{"id":13200,"date":"2020-04-13T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13200"},"modified":"2020-04-13T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:59:28","slug":"monday-13th-april-2020-it-was-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13200","title":{"rendered":"Monday 13th April 2020 – IT WAS HARD …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… this evening going for my runs.<\/p>\n

It’s a lot colder than it has been of late and a pair of gloves and a hat would have made a great deal of positive difference to my comfort this evening.<\/p>\n

But really what was to blame for it all was the howling gale. A couple of my runs, including the longest one, was right into the teeth of the gale and while I managed to accomplish them all, including the little additional extra metres that I’ve been doing. But I certainly knew all about it by the time that I returned home and I don’t want to have to do it again in a hurry.<\/p>\n

A Bank Holiday today, of course. Easter Monday. And so I celebrated by having a lie-in. And in a change from just recently, it was actually only about 07:45 when I awoke.<\/p>\n

Even more interestingly, it was 08:15 when I left my bed too. Not the best lie-ins that I’ve had, but some of them just recently have been somewhat excessive, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall.<\/p>\n

Nothing on the dictaphone either, as I found when I went to check it after the medication. So it must have been a decent night’s sleep too.<\/p>\n

After breakfast (and my last hot cross bun) I made a start on the digital sound files. I’m on the cassettes now of course and by the time that I’d finished, I’d dealt with another 4 albums.<\/p>\n

Three of them went quite quickly and I didn’t have time to deal with many of the Iceland photos. But of course there’s always one that is a struggle and it took me an age to sort it out, to find the files that I needed, to get them to download and then to convert them to *.mp3.<\/p>\n

But having done that, I could start (better late than never) on the next two radio projects.<\/p>\n

Despite having a stop for lunch, by the time I came to knocking off at 18:00, I’d chosen all of the music for both projects, joined them up into pairs as I would usually do, and even made a start on writing the text. I don’t know where this sudden energy has come from.<\/p>\n

For my hour on the guitars, I’ve made a start on writing another song. I’ve been a bit quiet on that front since November. I was warming up, just running through a few chords, and a certain chord pattern caught my attention. I had a little work on it and while I was doing so, a lyric pattern that fitted it came into my head too.<\/p>\n

So half an hour on the 6-string and half an hour on the bass working around it to see where I finished. There will be a lot more to it of course, and then I have to work out the drumming to it now that I have my electronic drum kit.<\/p>\n

Tea was a stuffed pepper followed by some of the apple pie that I baked yesterday, with soya coconut whatsit. And it was all really delicious too.<\/p>\n

\"trawler<\/a>That was the cue for me to go outside for my evening’s exercise.<\/p>\n

It was still quite light while I was out there and the sun was a good 20 minutes or so from setting. But there was a fishing boat out there, presumably having left the port and heading off to the fishing grounds somewhere out by the Channel Islands.<\/p>\n

Here’s a nice photo of her, disappearing off into the sunset. And into the haze too.
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\"trawlers<\/a>Yes, nothing like as clear as it was yesterday which is a shame.<\/p>\n

But regular readers of this rubbish will recall that last night there were the three (or four) lights of fishing boats down in the Baie de Mont St Michel where I wouldn’t really expect to see them. But there they are again tonight.<\/p>\n

In the light and with the NIKON D500<\/a> and the 70-300mm LENS<\/a> I could see them clearly. There are seagulls around them too so they are certainly out there working.
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\"trawlers<\/a>There were another few fishing boats out there too, but I suspect that these two are hovering around the harbour entrance maybe waiting for the tide.<\/p>\n

Mind you, their working lights are on too and they are also surrounded by seagulls. So even if they aren’t actually working right now, they must have full loads and they are sorting the cargo.<\/p>\n

Struggling against the headwind as I did, I finally made it back to my apartment, totally wasted. And Rosemarie rang me up so we had a lengthy chat about nothing in particular. But then that’s what friends are all about.
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And that’s why I’m late doing this – not that I’m objecting of course.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow, back at a full day’s work, alarms and everything. And who knows? I might even make progress. Stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n

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