{"id":12682,"date":"2019-10-12T02:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T02:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12682"},"modified":"2019-10-13T01:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T01:28:32","slug":"friday-11th-october-2019-remember-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12682","title":{"rendered":"Friday 11th October 2019 – REMEMBER YESTERDAY …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… when I wrote about the evil (because there is no other word to describe it) humour in which I found myself?<\/p>\n

Today I was rather hoping that I might have been over it, put it all behind me and moved on. But looking back over some of the stuff that I had written in an internet debate this morning, that’s clearly not the case because much of what I wrote, even though it reflected my true feelings, can best be described as “incendiary”.<\/p>\n

It’s no surprise either because there was that much turmoil going on in my head that even at 01:30 the thought of going to bed hadn’t even occurred to me. I spent most of the night wide-awake.<\/p>\n

There was some sleep of some kind though, because there are one or two items on the dictaphone. And when I get round to listening to them, it should be extremely interesting to say the least.<\/p>\n

The alarms went off at the usual time but I didn’t. 07:15 again for me and this is getting monotonous. The school run too this morning and for a change I had Hannah’s Golf diesel.<\/p>\n

So that’s now everything around here that I have driven at one time or another, and my favourite is still Rachel’s Golf estate, although the VWs are far too low for me and difficult to get out of.<\/p>\n

Rushed off our feet again today. The place is closed for the weekend and on Monday so everyone wanted their supplies and work done today. I ended up shunting cars around, hauling bags of feed about and going to the bank.<\/p>\n

And I’m right about tiredness too. Despite my dreadful night I kept on going all day with only a brief pause, not like yesterday when I was stark out. I was expecting to be much more exhausted today.<\/p>\n

Excitement up on the railway line at the back of the depot. The old station was formerly a tractor-pulling venue but it’s up for sale. It seems that the fixtures and fittings have been sold and there were people up there dismantling the grandstand in order to move it to Grand Falls.<\/p>\n

This evening there was just Darren and me. He had an omelette and I found some leftover vegan meatloaf in the fridge, followed by apple crumble.<\/p>\n

later, I was reviewing some postings from my Arctic voyage. A few (well, one particular) memory came flooding back to me and so I decided to listen to some music to distract me and to soothe my fevered brow. It wasn’t a particularly good choice though. I played Colosseum Live<\/a>\"\", which will forever be associated in my brain with late, dark, cold nights on board The Good Ship Ve … errr … Ocean Endeavour in the High Arctic, and that is exactly what I’m trying to put out of my mind.<\/p>\n

Yes, events in the High Arctic have scarred me somewhat and I can’t chase them out of my mind. It’s all very well listening to Joachim du Bellay and that I should be “Heureux qui comme Ulysse a fait un beau voyage”, I’m more inclined right now to the words of the Duke of Marlborough who, on his way to fight at (thinks) Malplaquet, said “God knows I go with a heavy heart, for I have no hope of doing anything considerable”. Or even John Major’s legendary “When your back’s against the wall it’s time to turn round and fight”.<\/p>\n

On that note, I’ll go to bed, I reckon. I’ve had a hard couple of days now that demons whom I thought that I had laid have now come back to haunt me. I have to remember, I suppose, that today I really should have been in hospital having a blood transfusion – having already missed three. Bit I’m missing this one too.<\/p>\n

Who knows what state I’ll be in when I finally return home?<\/p>\n

Perhaps I need some more music
\nAll of the sudden she disappears
\njust yesterday she was here
\nsomebody tell me if I am sleeping
\nsomeone should be with me here
\nI wanna be the last thing you hear when you’re falling asleep….<\/em><\/p>\n

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