{"id":13233,"date":"2020-04-26T21:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13233"},"modified":"2020-04-27T20:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:11:46","slug":"sunday-26th-april-2020-regular-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13233","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 26th April 2020 – REGULAR READERS …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"home<\/a>… of this rubbish will recall that yesterday I mentioned that I was going to have a baking day today.<\/p>\n

And so I did too – and here’s the result.<\/p>\n

There’s<\/p>\n

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  1. a loaf of bread (thanks to Catherine for the recipe)<\/li>\n
  2. a vegan pizza made with my own dough (and credit to whoever gave me the recipe – I forget now<\/li>\n
  3. a blackberry pie (pastry out of a roll<\/li>\n
  4. an apple turnover (to use up the remains of the two rolls of pastry)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In fact I made enough pizza dough for three pizza and as I’m told that it will freeze well, it’s in the freezer and I’ll find out next week if it really does.<\/p>\n

    The bread didn’t really work out. It certainly rose, although nothing like as much as I hoped that it would, and I’m going to need a pneumatic drill to get through the crust.<\/p>\n

    But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and we’ll see tomorrow at lunchtime how it went. I shan’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t work out – it’s my first ever go and you can’t win a coconut every time.<\/p>\n

    However, the pizza did, and I was impressed by that.
    <\/p>\n

    What else I was impressed with was that I was actually up and about at a more reasonable 10:15 this morning rather than the near-midday of just recently. Much as I like – and enjoy very much – a good lie-in, there’s no need to take it to extremes.<\/p>\n

    Unless, of course, there was someone else, young and nubile of the female, lying in with me, and then that would be a completely different matter entirely.<\/p>\n

    Ohh yes – I can still chase after the women at my age. I just can’t remember why.<\/p>\n

    And that reminds me of when i was chatting to Rosemary the other day saying that I haven’t seen that mystery girl since we crossed each other’s path while out running a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

    Rosemary asked my why I didn’t turn round and run after her. My response was that if I had managed to catch her, I wouldn’t have been in any fit state to do anything about it.<\/p>\n

    After the meds I had a listen to the dictaphone to see where I’d been during the night and who had been there with me. So hello to you again, Castor.<\/p>\n

    I was back playing guitar again, playing bass for someone. We hadn’t rehearsed or anything. Castor was involved in this. But it wasn’t really Castor but some other group of girls a bit like those two in that Agatha Christie Poirot play about the cruise ship in the Eastern Mediterranean. But when we came to leave The Good Ship Ve … errr … Ocean Endeavour we were almost the last to leave and I walked up to the top – I must have been somewhere and seen a lot of people – but I walked up on the top deck ready to come off and there were kids “where’s so-and-so?” their friend or father or someone. “He’s waiting for you. You’ve been downstairs since 08:30”. They said “he’s gone down for a sleep”. I said “no, he’s waiting for you ready to go” so they all piled into grandfather’s car ready to leave. They invited a few of us round to their house afterwards so we were allowed to go. They had even invited me which was a surprise so I set off there as well with a couple of other people. There was much more to it than this but I really can’t remember it now and in any case, you’re probably eating your tea now or something.
    \nSome time later I’d been packing up ready to leave The Good Ship Ve … errr … Ocean Endeavour last night. I had a load of tinned food stuff and was getting a carrier bag ready to carry it out. I thought that this would be much easier in plastic bottles than metal tins isn’t it to move it. And then some of the product, I can’t remember what, dated back to 1970 from Chile and the time when Allende was making a secret treaty between the Chileans, the Russians and the Americans and no-one ever talked about the sell-out by Allende at all.
    \nLater still I was at a quiz show on the television and the call went out for all of the studio to be evacuated so everyone ran out except for me. We’d been examining bottles of fizzy water and one of the bottles swelled up dramatically and was about to burst. I just put it on the floor and put a wooden box on the top and stood on the wooden box. When it burst it burst inside the box and shook me around a bit but there was no damage done to anywhere. People came back in and I told them what had happened.<\/p>\n

    Yes, that was a pretty comprehensive voyage or two or three during the night.<\/p>\n

    With the time that it took to deal with all of the foregoing it was a late breakfast. More like an early lunch if the truth is known. And afterwards I attacked the digitalised file project. Two more albums went the Way of the West today. A couple of complications but in the end I managed to sort things out.<\/p>\n

    There wasn’t a great deal of time though for editing photos. Only 25 or so but many of them today were cropped out of larger images and I imagine that only about half were actual original images.<\/p>\n

    As an aside for this, I’m currently on image 0860. A similar image from my first run through on a one-for-one basis was image 0723 so it shows just how many croppings there have been.<\/p>\n

    Incidentally, that’s for the 11th July. One-third or so of the way through the month.<\/p>\n

    There was a break for a snack at about 14:30 and then I had my culinary session. Like I say, the bread could be better but for a first try I don’t think that it’s too bad. I shall have to work on it and maybe have better luck with the next loaf, because I’m intending to keep on trying if I can.<\/p>\n

    Tea was, of course, the pizza (delicious) followed by the last of the apple crumble. Tomorrow’s pudding will be the apple turnover and then after that I’ll start on the pie.<\/p>\n

    There’s absolutely no doubt about it – I’m eating so much better these days than ever I have been (except for those three months when Liz and Terry took me in).<\/p>\n

    \"sea<\/a>After the washing-up (three loads of it of course this evening) I went off for my evening runs.<\/p>\n

    No-one about at all on my travels and that’s hardly a surprise as it wasn’t the kind of day that you would be expecting to see people. It was a cool evening but cloudy and overcast with a heavy sea mist.<\/p>\n

    It wasn’t the day for photography at all so there are very few photos of this evening’s activities.
    <\/p>\n

    \"hotel<\/a>Having recovered my breath from my runs up the hill and then down to the cliffs, I had my third run along the clifftop on the south side of the headland overlooking the town.<\/p>\n

    Nothing much happening down there at all. The place was as dead as a do-do. I could see right across the port, past the hotel and out up the street alongside the beach. All that I could see was just one person walking along the quayside.<\/p>\n

    Who knows? maybe people have realised that the solution to this problem is in their own hands. The number of new cases of this virus is falling dramatically and we might even be on target for Liberation on 11th may if this keeps up.
    <\/p>\n

    \"unloading<\/a>But there was someone else out there whom I missed but slamming his van door like that, it drew my attention to him.<\/p>\n

    He was unloading equipment from that fishing boat just there, putting it in his van and driving away.<\/p>\n

    At the viewpoint at the rue du Port there was a small group of people hoping to see the sunset. No-one whom I recognised, and not keeping their “social distance” either.<\/p>\n

    But there was no chance of them seeing the sunset. The heavy cloud and mist obscured everything.
    <\/p>\n

    \"jcb<\/a>There was however a piece of machinery parked higher up the rue du Nord in the Place du March\u00e9 aux Chevaux.<\/p>\n

    It crept into a photo while I was photographing something else and I didn’t take much notice of it until I returned home.<\/p>\n

    No idea what it is so I’ll have to go tomorrow for a proper nosey and make further enquiries about it.<\/p>\n

    But not now. I have a couple of thing to do and then i’m off to bed. I can’t wait to try my loaf tomorrow and see how it went. I’m not too optimistic but we shall see.
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