{"id":12796,"date":"2019-11-13T21:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2019-11-13T21:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:52:36","slug":"wednesday-13th-november-2019-i-havent-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12796","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 13th November 2019 &#8211; I HAVEN&#8217;T BEEN &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for any of my usual walks today, and neither have I taken any photos.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that I&#8217;ve been really busy today what with one thing and another (and once you get started, you&#8217;ll be surprised at just how many other things there are).<\/p>\n<p>Last night wasn&#8217;t as early a night as I was expecting. 00:30 and I was still up and about. Mind you, I was soon in bed and off on another journey or two. And why is it that as soon as I reach for the dictaphone I lose immediately any recollection of what it is that i&#8217;m doing or have been doing?<br \/>\nBut whatever it was, later on I was in bed and I heard this noise or scrambling going on and I started to wake up, and it was Claire Brierley of all people saying to someone &#8220;I&#8217;m sending the taxi back for him and it&#8217;ll be ready at 08:55&#8221;. So I wondered what the heck was going on so I thought that I&#8217;d better get up. So I got up and dressed just in time to see her disappearing in a yellow and white two-tone taxi, an old Austin A40 &#8220;Cambridge&#8221;, this square type with round rear lights. Off they went and I went downstairs and loitered around for a bit. It suddenly occurred to me that it was the office party (&#8230; office trip?&#8230;) and they were leaving at 09:05 and no-one had woken me up and I don&#8217;t know why. So it got to 08:55 and the taxi hadn&#8217;t turned up, and 09:00 and at 09:05 he turned up. I the meantime, I think that someone (Joanie and her mother?) had been going through the old taxi records that we had been keeping and she had been asking questions about the fares, like &#8220;today to go from (&#8230; somewhere &#8230;) to Crewe railway station is \u00a31:75. How much was it in your day?&#8221; I replied &#8220;\u00a31:10 or something&#8221; and we had quite a long chat about that. Anyway eventually my taxi arrived and there was this thing in Canada about tipping locally &#8211; make sure that you give a good tip, for that way your money stays with the driver and stays local and can work its way back through the economy again. I looked at my cash and for a cheap fare I&#8217;d be giving him a huge tip by proportion. I can&#8217;t remember whether or not I got into the taxi but I was back where I started from in like a church hall or something  &#8211; a generic church hall with thick brick pillars protruding from the walls and so on. A little girl was there so I said to her &#8220;go on, sing me a nursery rhyme&#8221; but she came out with some kind of fantasy poem. In the end Nicole (what&#8217;s she doing here?), who was her mother got her to say a little poem for me which was very nice.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s enough of that. I beat the third alarm again and went for an early medication and breakfast. Following which, I bit the bullet and sat down with these dictaphone note that I have been trying to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>And I was right about something that I said back at the time &#8211; and that is that they will make interesting reading. And I&#8217;m beginning to see what was going on in my subconscious during that particular time.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh well &#8211; that&#8217;s 7 of them out of the way. Only another 100 to go, and I hope that they don&#8217;t make as much grim reading as that last 7 of them did. Otherwise I&#8217;ll be back to where I was in my head four or five weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:00 I was picked up by this guy who drove me to Coudeville-Plage to see (a video of) this musician. I&#8217;m not sure what that was all about at all but it wasn&#8217;t what I was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>He brought me back to Granville but I hopped out in the town. I had to pick up a parcel from the Post Office (my microphones have come) and also a baguette for lunch. And I found, to my delight, that the local boulangerie does what it calls <em>dejeunettes<\/em>, two-thirds-size baguettes for \u20ac0:50. Exactly the size that I need for my lunch.<\/p>\n<p>And this home-made hummus that I made the other day is wicked. I&#8217;m enjoying every mouthful of it and there is plenty more to come.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon there were a few things to do and then Caliburn and I set off. We had things to do.<\/p>\n<p>First call was at the Tax Office. I&#8217;ve had a reminder that I hadn&#8217;t filled in a tax return. If you think that going in to pick one up is easy, then you&#8217;re in for a big surprise. I had to queue for over half an hour just to see the receptionist.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t give me a form over the counter. &#8220;Ohh no!&#8221; I had to go to see his colleague.<\/p>\n<p>There was a queue in front of me and for about 20 minutes it didn&#8217;t move an inch. Eventually I thought &#8220;badger this for a game of soldiers. I&#8217;ll miss the Post&#8221;. I headed off back to Caliburn and we drove out of town to the big central sorting office for this region and dropped off my parcel.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the Tax Office to resume my place in the queue and wait for another 20 minutes until I was seen. All in all I reckoned that it was about an hour and a half between my initial arrival and being seen.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, I couldn&#8217;t have a Tax Return. The woman there told me what she needed me to supply and told me to bring it back. But one thing is certain &#8211; and that is that after all of this performance I&#8217;ll be registering on-line to do it next year.<\/p>\n<p>Back here, I needed to complete the paperwork for the parcel that I had sent back and also to deal with the website updates. The Norse in Newfoundland can wait until the end &#8211; I did another 20 pages elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve found to my dismay that I&#8217;ve left off something from the header menu. But then, this is why I went into Javascript, so that I can amend just one file and it will update everything else.<\/p>\n<p>At least, I hope that it will.<\/p>\n<p>For tea I finished off the stuffing from the other night, and finished off the taco rolls as well. I&#8217;ll have to buy some more of them because they are nice.<\/p>\n<p>No walk this evening, so my fitbit is going to make depressing reading. But it can&#8217;t be helped. Instead, I&#8217;ve been downloading some digital music for some of the albums that I own. Dozens of it, in fact. And I&#8217;m finding albums that I didn&#8217;t even realise that I owned.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough of this. I&#8217;m off to bed. An early start in the morning because I mustn&#8217;t forget that my train leaves half an hour earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p>And I want to be on it.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-12796 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='12796' data-nonce='ea79402942' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-12796 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-12796 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='12796' data-nonce='ea79402942' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-12796 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-12796 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for any of my usual walks today, and neither have I taken any photos. The fact is that I&#8217;ve been really busy today what with one thing and another (and once you get started, you&#8217;ll be surprised at just how many other things there are). Last night wasn&#8217;t as early a night as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8683,44,4507,1616,8571,7876,1046,1044],"tags":[9958,8690,1305,212,2560,8486,5565,8581,3166,206,13119,6339,9640,11106,7891,1047,1392,1049],"class_list":["post-12796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coudeville-plage","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","category-post-office","category-tax-office","tag-claire","tag-coudeville-plage","tag-dictaphone","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-fitbit","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-home-made-hummus","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-javascript","tag-joan","tag-joanie_malcolm","tag-nicole-gerard","tag-place-darmes","tag-post-office-2","tag-railway-station","tag-tax-office-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12797,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}