{"id":13180,"date":"2020-04-03T21:31:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13180"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:31:33","slug":"friday-3rd-april-2020-while-you-all-admire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13180","title":{"rendered":"Friday 3rd April 2020 – WHILE YOU ALL ADMIRE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sunset<\/a>… the photos of the beautiful sunset this evening, let me tell you something about my day today<\/p>\n

Just for a change, I actually struggled to my feet before the third alarm went off and when it did ring, I was sitting on the edge of the bed half-dressed. That’s definitely an improvement.<\/p>\n

And then, after the medication, I had a look at the dictaphone to see where I had been during the night. And that was something of a disappointment, I have to say.
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\"sunset<\/a>I was walking past a big block of flats right by where I lived where there was a big car park. On this car park were two or three really exotic vehicles of a type that I had never seen before and coming onto the car park was another one with two motorcycles accompanying it. The parked it up in a kind of alcove in the far corner. I went down to ask permission to photograph them seeing as the owners were there otherwise I just wouldn’t bother – I’d take the photos anyway. But there was a party or celebration, like a christening something like that and so I went to ask someone if the owners were around. They kept me hanging on for a minute and in the end someone beckoned someone over. And so I asked the question but he seemed to be completely and utterly distant and wasn’t on this planet at all. He was holding up his hand as if for silence, just standing like that for about 20 minutes and it was impossible to get any kind of sense out of him at all. All these cars and motor bikes, Triumph 350 “bathtub” kind of motor bikes, were all kind-of metallic duck-egg blue colour.<\/p>\n

And that, I’m afraid, was the lot. Hardly on a par with what has been going on over the last few days, but at least it meant that I had a good sleep for a change, I suppose.
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\"sunset<\/a>After breakfast, I attacked the digital file-splitting.<\/p>\n

Today, it was something of a challenge. For two albums, there was not a trace of anything available anywhere. I know that they are obscure – in fact I bought one of them in a library sale for \u00a30:60 simply on the strength that I knew one of the guitarists, but I was expecting to find at least something.<\/p>\n

It must mean that I have the only copies of these albums still in existence.
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\"sunset<\/a>Despite the setback, it was still slow going and I had to ferret round for a couple of files for those as well because one or two were not easy to find.<\/p>\n

Mind you, it wasn’t all bad news. I came across an album that I don’t ever remember playing – or, at least had I ever played it I would certainly have remembered it because I hadn’t realised just how good it was.<\/p>\n

With a break for a coffee I carried on working and then checked my mails. And Laurent had replied to me with his observations, his recorded speech and the written speech that he wanted me to dictate.
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\"sunset<\/a>And so I dictated my part of the speech, listened to it, didn’t like it, throw it away and do it again.<\/p>\n

Once I’d arrived at something that I liked that matched Laurent’s intonation, I then had to merge it in with his speech so that we had a “question and answer ping-pong”.<\/p>\n

The next bit wasn’t quite so easy. I had to crop our dialogue into segments and merge it into the recorded speech. And in some places, there was no pause in which to insert it, so I learnt quite a lot, not the least of which was how to convert a mono recording into stereo
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\"sunset<\/a>There was then the music to insert into the affair, and luckily I’d prepared that a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n

Finally, there was the background ambience, including seagull noises, to add in. And once all of that was done, I could join it all into a continuous stream.<\/p>\n

There’s just short of 28 minutes of recording there and, even though I say it myself, it’s one of the best things that I’ve done for quite some time and I’m really happy.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping that Laurent is too. It’s currently with him so that he can approve it, and then I’ll upload it.
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\"sunset<\/a>There was a break for lunch of course, and there was no bread in the house.<\/p>\n

And apart from the fact that I didn’t have the time, I couldn’t leave the apartment either as I was expecting a parcel delivery and I’d already missed it once.<\/p>\n

But all was not lost. I’d bought an extra pack of taco rolls for just this kind of emergency and a couple of those made a most acceptable substitute.
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\"sunset<\/a>While I was out there picking up my parcel, one of my neighbours was on her way in.<\/p>\n

We ended up having quite a chat for a considerable time discussing the current situation and we came to the conclusion that the least that could be said for the situation is that it’s giving the planet a chance to recover.<\/p>\n

There was some stuffing left over from my stuffed pepper the other day, so I added a small tin of kidney beans (a good decision that was to buy those the other day) and some more tomato sauce to that and had yet more taco tolls, but with spicy rice and vegetables.<\/p>\n

Apple pie and ice cream with chocolate sauce for pudding. Totally delicious too.
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\"footpath<\/a>On my walk tonight I had a look around and it was strange to see everywhere so deserted and with “footpath closed signs” everwhere.<\/p>\n

We were however quite a crowd – all keeping the regulation distance – at the Pointe du Roc watching the beautiful sunset. One guy, with whom I was having quite a chat, told me that he came out on the same day every month to take a photo of the sunset, as he was aiming to superimpose them so as to show the progress of the sun throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the girl from last night wasn’t there. So that’s going to remain a big mystery, I reckon.
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\"floating<\/a>But here’s a thing.<\/p>\n

As I rounded the headland I saw something large floating around in the water. Too large for a seabird, I thought that it might have been a seal or something so I took a photo of it in order to have a closer look.<\/p>\n

And even so, I’ve no idea what it might be. Possibly one of these plastic 25-litre drums of some description discarded, or possibly blow by the recent gales into the sea.
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\"strange<\/a>One thing that regular readers of this rubbish will recall is the strange patterns that we sometimes see in the sea.<\/p>\n

There were several more tonight that piqued my attention and I wish that I knew what they were all about. But they are certainly quite strange.<\/p>\n

And in other news, I managed four runs yet again tonight. There were a couple of people around as well but I didn’t really care. And I’m hoping that I can keep this going, these four runs, for as long as I can. I have to make more of an effort.
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Another thing about which I have to make more of an effort is having a good, early night. Too late now for the “early” but it could still be “good”.<\/p>\n

Shopping tomorrow and then I really MUST finish off these radio projects ready to start on the next two for the following week. I mistn’t lag behind.<\/p>\n

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