{"id":12862,"date":"2019-12-08T23:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T23:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2019-12-21T15:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T15:18:51","slug":"sunday-8th-december-2019-i-really-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12862","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 8th December 2019 – I REALLY DON’T KNOW …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026 what is happening right now but the clock seems to be running down rather rapidly and I don\u2019t seem to be doing anything at all.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a huge backlog of work and I just don\u2019t seem to be getting through any of it.<\/p>\n

Last night I was up until some ridiculous hour sorting out the day\u2019s photos and videos. Much later than usual, and much later than I hoped, I tottered off to bed.<\/p>\n

There were a few travels during the night too. I\u2019d been on board the ship again that might have been The Good Ship Ve \u2026 errr \u2026 Ocean Endeavour and I\u2019d made friends with three different women and girls. I\u2019d been spending quite a lot of time with them. On the last night we had to leave the shop at about 03:00 and one of the girls \u2013 it might have been but I don\u2019t think it was Castor \u2013 said something like \u201cwhy don\u2019t you come down to my room tonight?\u201d Another one of the women had said exactly the same thing to me as well, so I replied that I\u2019d see how things develop. Then she discovered me on the deck of this other girl with my suitcase \u2013 quite obvious where I was going so she said \u201cyes will I see you or won\u2019t I?\u201d I said \u201cit\u2019s pretty hard to say. I have to go round to say my goodbyes to people\u201d \u2013 pretty non-committal as I had intended. Then we got talking about this third woman She was a flighty type and I hadn\u2019t seen her around that day. \u201cWhat happened to her?\u201d I asked. \u201cShe was supposed to be round her tonight too\u201d \u201cOhh she got sent home from the tour last night. Didn\u2019t you know?\u201d replied the first woman. \u201cAhh well\u201d I thought. \u201cThat\u2019s why I didn\u2019t see her\u201d. There was another couple on board the ship who talked to me (I had more passengers talk to me in my sleep last night that I did in the whole two months that I was really on board) and they talked about us going dancing. My attention fastened on the girl however so I said I\u2019d see how things develop. But things had obviously developed quite dramatically and quite rapidly after that as I wasn\u2019t allowed to see this girl at all. I was basically shunted off into this corner and it was too late to make arrangements with anyone else. We all filed off the ship, the last day, last morning. I bumped into someone. \u201cHey, did you hear about such and such a woman\u201d the conversation went. \u201cWhat happened to her?\u201d \u201cShe got sent home\u201d all the usual kind of gossip. We were waiting near a tram stop and I noticed that Castor (so it very likely was Castor earlier) was actually standing at the stop waiting for a tram. I thought it\u2019s our final day and we\u2019re all going. Now that Castor is on her own whould I go over and speak to her, try to make my peace and salvage something of what had all gone wrong. I was debating things \u2013 should I or shouldn\u2019t I go over there? In the end I decided that I would. Someone asked \u201care you coming up to us, Eric?\u201d I said that I\u2019d see how I feel but I have one or two things to organise. I thought that with Castor I could just go for a walk around the town, a chat anything, as long as we were together but that was when I awoke at that particular moment. This was another one of these occasions, of which there have been far too many just recently, where I have been plagued by a wicked kind of indecision during the night and it\u2019s becoming quite a regular pattern. However, the bit about being too late when I finally make up my mind is rather a new twist to this although it does have quite a bit of relevance.
\nThere was also a bit somewhere in here about us on the docks and we had to go to the islands. Some were going to the British islands of course and the trader but I was going to the little offshore island. I can\u2019t remember his name but the girl came out to see me go, found me in the state of a swamp and got the girl Crystal to come and take over the business. Of course they didn\u2019t want you and your party to be there. They wanted the glory that came from the Government but without the other party being there too, and make it happen (anf if you can understand any of that garbled nonsense, please let me know).
\nSomewhat later I was at some hotel in Germany in a Bavarian type of setting there and had to go to the airport and call a taxi. It needed to be quick and the taxi turned up. I had tons of luggage and the driver was just wedging it into the boot any old how so I had a word with him about that. Then we set off for the airport and then I don\u2019t remember very much about this after that.
\nLater still I was given my shopping list \u2013 a pile of potatoes, at least 10 really thick milk of +10% and coffee. When I came back the barrels of coffee had been arranged like an entrance to the town and this was upsetting one or two people. Someone made the remark that Americans aren\u2019t like this but I said that there is certainly some who are and anyone who has ever read anything I\u2019ve written will know that while I\u2019m pretty much opposed to the USA I\u2019ve always said that when I\u2019ve found Americans on their own I\u2019ve found them very nice, friendly and charming people.<\/p>\n

As you can see, it was a very busy night last night. Quite exhausting in fact so it will be no surprise to anyone that when I awoke at 07:30 I simply turned over and went back to bed. 09:45 is much more like it on a Sunday.<\/p>\n

By the time that I was wined and dined etc, it was almost 11:00 and the first thing that I did, that I haven\u2019t done for a while, was to back up the computer. I\u2019ve been somewhat lax from that point of view just recently and I can\u2019t afford to make to many errors in this respect.<\/p>\n

That took longer than it should have done too so there wasn\u2019t much time left to start yesterday\u2019s blog before I had to go down into town to buy my dejeunette for lunch.<\/p>\n

\"shellfish<\/a>The harbour gates were closed so I could walk that way round on the walkway over the top of the gates and around the harbour.<\/p>\n

And I’m glad that I went that way too because while I was standing on the edge of the harbour looking at some of the fishing equipment I fell in with a couple of people of the fisherman-type who clearly knew what they were talking about, so I seized the opportunity to ask them about this equipment that has been puzzling me for quite a while.<\/p>\n

And they are indeed shellfish dredgers. They scape them along the sea bed to uproot the shellfish. The shellfish stay in the cage but the silt is washed out.
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\"chausiais<\/a>So having satisfied myself on that score I could move on.<\/p>\n

Chausiais<\/em> is now back in her berth, moored in the inner harbour next to her fellow ship Joly France<\/em>, so we could say “hello” to her, and then push on to the shops to buy my dejeunette<\/em> for lunch.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly a good idea for me to come out in the morning-ish for my lunchtime dejeunette<\/em> every day. I need to exercise much more than I do and this is all good for me.
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After lunch I carried on with the blog entry \u2013 just one of the five or six things that I needed to do today before I did anything else, but ran out of time before I\u2019d even finished that one.<\/p>\n

Liz and Terry are leaving in a few days so I\u2019d been invited round there to Roncey for tea. Rather embarrassing because Liz\u2019s birthday present hasn\u2019t arrived yet and neither have their Christmas presents.<\/p>\n

But never mind. Off I went into the wind and rain (strangely enugh, coming back with my bread earlier I\u2019d been thinking to myself that the walks seemed to have missed most of the rainstorms just recently, and almost immediately the rain had started up), stopping at LeClerc to fill up with diesel.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a thing. The diesel that I put in prior to this was put in in March, and the time before that was 8th October last year. And neither of those three fills was filled right up. In a little over 13 months I\u2019ve travelled about 700kms \u2013 a far cry from the first two years when I owned Caliburn and did 66,000 kms.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a good while since I had the chance to have a good chat to Liz and Terry \u2013 so much so that it was almost 22:00 by the time that I left. Left with a carrier bag too because not only was there my Christmas present (more of which anon) but the remains of the meal- vegetable wellington with carrots, broccoli and fried parsnips. And apple turnover cake too.<\/p>\n

They do look after me, and it\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n

So a drive back here and it\u2019s very late and I\u2019ve still not caught up with everything. Yesterday\u2019s blog is still in a \u201cto be continued\u201d state, I\u2019ve not done today\u2019s photographs and, even worse, this week\u2019s project is far from finished and it needs to be done by 09:15 tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t do it now because I\u2019m far too tired and I\u2019ll just make mistakes.<\/p>\n

Looks as if an early start is on the cards.<\/p>\n

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