enter my passport number on it.<\/p>\n

It might have been at the bank when I was there on Thursday last week, but I phoned them to ask and they don’t have it.<\/p>\n

It seems that these days I’m taking one step forward and two steps back.<\/p>\n

The alarms went off as usual this morning, but I simply turned over and went back to sleep again. It was 08:10 when I finally crawled out of bed.<\/p>\n

I’d been on my travels too although I don’t remember too much about them. There were two young girls, aged about 12 or so, in a caf\u00e9 and one was carrying a very large baby doll. She went up to the counter, pretending that the doll that she was carrying was a real baby, and asked piteously if the caf\u00e9 would buy her a cup of coffee because she was a single mother with no money. The waiter served her a coffee, and I was interested to see how she would share this out with her friend.<\/p>\n

There was a quick morning routine followed by a quick shower and a whirl of the washing machine (I’m running low on clothes) and then off up town in the rain showers.<\/p>\n

First port of call was the Post Office where I posted off the letter that I wrote yesterday. I wonder how long it will be before I receive a reply. And I hope that it’s positive news. As Ludicrus said in Up Pompeii<\/a>\"\" , It’s been a long time since I’ve had any.<\/p>\n

Second stop was LIDL. I didn’t buy all that much but it was still an expensive do. There were a couple of really decent notebooks that I need for a project. But there was also a clip-on LED lamp that works as a nice office light. Only 2.5 watts instead of the 60 watt bulb in the ceiling, but gives twice as much light. I was talking about getting something for quite a while.<\/p>\n

Back home, I had a coffee, unpacked the shopping and installed the LED light. It works quite nicely and I’m quite pleased with it.<\/p>\n

This afternoon after lunch I finished off the photos from December and then made a start on those from January.<\/p>\n

But I was sidetracked. I received a Press Release from the French Government outlining the French plans for British nationals in the event of a Hard Brexit. It’s quite a comprehensive document with some useful information so I reckoned that it would be a good idea to print it out and keep it with my passport.<\/p>\n

And now we started the circus.<\/p>\n

Tea was a potato and lentil curry dating from January last year. And delicious it was too.<\/p>\n

\"new<\/a>It was quite windy outside. There were a few people walking around the headland after lunch.<\/p>\n

And the mystery of what they were doing with that area of paving on the car park by the lighthouse is revealed. They were erecting a tourist information sign there.<\/p>\n

There has been some talk about opening up the old bunkers of the Atlantic Wall so that tourists might visit. But they went through a great deal of effort and expended an enormous amount of manpower in putting up that simple sign.
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\"fibre<\/a>But once again, not a soul – not even a cat – out there this evening. But I did notice that they are digging up the roads in the Medieval town just down the road.<\/p>\n

There are signs all over the old town saying that the Fibre-Optic cabling is “ongoing”, and it looks as if it might be here any day now.<\/p>\n

But when we are actually hooked up, that’s anyone’s guess.
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And as I expected, I lost the internet connection half a dozen times today. So I might end up having to connect it with a cable after all.<\/p>\n

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