{"id":11643,"date":"2019-02-08T21:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2019-02-08T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:54:39","slug":"friday-8th-february-2019-i-had-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11643","title":{"rendered":"Friday 8th February 2019 – I HAD A MESSAGE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… today on the telephone. “Your parcel will be delivered on 11th February”.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t have a delivery planned or an order outstanding so I didn’t have a clue what it might be. I suspected that it might be some kind of scam.<\/p>\n

But then I had another idea.<\/p>\n

I had a look at the British Government’s Public Service website. And sure enough – there on my private page is a little note “Passport Application status – ‘issued'”.<\/p>\n

That was quick – a lot less than the 6-week time limit that is advertised. That can only be good news. So after Monday, I can push on with a project that has been sitting on the back burner for several weeks.<\/p>\n

In view of my recent difficulties I decided last night to go to bed somewhat earlier than of late and even not set an alarm for the morning to give me an opportunity to sort myself out. And so waking up at 06:35 wasn’t really quite what I had in mind.<\/p>\n

That’s not the best of it either. I was awake at least three times during the night – once as early as 01:20. So you can see that I’m becoming rather fed up of this.<\/p>\n

Three different travels during the night too. The first one involved some woman who had been charged to make a meal – possibly a pie – for some kind of meeting. But as time passed on, it became clearer and clearer to everyone that she was an alcoholic and as time passed on she became less and less coherent until she ended up sitting there in an alcoholic stupor.
\nThe second part of the night’s activities involve me being in Macon, where I spent a summer once back in my youth. I was travelling somewhere which involved passing by the big airport at Lyon and so it involved taking the TGV but although we were certainly on the rails (which will come as a mjor surprise to regular readers of this rubbish) we were actually on board a coach.
\nThirdly, I don’t remember very much about this but it involved some woman and there was some passing reference to her connection with Shirley Temple – people were comparing her with that actress for some reason, although presumably not with Graham Green’s review.<\/p>\n

After breakfast I pushed on with the photo text database. What with one thing or another that took me right up until midday. And I’m now well back into December’s photos. It’ll keep me out of mischief for quite some time.<\/p>\n

There was an interruption at Midday though. Rosemary rang me up for a chat and we were on the phone putting the world to rights for a good hour and a half. Not that our ideas will ever be accepted by anyone – they are far too serious and sensible.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I cracked on with updating some of the blog entries. I’m now back as far as 23rd January<\/a> and there will be more done over the weekend if I’m not interrupted by other events.<\/p>\n

\"lifeboat<\/a>Talking of interruptions, I went out for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n

You can see what the weather was like simply by comparing this photo here with the photo taken from the same spot yesterday.<\/p>\n

There was a howling gale, a spattering of rain and it was freezing cold. Not the right kind of day to be out at all but I have to keep on keeping on, as Bob Dylan famously said<\/a>.
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\"lighthouse<\/a>One thing that occurred to me was that while I’ve been on my travels I haven’t taken a photograph of the lighthouse down the road just recently.<\/p>\n

You can also see one of the bunkers of the Atlantic Wall to the right of the lighthouse, and in the foreground is one of the emplacements for the large naval guns that were positioned here.<\/p>\n

You might also be able to see a cannon of some description immediately to the right of the lighthouse. there are several all dotted about, all of them damaged
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\"chantier<\/a>A little further around the Pointe du Roc there was a good vies of the tidal harbour.<\/p>\n

The tide was right out and all of the boats were aground on the mud bank.<\/p>\n

St Pair-sur-Mer is in the background shrouded in the mist, and on the right is the ship repairer’s.<\/p>\n

As for the objects in the foreground, I’m not sure what they might be. I reckon that they are lobster traps whereas others think that they might be dredging buckets.
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Back here I carried on with my work – until about 17:30 when, overwhelmed with fatigue, I crawled into bed for an hour or so.<\/p>\n

And then I was off on my travels. I was doing something and Rosemary was there. I had a cat, a black one but one that had the same shape as my grey one, and Rosemary was trying to pick it up. I ended up on a rafter going across the ceiling and the cat could only climb so far after me, so she took a flying leap – and missed, falling to the floor. But she found something else – a piece of wood – to climb up and come to join me on my rafter.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of sorry-looking potatoes left over in the kitchen so for tea I made a potato and lentil curry. Totally delicious it was too.<\/p>\n

\"storm<\/a>Outside later this evening, the wind wasn’t all that strong but the sea was probably the best that I have ever seen.<\/p>\n

The waves were totally astonishing – roaring up over the sea wall at the Plat Gousset and soaking just about everyone and everything down there.<\/p>\n

It seemed like hours, but it was only about five minutes that I was standing there watching them. It was quite hypnotic.<\/p>\n

On the way back, I bumped into someone who actually said “bonsoir”, and also Minette who had a little stroke.
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But now I’m going to go to bed. have a nice early night. Shopping tomorrow and I need to be on form. Not that I feel much like it.<\/p>\n

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