{"id":12385,"date":"2019-06-22T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:21:49","slug":"saturday-22nd-june-2019-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12385","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 22nd June 2019 – FOR THE FIRST TIME …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… this year as far as I am able to tell, it actually felt like summer today.<\/p>\n

And it’s been a long time coming, especially now that the solstice has been and gone.<\/p>\n

Last night I didn’t get much sleep at all but whatever I had was certainly a deep sleep. I slept right through without moving until the alarm went off, and I lay abed until about 06:45<\/p>\n

There were definitely some nocturnal voyages at some point, but they disappeared out of my head before I even had time to grab hold of the dictaphone.<\/p>\n

After the medication and breakfast I did a little (only a little) tidying up and took the rubbish out to the bins. This idea of having a much smaller bin in the kitchen seems to work because it was full after only a week and I was obliged to take it out. With the bigger one, there was a tendency for the rubbish in there to hang around so long that it walked out of the apartment on its own.<\/p>\n

Liz and Terry came round and while Terry went off to finish a job at brigitte’s, Liz and I went to the bar for a coffee. Terry joined us later and we had a lengthy chat about nothing in particular.<\/p>\n

Later we went to LeClerc where I did a little shopping, and then we went for lunch. I had chips with a side-salad.<\/p>\n

back here, Liz and Terry dropped me off and I came in to crack on with the dictaphone notes.<\/p>\n

By the time that tea-time came round, I’d reduced the outstanding number to 25. I’m hoping for a good day free from interruptions and if so, I’ll be in a position to finish this before I go away on Thursday morning, which will be nice.<\/p>\n

Tea tonight was out of a tin. I had a fancy for some spicy beans so I had a tinful with some rice and vegetables followed by the leftover pineapple rings and cocnut soya cream.<\/p>\n

\"boats<\/a>When I’d gone out with Liz and Terry earlier in the morning, I’d seen lots of boats out in the Baie de Mont St Michel and the English Channel.<\/p>\n

So when I went out this evening I took the camera, hoping to see another pile of naval craft out there on the water.<\/p>\n

And I wasn’t going to be disappointed at all.
<\/p>\n

\"boats<\/a>There were dozens of water craft out there this evening, ranging from jetskis out to full-blown three-master yachts.<\/p>\n

Due to the distance and range I couldn’t see which yacht the two-master might be. I’m wondering if it might be La Granvillaise<\/em> having an evening out, but I couldn’t really be sure.<\/p>\n

But there’s a zodiac-type of craft in the foreground just there, and doesn’t that bring back many happy memories of last September up in the High Arctic?
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\"lys<\/a>But here’s a boat that we all recognise, even if we haven’t seen her since a fleeting glimpse last summer.<\/p>\n

By definition, she’s actually a yawl and was built in 1914 in Arcachon down in South-West France for a German owner but was seized as war reparations.<\/p>\n

She fell on hard times and was laid up in the 1980s, before being saved in 1990 and subsequently underwent a complete refit.
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\"chantier<\/a>Talking of complete refits, I went for a look around in the chantier navale<\/em> to see what was going on.<\/p>\n

The long-term trawler has now disappeared. Maybe they have finished it and it’s gone back into the water.<\/p>\n

Instead, alongside the Belle de Carentan<\/em> we seem to have acquired one of the lightweight fishing boats of the type that goes out for the more-inshore varieties of aquatic life.<\/p>\n

One day, I’ll have to actually go and find out what it is that boats like these bring in.<
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\"marite<\/a>Last night, I was certain that I saw a silhouette of three tall masts in the harbour.<\/p>\n

And I wasn’t wrong. Marit\u00e9<\/em> has turned up back in port. Apparently she came in yesterday afternoon from Cherbourg just after 15:30, but I don’t recall seeing her as I came back from my afternoon out.<\/p>\n

One of these days I shall have to go for a sail out in her, even though I don’t think all that much of the people who represent the organisation.
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Tomorrow is Sunday and this is going to be my very last lie-in for quite some considerable time. I hope that I make the most of it.<\/p>\n

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