{"id":13606,"date":"2020-09-16T22:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13606"},"modified":"2020-09-16T22:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:06:37","slug":"wednesday-16th-september-2020-as-i-was-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13606","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 16th September 2020 – AS I WAS SAYING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… only the other day, having my body clock disturbed is not really a good idea.<\/p>\n

And as I said yesterday, being awake at 03:00 isn’t a very good plan either. And going to bed at 04:15 (and not being able to sleep either) doesn’t help matters.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that I’d switched off the alarms. I wasn’t going to be out of bed by the third alarm and it’s pointless trying. It ended up being another 11:30 today.<\/p>\n

There was something on the dictaphone but it seems that I hadn’t gone too far. We were on board a ship last night and the question came round about ancient Egypt. For some unknown reason I imagined myself as a young baby wrapped in a nappy being worshipped as a god or something like that, an immortal. And it was very like a voyage that I’ve had a couple of times in the past.<\/p>\n

Or so I said. While there are plenty of examples of me going on nocturnal voyages on board ships, I actually couldn’t think of a nocturnal voyage that bears any relationship to this one with similar events to these.<\/p>\n

While I was at it, I dealt with a few more of the arrears from my voyage around Europe. At least that is now getting down to manageable proportions from the 70-odd that were there at the start.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t much time to do very much. I spent some time working on the notes for the live broadcast that I’m doing, but I had another thing in mind to do as well.<\/p>\n

There are the albums to digitalise, but also some cassettes. I’d borrowed a cassette player from Liz for the task and while I was messing around with the big desktop computer, I came across an input socket on the front, one that I hadn’t noticed before.<\/p>\n

And so I had a rummage around and came up with a stereo audio cable, plugged it into the earphone socket on the cassette player and the other end into the input on the laptop.<\/p>\n

After much playing around with the selectors I finally managed to make the computer record a cassette – but in mono only. Yet again!<\/p>\n

But the word “earphone” on the cassette player should have given me a clue. Sticking a set of headphones in, I found out that there was only one channel working, but that was broadcasting both tracks.<\/p>\n

So that’s a mono output and consequently of not much use. I’m going to have to think of a plan B – which might involve having to bring the big hi-fi into here.<\/p>\n

Failing that, I know that my DVD player in the living room will record, so maybe I could even plug the big hi-fi into the DVD, record onto the hard-drive, burn to a DVD and then copy it onto the computer.<\/p>\n

But I’ll find a way.<\/p>\n

\"chausiais<\/a>After a shower, I had to set out on my travels. It’s that time of the year again – one of our three-monthly meetings of the radio station.<\/p>\n

It’s a long walk out to the Centre Agora but it does me good. The road goes past the top of the harbour where I can look down and see what is going on. Normandy Trader<\/em> has disappeared into the sunset, and a long time ago too, and her place has been taken by Chausiais<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After a nice long walk I ended up at the meeting where we had to listen to a few people taking several hours to say nothing at all. At one stage, on my notes I had written “Oh God! I wish that this woman would shut up!”<\/p>\n

As I have said before … “and you’ll say again” – ed<\/em> … these are the kinds of meetings that should be held, standing up in the open air in a rainstorm.
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\"port<\/a>The weather was really pleasant later on and so I had a lovely walk, the long way around, back home.<\/p>\n

It’s not very often that I have the chance to see the town in the dark and so I took a couple of photos on my way home. Like this one of the sea front looking across the beach and the port to the old town (where I live) perched on the rocks.<\/p>\n

The photo was taken with the little NIKON 1 J5<\/a> which I take with me on walks like this. It’s quite compact and light, fits in a jacket pocket and does well enough in normal lighting conditions (but struggles in abnormal condition).
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\"bar<\/a>My route went through the town and then up the Rue des Juifs.<\/p>\n

From the top of the Rampe du Monte Regret there’s a good view down towards the port. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I’ve mentioned the Bar Ephem\u00e8re<\/em>, called Chez Maguie<\/em>, that has sprung up on the little square at the Square Pl\u00e9ville.<\/p>\n

It’s open until quite late at night and it looked quite good from up here with all of its lights working so I took a photo of that while I was at it, to add it to the collection.
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\"trawler<\/a>From there I continued up the Rue des Juifs to the viewpoint overlooking the port.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t too much excitement there tonight, except that there was a fishing boat in the harbour, moored up and unloading at the Fish Processing plant.<\/p>\n

When I arrived back, I hardly had time to take off my jacket before the phone rang. Rosemary rang me and we had a really good chat for 90 minutes, putting the world to rights, and I ended up missing my tea. But that will do me some good, I suppose.
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So, later than I was hoping, I’m off to bed. Shopping tomorrow so that’s a nice early morning walk. And I have to go via the railway station to pick up my rail tickets, if I remember.<\/p>\n

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