It was about 01:45 when I finally went to bed so it was something of a disappointment to be awake at 07:50 when I awoke. But there’s no chance whatever of me being up and about on a Sunday at that ridiculous time so I turned over and went back to bed.<\/p>\n
10:15 is much more like it on a Sunday.<\/p>\n
First task after the medication was to deal with the sink. I went to do all of the washing-up from last night but the water simply didn’t drain out at all.<\/p>\n
In the end I dismantled all of the pipework under the sink and found a nice piece of cable to ram down the pipe that I couldn’t dismantle. Judging by how far the cable went down the pipework it was well into the communal lengths before it found the obstruction.<\/p>\n
It took quite a while of furkling about with the cable before the obstruction suddenly moved. And then I had to reassemble everything. It wasn’t exactly how I intended to start my Sunday but at least I could crack on.<\/p>\n
After all of that I couldn’t concentrate on the blog entry that I’d started and didn’t seem to make any progress so I had another go at the photos. That’s a huge pile of those that I did today and I’m now in a zodiac in Arsuk Fjord heading for a close encounter with a musk-ox.<\/p>\n
The sky was absolutely beautiful once more with not a cloud in the sky today. But there were plenty of other things in the air instead. None of the bird-men because there wasn’t enough wind but we did have one or two people up in the air in their powered hang-gliders or whatever they are called.<\/p>\n Several light aircraft were flying past overhead too, but they were too far away for me to photograph with any kind of clarity. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that we have some kind of bird of prey flying around the edges of the cliffs. There’s a colony of rabbits somewhere in the cliffs and I imagine that it targets the very young of the colony together with whatever else it can find in the way of small mammals.<\/p>\n As for the details of its species, I have to say that I have no idea. Despite all of the lectures on birdwatching that I’ve had in the past from Nerina, they weren’t about this kind of bird. But retournons \u00e0 nos moutons<\/em> as they say around here, we were talking about the gorgeous weather today.<\/p>\n When we were in the Arctic we had people throwing themselves into the sea even as the surface was freezing over but they were Canadians and it’s the kind of thing that you might expect from them but it’s not the thing that I would normally expect French people to do for pleasure.<\/p>\n There were quite a few people out there this afternoon, not as many as there were yesterday for sure, and with nothing going on out at sea I walked round to the viewpoint overlooking the harbour. Every now and again we see the odd boat left there overnight or in between tides but to see them there for this long is quite unusual. It prevents others coming in to unload from reaching the wharf and they can’t be too happy about that.<\/p>\n It’s not as if there isn’t any room in the inner harbour for them to tie up. There is plenty of space in there since they installed the new pontoons. The sea was quite calm this afternoon without any high waves, as you can tell by the wake of the cabin cruiser going past but there was a really powerful current rolling in. It’s about every seventh wave that is the strongest and this seventh waves was smashing in and sending spray right up to the top of the sea wall.<\/p>\n There were several people standing around here at the viewpoint watching the spectacle. I’m not quite sure why because there were no shipwrecks, nobody drownding, in fact nothing to laugh at at all. All of that looks perfectly calm out there and the boat looks perfectly stable regardless of all of the waves beating up against the harbour wall. It seems to be such a really nice day to be out and about on the water.<\/p>\n In the background, the road that leads into Saint-Pair sur Mer is all bathed in sunlight and the chateau d’eau<\/em> looks particularly prominent today. There’s also some building work going on in St Pair sur Mer too, judging by the crane on the extreme right of the image. I’ll have to go and have a look at that one of these days too. Back here I made another attempt at rewriting the notes of one of my pages from Central Europe and this time, I made some progress. But I broke off to have a chat with TOTGA and then I had to go to attend to the cooking for the following week.<\/p>\n The pizza dough I had taken out of the freezer this morning and now that it had defrosted I kneaded it again, rolled it and put it on the tray to proof again.<\/p>\n <\/a> And here we have the finished products from today’s baking session, along with the kefir from last night. That’s already fermenting so it seems to be a very good batch today. I hope that it tastes as good as it performs.<\/p>\n The pizza was delicious but as for the apple pie, I’ll tell you another time – there was no room for any this evening as the pizza was, as usual, quite filling. Having done a little tidying up, I’m now off to bed as it’s Monday tomorrow and I’m radioing again. I remember saying at the beginning of the week that I was quite optimistic about the week that was to come and I seem to have accomplished a fair amount for a change. I wonder how this week will turn out.<\/p>\n![\"microlight](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030040.jpg\")
<\/a>Despite it being a Sunday, I remembered to go out for my afternoon walk around the headland.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"bird](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030042.jpg\")
<\/a>On the other hand, something else went flying by quite clearly enough for me to photograph this afternoon.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"girls](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030041.jpg\")
<\/a>Nice though it might have been, it wasn’t all that warm at all and so I was surprised, if not astonished, to see a couple of women emerging from the sea like a couple of 21st-Century sirens. I would have expected the water to have been cold enough to freeze the barnacles off a brass dinghy right now.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"trawlers](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030043.jpg\")
<\/a>There was no change in occupancy in the chantier navale<\/em> today, the same four boats that have been there since Thursday are still there on their own today, but also, surprisingly, the two boats that were grounded over by the Fish Processing Plant yesterday are still there today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"waves](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030045.jpg\")
<\/a>As I mentioned earlier, there wasn’t a great deal of wind this afternoon, but there must be some kind of strong wind blowing from somewhere as you can see from this photograph.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"yacht](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030044.jpg\")
<\/a>Another indication of how calm the sea really was today was the behaviour of the yacht out there in the Baie de Mont St Michel.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n![\"home](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2103\/21030046.jpg\")
<\/a>There was a roll of flaky pastry left over in the fridge since Christmas so I used it this afternoon and made myself an apple pie with it. And while the pie was baking I assembled the pizza and that went into the oven when the pie was finished.<\/p>\n
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