{"id":15130,"date":"2021-10-24T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T19:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:23:23","slug":"sunday-24th-october-2021-sunday-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=15130","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 24th October 2021 – SUNDAY IS A …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… day of rest around here, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall. And I rested so well that I actually crashed out for 10 minutes in the late afternoon, and how long is it since I’ve done that?<\/p>\n

Mind you, it was another depressing night. It was 03:00 when I finally crawled into bed last night after all that coffee. But I was up and about at 04:40 with a severe bout of coughing that awoke me. I had to go off and have a drink of water.<\/p>\n

That’ll teach me to eat a handful of peanuts just as I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n

But once back in bed, it took an age, a real age, to go back off to sleep and even when I did, I was wide awake again at 09:30. I stayed in bed though, hoping that I would go back to sleep again but by 11:00 I gave it up as a bad job and went for my medication.<\/p>\n

Before lunch I paired off all of the music for the next radio programme that I’ll be preparing tomorrow – that is, depending on what happens at the heart consultant tomorrow at 08:00.<\/p>\n

As well as that I have the nurse coming for my injections in the afternoon followed by the physiotherapist, so I’m going to be pushed for time.<\/p>\n

There was some stuff on the dictaphone too from last night. There was some filming going on in our school. I’m not sure what it was about but I was there looking at the stills afterwards to see if there was anyone there whom I recognised. Afterwards the producer was issuing a couple of girls with rail tickets, a years worth, 12 x monthly ones. He was putting on the date. It was something like January for this and every subsequent year. I remember saying to him “I hope that this picture will be finished before the end of this year, never mind every subsequent year”.<\/p>\n

I was doing something for G&B Coaches last night but it involved being in cars. One of the cars was an Austin Princess that I was driving. When I brought it back home I checked the oil and the oil was low so I topped it up. I set out to do what I had to do and we all met up near a beach somewhere. There was one driver, a girl, missing. While we were sitting on the beach we were wondering where she was. Then I went to check the engine oil again and the whole inside of the engine compartment was awash with oil. There was obviously a major oil leak somewhere. This was awful. We had a talk about that. I mentioned that they should have a mechanic in to fix this because this will cost them a lot in the long term with the oil. One of the guys said “with a mechanic in, that’s why they can get all these boxes of spares that they’ve bought and go through them and work out that they’ve made a good deal out of it all”. That still didn’t convince me anything about the state of this Austin Princess that was leaking oil everywhere. I thought that i’d be lucky if I get home in this.<\/p>\n

There is also the afternoon walk but before I set out I had some bread to make. I’ve run out of fruit buns for breakfast so I made some dough with everything in it, mixed it all up and kneaded it, rolled it out and cut it into 8<\/p>\n

With the lumps of dough I rolled them round into balls, pressed them down and put them on a baking tray to leave them to rise up.<\/p>\n

\"seagulls<\/a>Of course I had to go out to the end of the car park and look down over the wall onto the beach to see what was happening.<\/p>\n

Never mind the beach, or the people thereupon. I was much more enthralled by the sight that caught my eye down in one of the tidal pools.<\/p>\n

Just about every seagull in the Manche seemed to be either floating on it or hovering above it. According to someone with whom I was talking, it’s a feeding frenzy. Maybe a shoal of fish has been left behind as the tide has retreated.<\/p>\n

Had I been fitter, I’d have gone down and checked it, but going down the steps is one thing – coming back up them afterwards is something else completely.
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\"seagull<\/a>There was however someone down there on the beach.<\/p>\n

And he was in danger of coming under attack by a low-flying seagull that is coming along to inspect him. I’m not sure exactly what he was doing down there. He wasn’t equipped for the peche \u00e0 pied<\/em>, or any other kind of fishing either.<\/p>\n

But anyway, I wasn’t going to hang around and watch him while he strolled about among the rocks. I cleared off down the path towards the lighthouse, fighting my way through the crowds as I did so. it was quite busy out there this afternoon.
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\"people<\/a>Down the path and across the car park, I came to the end of the path at the headland.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t a single boat out there this afternoon in the bay. Nothing whatever was moving. And so I was wondering what these people would be doing down there this afternoon. Something had caught their eye but I couldn’t see what it was.<\/p>\n

There was also a girl on the path down below, taking a photo of I don’t know what. But just as I was about to take a photo of her taking a photograph, she put her camera away and cleared off down the path.
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\"sun<\/a>You can tell that the autumn is well on its way now, judging by the sun.<\/p>\n

This kind of photo is a regular feature of these pages during the autumn and winter with the sun at a very low elevation in the sky shining through gaps in the clouds giving a kind of TORA TORA TORA<\/a> effect to the sky.<\/p>\n

There will be a few more of these as the year progresses.<\/p>\n

From here I wandered off down the path on the southern side of the headland towards the viewpoint overlooking the port.
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\"chausiaise<\/a>There was no change in the Chantier naval<\/em> today. Yann Frederic<\/em> was still there all on her own.<\/p>\n

Jade III<\/em> had gone from her perch on the slipway into the tidal harbour too and so I turned my attention to whatever was going on in the inner harbour.<\/p>\n

Chausiais<\/em> was there, tied up at the quayside underneath the crane. That tells us two things –<\/p>\n

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  1. She must have some kind of load to deliver to the Ile de Chausey in the very near future.<\/li>\n
  2. We aren’t expecting a Jersey freighter in port for the next day or so.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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    Back at the apartment I had a coffee and then turned my attention to my stomach.<\/p>\n

    Earlier on, I’d taken out some dough from the freezer and it had been defrosting. By now it was ready so I kneaded it again, rolled it out and put it on the pizza tray to proof for the next half hour or so.<\/p>\n

    \"vegan<\/a>While I was assembling my pizza later, I turned the oven on and put the fruit bread buns in to back. It had all risen quite nicely over the last hour or two although I would have liked it to have risen more than it has.<\/p>\n

    When the buns were ready I put the pizza in and when it was cooked I went for my tea.<\/p>\n

    It was actually one of the best pizzas that I have ever eaten. The fruit buns look really good but I’ll be telling you more about those tomorrow.<\/p>\n

    For a change I’ve actually finished my notes early, so I’m going to take full advantage and go for an early night ready for tomorrow. It’s a busy day so I need to be on form.
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