{"id":15128,"date":"2021-10-24T00:48:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=15128"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:04:58","slug":"saturday-23rd-october-2021-it-was-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=15128","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 23rd October 2021 – IT WAS ANOTHER …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"red<\/a>… one of these aerial days today. Two on the run just now is good going.<\/p>\n

But it really is getting to be a bit like “Play School” around here. It’s not the shape of the window through which we’ll be looking today, but to see which colour powered hang-glider goes flying by overhead as I walk around my circuit.<\/p>\n

Yesterday it was the yellow one that went by, so today it’s the turn of the red one to fly overhead on its way back to the airfield. And carrying a passenger too. I really ought to go down there and blag myself a turn aboard one of these little machines.
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\"light<\/a>A short while later on, another machine with which we are quite familiar went past.<\/p>\n

She’s 50SA, a light aeroplane that isn’t registered in any database that I have been able to find so I’ve still no idea as to who she is and what she’s doing.<\/p>\n

There was plenty more to see too, flying by in the clear sky at 35,000 feet but Brain of Britain had let the battery in the NIKON D500<\/a> go flat so I ended up with the NIKON D3000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was fitted with the big, powerful lens but while the near-distance shots are pretty good in most circumstances, it won’t focus properly for long-distance shots and at 35,000 feet it won’t focus at all.
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Last night was another miserable, sad night. I’d been listening to my radio show but fell asleep just before midnight just as “Man” were finishing. And then I was awake at 05:30 in the morning and just couldn’t go back to sleep. Except of course, 5 minutes before the alarm went off.<\/p>\n

While I was taking my medication etc I was listening to the latter part of my rock show, and then I headed off for town and the shops.<\/p>\n

At Noz I stocked up the wine cellar a little – not that I drink it myself but I’m often invited out these days – and they had some more vegan food in the freezer there at a give-away price. There’s no room in my freezer but it fitted in somehow.<\/p>\n

At Leclerc there was nothing whatever of any interest except some vegan burgers at a greatly reduced price so I bought a couple of those. I now have the European Vegan Burger Mountain in my fridge and I wish that I’d bought a larger one now.<\/p>\n

They did however have grapes at \u20ac1:49 per kilo so I posted the fact on my social network.
\n“Don’t do that”<\/em><\/strong> replied Hans. “You’ll have everyone swarming over from the Uk to strip the shelves bare#34;<\/em><\/strong>
\n“They’ll have a job”<\/em><\/strong> I retorted. “After i’ve passed through there aren’t any left.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Back here I put the cool and frozen stuff away (not without a fight) and then made myself some coffee and toast. Using the proper coffee machine because I’m awash with real coffee at the moment, as I discovered when I tidied up the shelf unit a couple of months ago, and it all has to be used.<\/p>\n

While I was sitting down I had a listen to the dictaphone. We were in Liverpool probably last night. It started off with me in Croydon or somewhere. All the kids were milling around in the street heading for school, all in a blue school uniform. Gradually the scene moved into the school. There were some kinds on the 1st floor balcony and others downstairs on the ground floor. I was on the ground floor. All of a sudden this drunk came rolling down the steps on the balcony, over the end of the wall and landed smack on the floor right in front of where I was sitting. It turned out to be Paul McCartney. He came down to see it and check that it was OK. Then the assembly started. There was a guy with a guitar so we were all poking fun at everything that was about to happen, like kids do. McCartney said something about someone needs to go out at half-time to do something. I said that I’d go because I’d suddenly realised that I couldn’t remember what I’d done with my camera and where I’d put it<\/p>\n

After lunch I sat down and carried on with my medical receipts. A few of them are missing and a few others have timed out, but I sent them in just the same with a note to excuse them.<\/p>\n

There was also plenty of stuff about my radio project so I spent the rest of the afternoon dealing with that.<\/p>\n

\"people<\/a>Of course, I had to have a break for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n

Out across the car park and down to the wall at the end where I could see the beach. Plenty of beach, and plenty of people too. After all, it was a nice afternoon.<\/p>\n

Some yachts out there too over across the bay near Coudeville. I’ve no idea where they have come from because the tide is well out here and they aren’t likely to have come out of the port here in the mornign and hung about all day.
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\"men<\/a>There was yet more items of interest further along the beach.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of guys dragging kayaks into the water. And they are fishermen by the looks of the rods that they have on board their craft.<\/p>\n

And that must be a difficult job, because when you are sitting down with your legs outstretched in a kayak, you’re only pulling from the waits with no help at all from the leg muscles.<\/p>\n

Obviously it’s not a good idea to make love in a kayak. After all, making love in a kayak has a lot in common with Watney’s beer. They are both f***ing close to water.
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\"joly<\/a>THis morning as I was on my way out to the shops, I drove past the harbour just as one of the Joly France<\/em> boats, probably the one that was aground there yesterday afternoon, was leaving for the Ile de Chausey.<\/p>\n

When I took this pic, I could see something large and white just offshore from the Ile de Chausey. Blowing up the photo, which I can do despite modern anti-terrorism legislation, I could see that it is indeed a Joly France boat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She’s not likely to be coming home though. It’s a good couple of hours before the tide is far enough in and it only takes her half an hour or so to cross the bay. She’ll be hanging around for a bit until she can reach the jetty on the island.
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\"coudeville<\/a>A little earlier, I mentioned that the bay was looking quite nice in the sun.<\/p>\n

For that reason I took a photo of Coudeville-Plage. However, due to focusing and other issues with the NIKON D3000<\/a> over distance, this one and the previous one haven’t turned out too well.<\/p>\n

Mind you, you can see the two kayakers at the bottom of the image so the near-distance shots have come out reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Actually, as with the NIKON 1 J5<\/a> in the dark, I think that I’m expecting too much of these cameras and pushing them beyond their feasible limits.<\/p>\n

Either that, or my technique is rubbish.
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\"man<\/a>The guys in the kayaks weren’t the only ones who had gone fishing this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Down on the rocks at the end of the Pointe du Roc is another fisherman, standing up this time. I noticed him as I crossed the car park a little further back so I came down to see how he was getting on.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that he didn’t catch anything while I wss watching, which is no surprise. Either they never ever catch anything or my presence is the kiss of death to the local fishermen.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I left him in peace and cleared off.
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\"yann<\/a>Next port of call is the viewpoint overlooking the harbour so I headed off along the path on top of the headland.<\/p>\n

Yann Frederic<\/em> is still in there, which was good news. That means I can take another photo of her because yesterday’s was rubbish, with the waving long grass confusing the focal length of the image.<\/p>\n

Why I needed to do that is because I had a look on the shipping database and found that she doesn’t have a photo on there. As I maintain the AIS beacon detector for the port, I suppose that I’m responsible in some way towards the boats in here so I went to put that right and upload a photo of her.
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\"jade<\/a>Another boat that is still here is Jade III.<\/p>\n

She’s actually moored on the slipway as you can see, not settling down in the silt. There was someone around there with her but I couldn’t see what he was doing. It can’t have been anythign important.<\/p>\n

Back here I had another coffee and finished off the outstanding work.<\/p>\n

There was football on later, Y Drenewydd v Caernarfon.<\/p>\n

Y Drenewydd won the game 1-0 with a goal scored in first-half stoppage time by the excellent Mwandwe. Caernarfon were strangely subdued with their three star midfielders, Thomas, Edwards and Hughes looking very much out of sorts this afternoon and they didn’t look much like scoring.<\/p>\n

In the end the finished the match with two out-and-out strikers, Cai Jones and Mike Hayes up front as well as the veteran former Welsh International defender Steve Evans playing centre forward, but it still didn’t look as if they would ever score with their misfiring midfield.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Steve Evans was booked for a foul just a couple of seconds after coming onto the field before he’d even touched the ball.
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Later on I had tea – a couple of the small breaded burgers that I had bought this morning and they were nice too.<\/p>\n

But now it’s ridiculously late so I’m off to bed, even though I’m not tired. But here’s hoping that I have a good sleep.<\/p>\n

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