{"id":11661,"date":"2019-02-09T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T22:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2019-02-09T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T22:22:47","slug":"saturday-9th-february-2019-would-you-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11661","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 9th February 2019 &#8211; WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I had the choice of going out to watch US Granvillaise&#8217;s 2nd XI play football in a torrential downpour and hurricane, or to stay at home and watch on the internet a Welsh football match.<\/p>\n<p>And just like last time, I chose to stay at home and watch the football match from the comfort, warmth and safety of my own sofa.<\/p>\n<p>And just like last time, the match was abandoned due to a floodlight failure. .<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not my lucky subject, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, it&#8217;s not been a very good day today.<\/p>\n<p>It started reasonably well with me leaping from my bed at some kind of reasonable time. And after breakfast and a shower, I took out the plastic and glass rubbish and then headed for the hills.<\/p>\n<p>LIDL didn&#8217;t come up with anything special. And neither did NOZ &#8211; except that I managed to change the faulty guitar lead that I bought last week. Some nice coffee cups were probably the highlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902108.jpg\" alt=\"vegan croissants leclerc granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>But look at this from LeClerc.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen the vegan <em>pains au chocolat<\/em> from a few weeks ago, but now LeClerc is starting to sell vegan croissants. I&#8217;ve no idea what these are going to be like but the supermarkets need to be encouraged when they dip their toes into the vegan waters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for that reason too that I bought some tahini &#8211; sesame seed pur\u00e9e &#8211; that they have now started to sell.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Back here, I couldn&#8217;t summon up the energy to unpack the food. I had to sit down and have a coffee.<\/p>\n<p>When it came close to lunchtime, I made a pile of hummus. And I tell you what &#8211; I shan&#8217;t need to worry about vampires coming to visit me. The garlic seems to be extremely strong.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I made a start again on the text database but not for long. I was soon curled up under the bedclothes fast asleep. For at least 90 minutes too.<\/p>\n<p>And during that 90 minutes my mother &#8211; of all people &#8211; came to visit me. But I can&#8217;t remember what it was that we discussed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902107.jpg\" alt=\"pont aven brittany ferries st malo granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>nevertheless I went out for my afternoon walk. It was cold and windy, but there were quite a few people out there nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>And I saw something moving out here, away on the horizon, so I coupled up the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IXPa9G\" target=\"_blank\">70-300mm zoom lens<\/a> so that I could make further enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>After all, I was sure that it was a ship out there either going to or coming from St Malo, about 35 miles away.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902106.jpg\" alt=\"pont aven brittany ferries st malo granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Cropping out the photograph, blowing it up (which I can do despite modern anti-terrorism legislation) and digitally enhancing it, I could see that it&#8217;s one of the ships of Brittany Ferries.<\/p>\n<p>Having made further enquiries by reference to my live ships database (it&#8217;s quite a benefit hosting an AIS receiver here in my apartment) I can see that it&#8217;s <em>Pont Aven<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 2004, she&#8217;s one of the largest ferries on the English Channel, displacing 41,000 tonnes, and with a capacity of 650 vehicles and over 2400 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite likely that she&#8217;ll be one of the ferries that will be rerouted to Ireland after 29th March.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Back here I pressed on with adding some more photos to some of the earlier blog entries. I&#8217;m now back as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11563\" target=\"_blank\">15th January<\/a> and there&#8217;s still a long way to go;<\/p>\n<p>Tea was a handful of pasta with some veg and then I sat down to watch the football.<\/p>\n<p>With that being abandoned, I went off for an evening walk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902111.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>The storm was raging outside and the rain was teeming down.<\/p>\n<p>The sea was quite rough too but the wind had changed direction. Instead of blowing straight into the bay, it was blowing across the bay, so the waves weren&#8217;t breaking over the Plat Gousset as strongly as they have done.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed out there for as long as I could, but soaked to the skin, I headed for home.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I&#8217;m hoping to go to bed early and to have a decent sleep. I need one too because I&#8217;m having difficulty in keeping going right now.<\/p>\n<p>A nice lie-in will do me good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902109.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nstorm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902110.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nstorm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902112.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nstorm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902113.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nstorm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902114.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nstorm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1902\/1902115.jpg\" alt=\"storm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nstorm high seas plat gousset granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-11661 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='11661' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-11661 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-11661 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='11661' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-11661 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-11661 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I had the choice of going out to watch US Granvillaise&#8217;s 2nd XI play football in a torrential downpour and hurricane, or to stay at home and watch on the internet a Welsh football match. 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