{"id":11895,"date":"2019-03-07T21:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2019-03-07T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:52:39","slug":"thursday-7th-march-2019-were-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11895","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 7th March 2019 – WE’RE IN THE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"night<\/a>… grip of another major storm here.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that the weather station by the lighthouse here recorded one of the strongest blasts of wind ever registered in France.<\/p>\n

And while it’s not anything like that windy (it’s quite easy to move about) there must be a really strong wind blowing somewhere out to sea
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\"night<\/a>Standing on the old medieval walls overlooking the Plat Gousset, it was a really impressive sight watching the waves go smashing over the sea wall and crashing down on the promenade over there.<\/p>\n

The power and force that there must be in the sea could power the whole of the world many times over if it were properly harnessed, that’s for sure.
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Just for a change I managed to sleep right the way through until the alarms went off. Although I wasn’t in too much of a hurry to leave the bed.<\/p>\n

I’d been on a travel too during the night. Something to do with some kind of outrageous posting made to a group of which I am a member in a French Social network. It unravelled itself into a scenario where I hd various packets of flour and so on and some olives and I was having to put them into different jars, and becoming confused to such an extent that I ended up with the olives in the flour and wondering how I could separate them.<\/p>\n

After the medication and breakfast I had a good shower, a clean-up and a change of clothes, and then headed off to town.<\/p>\n

\"recycling<\/a>I didn’t actually get too far though.<\/p>\n

Right outside the door the recycling lorry had just finished emptying one of the containers.<\/p>\n

I loitered for a while to see if if was going to empty another container, but in the end I had to clear off.
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\"thora<\/a>On the city walls in the rue des Juifs, I had a look down into the harbour.<\/p>\n

I thought that I detected some lights down there last night but I wasn’t sure, but sure enough, it looks as if Thora<\/em> came in on the evening tide yesterday.<\/p>\n

It was pretty quiet down there though today. They didn’t seem to be doing much working.
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\"fairground<\/a>Through the town and up the rue Couraye, I headed for the station to pick up my tickets for Leuven next week.<\/p>\n

ON the square outside the station though there’s another small fairground. I remembered this from last year as soon as I saw it.<\/p>\n

A shame though that I hadn’t remembered it on Tuesday evening when I was around the town at night taking photographs.
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At LIDL I spent \u20ac16:00, about half of which was spent on batteries. They are having another sale of AA and AAA batteries and I’m running low on them. Most of the ones here date from about 12 years ago when I had the old Pentax K100D<\/a>\"\" and they are not performing as they should.<\/p>\n

Seeing as I put coriander in my apple pie the other day, I looked around and found some cinnamon (and also some ground nutmeg) and so I’ve added them to the shopping basket ready for the next round of cooking. I fancy an apple crumble next.<\/p>\n

\"new<\/a>On the way home, I went down the rue Sainte Genevieve.<\/p>\n

There’s another house-building project going on down there and I’ve been keeping my eye on that over the last few months.<\/p>\n

They aren’t far off finishing it now. A coat of rendering will make it look so much better.
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Back here, I unpacked the shopping and put it away. Not very often that I feel like doing that straight away.<\/p>\n

There were a few things that needed doing today. Firstly, to change the hit counter over on the web pages that I did yesterday. I’d put the wrong one on there.<\/p>\n

And then there was the question of working back over the blog entries for the last few days and adding some of the photos.<\/p>\n

In between all of this, there was lunch to arrange. And as I had forgotten to defrost the hummus in the freezer I ended up eating more cheese from the supplies. I’ll have to buy some more in Leuven.<\/p>\n

\"waves<\/a>Outside this afternoon, the wind had increased in velocity from this morning.<\/p>\n

Not unpleasantly so, but there was an impressive sea building up with loads of whitecaps.<\/p>\n

“Building up quite nicely for this evening” I mused. And I was right too, as you have seen.
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\"la<\/a>Anyway, I carried on with my walk around the headland, and paused for a moment to see what was going on down in the chantier navale<\/em><\/p>\n

Armor<\/em> is still there, with her hull still in aluminium but the deck superstructure looks as if it’s been painted white now.<\/p>\n

And La Granvillaise<\/em> is stil there too, with a couple of the volunteers working on her. That’s going to be a big job, preparing her for the coming tourist season.
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\"thora<\/a>Further on round the headland, and over there down in the port Thora<\/em> is still at her station alongside the quay.<\/p>\n

She seems to have been loaded with some stuff since I saw her earlier this morning so I’ll be expecting her to move out at high tide later on this evening when the harbour gates open.
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Back here I had a couple of mugs of hot chocolate to warm me up and then did a whole pile of shredding.<\/p>\n

One huge load has gone out to the container and there’s a half-a-load now waiting, but the shredder seems not to be coping with the volume of work that I’m expecting it to do.<\/p>\n

I’ve had to dismantle … “disPERSONtle” – ed<\/em> …it a couple of times to clean out a paper jam.<\/p>\n

But by about 17:00 I’d have enough and I was in bed asleep for a good 90 minutes, which was a complete surprise following the amount of sleep that i’d had.<\/p>\n

Tea was a slice of the leek and tofu pie from a few weeks ago. And it really was delicious, with potatoes, vegetables and gravy. Followed by apple pie and the coconut-flavoured soya dessert stuff.<\/p>\n

\"night<\/a>This evening, I was alone again on my walk around the walls. No-one else seems to be keen to go for a post-prandial somnambulation.<\/p>\n

I stayed of a good 15 minutes watching the storm break on the Plat Gousset and took a pile of photos.<\/p>\n

And then I came back and edited all of them.
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\"trawler<\/a>On the way back though, I had a look over into the harbour.<\/p>\n

There was a trawler up by the fish processing plant, busily unloading its catch.<\/p>\n

And Thora<\/em> was still in port too. It looks as if she’s going to be in here for a while then. There must be something going on.
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So now, I’m off to bed, always assuming that I can go to sleep after my little repose earlier.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, now that I’m up-to-date, I can start back into my programme of revision of October’s blog entries and see where that takes me.<\/p>\n

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