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<\/a>In the middle of everything I downed tools and went off to do my shopping in LIDL.<\/p>\nAnd here’s a classic example of why living within the walls of a medieval walled city is not always a good idea. Having everything delivered, like a lorry-load of furniture or a lorry-load of cement, creates quite a logistical challenge.<\/p>\n
They aren’t always easy to solve either.
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And I don’t know if you have noticed, that underneath the cement chute there’s a large plastic sheet – presumably to stop the overflow of cement fouling the roadway.<\/p>\n So round the corner and right into the teeth of the gale, one of the strongest winds that we’ve had to date. At LIDL I didn’t want very much. I don’t these days, going there three times each week, but I do it for the exercise more than anything else as regular readers of this rubbish will recall.<\/p>\n Last time that I was here they had just finished erecting a crane in the Impasse de la Corderie so I was keen to see what was going on today.<\/p>\n It looks as if they are having a load of breeze blocks delivered and they are about to be craned into position, so someone is having a house extension of some kind. But I had a little stop when I got to the place that overlooks the harbour, because there was a weird danse macabre<\/em> going on in the tidal harbour.<\/p>\n Yes, it looks as if, for once, I’ve caught Chausiais<\/em> on the move. It’s intriguing me because what freight that has had to go over to the island in the past has gone over quite comfortably on the ferries.<\/p>\n So why a freighter? My opinion is that the owner has a cunning plan, and it might have something to do with the fact that Brexit isn’t all that far away.<\/p>\n But we shall see. But here we have another load of workmen with a mini-digger and a pile of these one-ton reusable sacks. It finally does look as if they are cleaning up here ready to close down the chantier<\/em><\/p>\n That will be a job well-done. Here is one of the little fishing boats heading out to sea. And just look at the waves, almost swamping the poor thing. And that’s only a hundred yards outside the harbour in the shelter of the sea wall.<\/p>\n Imagine what it’s going to be like out in the open sea. It gives you an idea of how the rough weather is right now. Back here, I carried on with my project and that took me until well past lunchtime, but I didn’t want to stop until it was completed. And as I said earlier, it sounds pretty good to me.<\/p>\n After lunch I pushed on with the arrears. There were 50 photos of Leuven’s Christmas lights – clearly far too many to go on a blog page.<\/p>\n And so I sat down and quickly wrote a web page<\/a> that features all of them, and you can see them at your leisure.<\/p>\n At that point I rather regrettably dozed off, and sat blot upright 10 minutes later at 15:50. late for my walk again.<\/p>\n Out at sea in the English Channel there was something moving around. I couldn’t see what it was so I took a random photo, hoping to be able to blow it up (the photo, not the object) back home to see what it might be.<\/p>\n It’s probably one of these small fishing boats that ply their trade out of the harbour, or else it’s Chausiais<\/em> and she’s farther out at sea that I think she is. Spirit of Conrad<\/em> is still there up on her blocks, and the trawler that they winched out of the water yesterday is now up on blocks too and there are a couple of people working on her.<\/p>\n It doesn’t look as if she is going to be in there long either, I reckon, so we might be having another change of resident in early course. Right now they are making rapid progress and they have a small lorry there, with the digger dumping loads of rubbish into the back.<\/p>\n And I don’t know what happened to the photo there, because it’s not one of my best. Not by a long way either. After a coffee, I changed a light bulb (I’ve no idea why these IKEA LED lights aren’t lasting as long as I was expecting) and then cracked on amending Sunday’s blog.<\/p>\n Not all of the photos of the Traversee de Paris are in there because, as I explained yesterday, there were far too many, and I told you where to go<\/a> if you want to see them.<\/p>\n Half-way through, I broke off because it was tea time. Stuffed pepper, it was, and it was delicious. Followed by rice pudding too that made it even better.<\/p>\n And I cans afely say without fear of contradiction that I have never seen as many fishing boats out there in the English Channel as I did tonight.<\/p>\n In fact I counted a dozen in easy view, and there may even have been more if the white lights on the horizon weren’t St Helier.<\/p>\n It puzzles me because I’m sure that i’ve never seen as many right out there in earlier years.<\/a>What they were having to do is to have a fleet of some kind of machines fitted with hoppers, and discharge the cement into the hoppers for onward transport into wherever they might be going.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>On the way back I went via the big Eglise St Paul to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>having picked up my dejeunette<\/em> I headed on back up the rue des Juifs towards home, nearly stepping on someone’s dalmatian.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>She carried on with her little dance for a good 10 minutes as I watched, and then took herself off into the corner where the pier is for the ferries that go over to the Ile de Chausey.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Earlier on, we saw workmen with the concrete mixer up by the Porte de St Jean.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Now that Chausiais<\/em> has finished her dance and is moored up at her post, the rest of the boats here can move around.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Nevertheless I took myself out into the wicked wind to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Round the headland where the wind was even more fierce, I passed by the Chantier Navale<\/em> and had a look to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Earlier this morning I mentioned that they were clearing up the site where they had been repairing the city walls.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>And then my evening walk.<\/p>\n
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