Well, the secretary phoned me back today. Apparently the Maire<\/em> has taken on board my remarks, made a few enquiries and come back to me.<\/p>\n I wasn’t expecting that, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n It’s not advanced things very much, as I didn’t expect that it would, but having someone like the Maire<\/em> on your side is a comfort in these difficult times.<\/p>\n And difficult times they are.<\/p>\n Being completely wound up last night as I was, I was still up working at 02:00, totally unable to sleep. More like 02:30 when I went to bed,. And as for sleep, well, there wasn’t very much of that. I was tossing and turning all night.<\/p>\n There was enough time to go off on a travel. I was in Greece in some kind of primitive caf\u00e9 helping with moral support (although what support I could ever give anyone would be considered as being moral) some girl who was trying to run it despite all of the opposition and difficulties that her family – the nominal owners – were putting in her path. The strange thing was that when the alarms went off, I totally ignored them and stayed in bed. And although I was by now awake, the journey carried on. And carried on for miles too from exactly the same place where I awoke. Not something that happens every day.<\/p>\n By 09:25 I was ready to awaken, and straight into controversy yet again where a couple of self-important auto-sycophants were bragging about how they had “briefed” a politician and “won a famous victory for UK citizens in Europe” by getting him to look at at. Completely oblivious of the fact that the EU had thrown out this idea weeks ago.<\/p>\n And so this totally shameless display of self-serving egocentricity caused me to explode yet again. And even deeper into the abyss.<\/p>\n I went for a very late breakfast after that. and then came back to start on the blog and the text database.<\/p>\n But not for long, because the Mairie<\/em> interrupted me.<\/p>\n And then, almost immediately, another phone call from someone else who is on my list of things to do.<\/p>\n This started me off on a wave of work. From somewhere, I summoned up a piece of energy so went on a tidy-up in the bedroom.<\/p>\n Bank statements are fairly tidy now and I found a couple of other papers. And so I then sat down, made a few more phone calls, sent out some e-mails and wrote a letter too.<\/p>\n It may sound not much, but it certainly made an impression on the stuff in here.<\/p>\n My lunch was a light one, and that made me feel a little better.<\/p>\n I did manage to do some work on the photos and the database. Not a lot, but I’m back as far as 18th October 2018<\/a>. It’s going a little quicker than I was expecting.<\/p>\n I went around the headland at the Pointe du Roc through the crowds and hordes of tourists up there<\/p>\n And there was a beautiful view across the harbour right over to the coast on the far side by the Cale de Hacqueville. The boat that is on there is in fact La Granvillaise<\/em> – a yacht that we have seen on many occasions around the harbour.<\/p>\n She’s been taken out of the water for a complete refit and overhaul by the volunteers, and she’s going to be there for a while. They’ve stripped off most of the old paint, and are currently giving it a good go over in white primer, ready presumably for its top coat.<\/p>\n They have put a lot of work into it. It will look good when it’s finished. Here I could admire the stage that they had erected the other day. Events will be getting under way tonight, although I won’t be down there.<\/p>\n Instead, I went to the Post Office and sent off the letter that I had written. It won’t go until Monday afternoon but it needs to be on its way. And there was a weird commotion going on behind me.<\/p>\n Some woman pulled up in her car, shouted to a passer-by “watch my vehicle” and ran off down the road shouting “Chantal” or something.<\/p>\n Everyone was standing around there shaking their heads. Back here, I had a pleasant surprise. A friend of mine in the UK has sent me a little present for my birthday to help me along my way. That was just so very thoughtful of him and I’m overwhelmed.<\/p>\n Tea was a small stuffed pepper with a little rice followed by a pot of soya dessert and a banana.<\/p>\n And then football. The Welsh Cup, Caernarfon Town v Connah’s Quay Nomads.<\/p>\n Connah’s Quay were strangely subdued, michael Wilde was at walking pace and Callum Saunders was somewhere else in his mind, I think.<\/p>\n But Caernarfon seem to have gone off the boil too – a shadow of the impressive hard-working side of earlier in the season.<\/p>\n The Nomads won 2-1, but it was a very long game.<\/p>\n So it’s bedtime now.<\/p>\n I’m feeling a little better, and maybe a decent sleep might cheer me up again.<\/p>\n It’s Carnaval tomorrow.<\/p>\n And I seem to have lost one of the camera gloves that my friend Liz bought me for my birthday of 2008. I’m dismayed.<\/p>\n![\"cale](\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903002.jpg\")
<\/a>Later on in the afternoon I went for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>There were quite a few people at the Chantier Navale<\/em>, loitering around that big wooden boat that I mentioned last time, so I went over for a chat.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>While I was down there at the Chantier Navale<\/em>, I went over to have a look at Armor<\/em> – the ship from the diving place down the Brittany coast.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>My route into town took me past the place Charles de Gaulle.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"ferry](\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903009.jpg\")
<\/a>Back up the hill, I stopped to watch one of the ferries from the Ile de Chausey coming into port.<\/p>\n
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