{"id":11883,"date":"2019-03-05T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2022-01-07T07:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T07:46:06","slug":"tuesday-5th-march-2019-its-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11883","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 5th March 2019 – IT’S MARDI GRAS …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and there’s been the afternoon parade of floats around the town.<\/p>\n

But the day started off with me ignoring the alarms and staying in bed until about 07:20.<\/p>\n

Plenty of time to go off on a nocturnal ramble or two.<\/p>\n

We were having some kind of meeting at school with a few of the kids and I was on the interview panel. The first kid to be interviewed was my own daughter (which of course I don’t have, as far as I am aware) but was in fact Zero. I had to give her something of a lecture about one or two things that she hadn’t done, or had done incorrectly. And in the end I asked her if she was going to wait for me and we would go home together. That was what she wanted to do so I told her to wait “over there”. The next girl was a little think rake of a girl who had, apparently, failed her dancing exam. She’d put in a lot of effort and it was a shame that it hadn’t been rewarded. We needed to encourage her and bring her forward, and so we’d set up a little rehearsal lesson for her and one or two others. But this was going on far longer than it should have done and I ended up being worried about being late.<\/p>\n

Later on, there was a crowd of us with my father in his old black Zephyr 6 3816TD. We were bowling along down the motorway and hit a traffic queue that slowed everyone down. The third lane was open so we swerved into there and passed the obstruction but ended up crawling along behind some motorist going really slowly. Eventually we pushed him (metaphorically of course) out of the way and even in fourth gear, tried to pull away from almost a crawl. I was interested to see if the car would do it. I mentioned that if my father wanted to fit a diesel engine into the Zephyr I had a Peugeot 2.3 diesel lying around out of a Sierra (I actually do, believe it or not) and that would go in quite nicely, especially as now all of my plans had changed and I was not going to use it. My father came up with a few objections about how all of the gearing would be wrong and much too over-geared, but I remarked that it seems to be coping quite well with the 2.5 litre petrol engine that’s in there right now.<\/p>\n

We had the usual morning medication ritual, and later on a breakfast. Following which, I caught up with the outstanding photos from Sunday.<\/p>\n

One task that I’ve been trying to do on a kind-of ad-hoc casual basis is to go through a few of the older web pages and update them with stuff that I’ve discovered subsequently, or with photos from subsequent visits.<\/p>\n

I’d noticed that on one page from 2005 I’d missed a couple of photo shots that I had taken when I was there in September 2017, so this morning I attacked that web page and it’s now up-to-date<\/a> until the next revision.<\/p>\n

But here’s the exciting bit.<\/p>\n

I was looking for yet another paper, and this led to a major tidy-up in here and filing of papers. That took a good couple of hours and things are looking much more optimistic in here now.<\/p>\n

But surprisingly, while I was looking for something else, I came across the missing taxe d’habitation certificate for 2013. So that folder is now up to date and that’s good news.<\/p>\n

A whole pile of stuff ended up in the shredder too and that went down to the paper container outside, and another half-bag has been shredded in here too, for finishing off tomorrow.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I carried on tidying up in the bedroom and a lot of stuff has been put away. It’s certainly made a difference.<\/p>\n

Later on, I went down to the harbour to see the floats arriving from their lap around the town. I took plenty of photos and videos and I’ll sort those out tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\"fishing<\/a>The tide had turned while I was down there at the defil\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As I was climbing back up the rue des Juifs I noticed that all of the fishing boats were starting to come in on the tide.<\/p>\n

It was quite impressive watching them all come in in line-astern like this.
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\"fishing<\/a>And you can tell that the tide had only just started to come in.<\/p>\n

The channel is deepest nearest the left-hand side of the harbour entrance, and you can see that the fishing boats are keeping well over to that side of the entrance<\/p>\n

And you’ll notice at the bottom of the image the seagulls are forming a queue for the leavings
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With it being Mardi Gras, I had some taco rolls with stuffing and pasta, followed by apple pie and coconut-flavoured soya cream. That pie is getting better and better.<\/p>\n

\"night<\/a>Following that I went back into town.<\/p>\n

Despite the high winds, all of the big attractions at the fairground were in full flight, so I went down to photograph and film them.<\/p>\n

I was down there for a good hour or so with the big Nikon<\/a>\"\" taking photos and the Nikon 1 J5<\/a> taking the films.<\/p>\n


\"ambulanceOn the way back, I encountered something of a medical emergency in the rue des Juifs.<\/p>\n

There was an ambulance parked blocking the street, with the personnel attending to someone in the driving seat of a car parked by the pavement.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea what was going on ther, and it didn’t seem to be the bet moment to enquire
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Only a vague wave of fatigue today – no crashing out. So I’m off to bed now and hopefully I’ll have a good sleep ready for tomorrow and yet more work.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, If you want to see all of the photos from today, you need to go to THIS LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

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