{"id":13885,"date":"2020-12-09T21:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2020-12-09T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:11:15","slug":"wednesday-9th-december-2020-i-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13885","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 9th December 2020 – I DIDN’T …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… manage to beat the alarm to my feet this morning but it was only a matter of seconds. I had in fact gone back to sleep after the second but I soon sprang back to life again and was up in a twinkling.<\/p>\n

First job after the medication was to look at the kefir. It was the last of the current lot this morning and I’d forgotten to prepare any yesterday so just before I went to bed I made a small bottle with some mint syrup. That’ll have 30-odd hours to ferment and I’ll be intrigued to see how it comes out.<\/p>\n

But the fact is that it hasn’t fermented at all. It seems to e quite inert. Still the proof of the pudding will be in the drinking tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n

Last night I was taking part in a rock opera about a bird at a boxing tournament between kids. They started off as kids of various ages, and then it became pairs and in one pair some young boy was really hurt in a fight with a gorgeous left hook. In the end it was 3 girls against 3 boys and all 6 were in the ring together. And this is what this rock opera was to do – the start of this boxing match. The people who had green paint had to sing one set of lines and the people who had the blue lines had to sing another set of lines. I was in the blue line team although my girlfriend\/partner\/whatever was in the other. We had to sit in a certain corner and they sat in another. They sang one line and we sang another and we alternated like that. It turned out to be a song to persuade people to back the cause to rejoin the EU rather than the prelude to a boxing match<\/p>\n

The morning has been spent working on the arrears of my voyage to Central Europe but there have been interruptions all along the way.<\/p>\n

\"mini<\/a>When I nipped into the living room to do something (and I can’t remember what now) and I noticed movement up by the Porte St Jean.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that last night we saw that something had been done to the pavement in the Rue St Jean and we’d been musing on what it might be. It looks today as if they have called up the heavy equipment to help them along with what they are doing.<\/p>\n

That reminds me – I’ll have to go out that way on my afternoon walk and see if I can’t find out what was going on.
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This afternoon I made a new batch of kefir.<\/p>\n

\"orange<\/a>There were three juice oranges lying around from a long time ago so they were whizzed to a fine pulp and the juice filtered out onto the large jug, and the pulp thrown away. The Kefir liquid was then strained through my filter set-up and added to the jug and mixed well in.<\/p>\n

A new lot of kefir was started off and the stuff in the big jug was then filtered back through the filter set up into some flip-top bottles.<\/p>\n

Here’s the finished product. It’ll be good when it’s had a couple of days to ferment some more. The green stuff in the bottle is the mint-syrup one that I made. And still no fermentation as yet. But I’ll have that in the morning tomorrow and see how it goes.
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The kitchen was in something of a mess after all this baking etc (well, it’s been in something of a mess for quite a while if I think about it) so I took out the rubbish to the bins and then cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed it and scrubbed the floor to within an inch of its life. I must be feeling better<\/p>\n

\"replacing<\/a>By now it was walkies time so I duly set out to see what was going on about the place.<\/p>\n

As I said earlier, first stop was bound to be the roadworks to find out what was going on. There were loads of vnas and lorries and quite a few people. And one friendly workman whom I buttonholed told me that they were simply replacing paving slabs.<\/p>\n

It beats me why because they weren’t in bad condition. And I’m disappointed that it’s nothing to do with the fibre-optic. I was hoping that we would have had that up and running a long time ago, but apparently not.
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Talking of running, I walked off down the Rue du Nord and then paddled through the puddles along the footpath under the walls.<\/p>\n

\"tidal<\/a>And once I was clear of the madding crowds I broke into a run along the path. I need to take advantage of every possibility that presents itself.<\/p>\n

Although it was somewhat cold out there, it was a very pleasant afternoon to be out and there were quite a few people walking along the Plat Gousset and even one or two people on the beach too.<\/p>\n

The tide looked as if it was on its way in judging by how dry the beach is, and the tidal swimming pool was filling up nicely. Not that there was anyone loitering around waiting to go in it, which doesn’t surprise me in the least. The weather wasn’t that nice.
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Once I reached my goal – the viewpoint overlooking the Place Marechal Foch I retraced my steps.<\/p>\n

\"trench<\/a>Yesterday we saw what looked like a gate in the wall up on the Place de l’isthme which I speculated might be the entrance to this tunnel-like walkway that goes across the trench and blocks the view so that you can’t see right from one end to the other.<\/p>\n

This is the trench here, in the daylight, and you can see what I mean by the tunnel.<\/p>\n

And if you look very closely you can see that the tunnel doesn’t actually cover the framework of the door surround, almost as if the tunnel is some kind of afterthought. It’s certainly something quite peculiar and I wonder chat purpose it actually serves. I’ll have to wait until there’s an Open Day, whenever that might be.
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There was someone walking towards me across the Square Maurice Marland so I had to wait until they had gone before I could break into a run. And for the first time ever I managed to climb all the way up the second, steeper ramp before coming to a halt.<\/p>\n

My running is definitely improving.<\/p>\n

\"le<\/a>At the top I went to have a look over at the port from the viewpoint there to see if there was anything of note going on.<\/p>\n

No freighter from Jersey (and, as an aside, I’ve heard that Chausiais<\/em> has been called in to take a load across the Channel to Jersey) but it looks as if the new trawler Le Pearl<\/em> is making ready to go off on her travels.<\/p>\n

She’s moved over to another berth, this time on the far side, where she’s receiving attention from a couple of guys as well as someone with a van. Are they provisioning her ready to go to sea, maybe?
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\"renovated<\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will also recall the house renovation that’s been taking place in the Rue Lecarpentier.<\/p>\n

Today, the netting all around it seems to have been taken down and we can see what they’ve been doing. The pointwork around the stones on the ground floor seems to have been renewed for a start.<\/p>\n

So I headed off home for a really hot coffee to warm me up and to carry on with my work. but I unfortunately crashed out for about 10 minutes. I’ve been drifting away all through the day on and off and here and there.
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After the enjoyable hour on the guitars, I had tea. Taco rolls and rice followed by apple pie. And then time for my evening run.<\/p>\n

And that was something that I didn’t enjoy.<\/p>\n

Actually I’m rather glad that I ran when I could this afternoon because there was a wicked swirling wind that had sprung up from somewhere In fact I may not know where it came from but I can tell you exactly where it was going.<\/p>\n

This evening I hadn’t even made 50 yards down the road before I was brought to a dramatic halt by the force of the wind. it was bad enough trying to walk in it, never mind run.<\/p>\n

\"war<\/a>In the shelter of the hedge at the back of the Sports Ground I could run down to the the clifftop and then the wind hit me and slowed me up again.<\/p>\n

Round by the War memorial to the French Resistance I took a photo of the view just to prove that I had been there. It was looking quite nice with the lights of St Pair sur Mer in the background<\/p>\n

And then, fighting the wind every inch of the way, I made it back home without stopping for another photo. Not exactly, though. The wind contrived to stop me dead in my tracks on more than one occasion.
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Thursday tomorrow so it’s shopping day. That means that i’m going to try to grab an early night tonight. I deserve a long sleep. I’m thoroughly exhausted.<\/p>\n

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