After all, he still runs perfectly well and i’d rather pay \u20ac1,000 for some bodywork than \u20ac20,000 for a new replacement. I’d asked the guy at the garage if he knew of a carrosserie<\/em> and he said that there was someone, so I went today to pick up the ‘phone number.<\/p>\n Things were rather confusing at NOZ today. I’m not sure how they did their pricing but nothing that I bought seemed to be at the price that was indicated. Not that I’m complaining, because it was all in my favour.<\/p>\n They had more of those breaded soya fillets so I bought another box.<\/p>\n LeClerc was absolutely heaving – uncomfortably so. And I spent more than I usually would but there were several reasons, not the least being that in the bulk buying section they had quite a few things that I would ordinarily buy but on special offer too for bulk lots and they were the kind of things that keep without problem.<\/p>\n Furthermore, yeast was back on the shelves. So here’s hoping that I have better luck with my baking with yeast with an expiry date of 10\/21 than I have had with yeast with an expiry date of 11\/18.<\/p>\n Back here I had a coffee and then had a look at the web page that I’d rewritten.<\/p>\n And by the time I came to knock off, I’d<\/p>\n Yes, I’ve been very busy today.<\/p>\n There were the usual breaks of course.<\/p>\n No lizards today but there was no question of being alone. Apart from the fact that there was a relentless stream of pedestrians going past, there was plenty of action on the water too.<\/p>\n And not only that. While I was taking a photograph of the scenery, I was photo-bombed by a seagull. Serves me right, I suppose. The purpose of this photo, which would otherwise be filed under CS, is to show you another flash of sunlight on a window. That’s round by Hirel in Brittany and is about 20-25 miles away as the crow flies.<\/p>\n Hence the poor quality of the photo. After all, you can’t have everything, can you? There was certainly plenty to see out there today. Including Chausiais<\/em>, who seems to have put down roots in that rather ad-hoc<\/em> mooring position over there at right angles to the ferry terminal.<\/p>\n However, there wasn’t much time for me to enjoy it as I had planty of of other things to do, like completing the editing of the (now) three web pages that I had prepared. Another break was for football. In 2008 the current broadcasting company won the rights to broadcast the live football matches in the Welsh Premier League.<\/p>\n Today they were showing the very first match that they broadcast, Rhyl v Llanelli. Rhyl’s ground has always been an excellent one, but the standard of football was surprisingly good for 2008. Real throbbing end-to-end stuff and I was exhausted just watching it.<\/p>\n Rhyl won the match 5-1 which suggests a right spannering, but although the best team won, Llanelli can feel quite rightly hard done-to by the result. There was never four goals difference between the teams.<\/p>\n Mind you, I did … errr … miss a couple of minutes of the match.<\/p>\n Regular readers of this rubbish will recall seeing yesterday how clear the sea was. And it was just the same today. When I saw from a distance this woman standing on her surfboard, it looked as if the surfboard was hovering above the ground. You couldn’t see the sea at all, it was so clear.<\/p>\n And I know that there’s a name for that sport that she is practising. I just can’t think what it is. Only a few people “installing themselves” on the beach (in defiance of regulations until Tuesday) but the water is fair game to everyone and there were hordes of people taking full advantage of it.<\/p>\n And who can blame them? Given half a chance I’d be in there too. Only up to my knees of course, but nevertheless … Down the coast at Donville-les-Bains and round at the camp-site near Breville-sur-Mer they were all out there too.<\/p>\n That’s actually quite a nice beach and I’ve had my butties on there a few tims. But you have to be careful in the dunes. It’s a well-known breeding ground for adders and vipers.<\/p>\n They say that there are even calculator-snakes in there. I asked what they were and I was told that they are very fast adders<\/p>\n There was even a baby viper that went up to its mummy and asked “mummy, are we poisonous snakes?” I’ll get my coat. The half-hour on the bass was interesting and I was playing along to a couple of tracks that came round on the playlist. One of them was Tom Petty’s “Last Dance With Mary Jane” and so I spent the half-hour on the six-string bashing out the chords to that.<\/p>\n Tea was one of the breaded soya steaks that I had bought today with a baked potaot and vegetables, followed by apple pie and soya coconut whatsit.<\/p>\n There was a following wind that pushed me up the hill on the first leg of my run, but nevertheless it was still a painful experience. And recovering my breath I ran on down to the clifftop where a large party of young people were having a picnic in what I now believe to be the base of a radar installation.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, there weren’t too many people out there on the lawn tonight, which is rather unusual for just recently Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that we have been swamped with fishing boats over the last few months but tonight I couldn’t see a single one anywhere. There was just this speedboat coming over from the Ile de Chausey and he wasn’t hanging around at all.<\/p>\n In fact, by the time that I had made it round to the harbour he had joined me there. We’ve not had any calamities today as far as I can tell, but the fire over there is still smouldering as you can see. When I was out at the shops this morning it was still going, and at 21:00 today, some 30 hours later, they still haven’t completely sorted it out.<\/p>\n In fact, running down the Boulevard Vaufleury into the strong wind blowing from that direction, the acrid fumes were overpowering. While I was recovering my breath I went down to look at what was going on in the harbour. With the tide being right out there wasn’t much, except for the flock of seagulls on the mudflats at the entrance to the harbour.<\/p>\n They didn’t seem to be very active either, which surprised me. I’d imagined that they would have been scavenging about in the mud for shellfish to eat\n
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<\/a>It was another really stunningly nice day so I took my butties and my book and went to sit on the wall overlooking the harbour.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that the other day we were talking about heliographs and sunlight flashes across long distances.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>And so, in the glorious afternoon sunshine, I was out there for a good 45 minutes, and I enjoyed every minute of it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>The football meant that I was very late going for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>While it was fairly quiet at the top end of the beach round by the steps at the Rue du Nord, it was absolutely heaving at the Plat Gousset.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>It wasn’t just in the water and on the beach at that Plat Gousset that the madding crowds were congregating.<\/p>\n
\n“Why do you ask, darling?” asked mummy snake.
\n“Well”, replied baby snake “I’ve just bitten my tongue”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>As usual, I went out for my evening exercise activities.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Out at sea it was pretty quiet too.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>And regular readers of this rubbish will also recall the fire yesterday in Donville les Bains.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>It was no fun running down the Boulevard Vaufleury in a strong headwind, but I made it to my resting poing.<\/p>\n
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