{"id":15954,"date":"2022-04-28T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2022-04-28T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:43:34","slug":"thursday-28th-april-2022-im-not-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=15954","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 28th April 2022 &#8211; I&#8217;M NOT SURE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040225.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040225.jpg\" alt=\"yacht baie de Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>&#8230; what happened today but I&#8217;ve been feeling much better  than i have done for the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>And so while you admire a handful of photos of all of the maritime traffic that was out and about this afternoon while I was on my post-prandial perambulation around the perimeter of the Pointe du Roc, I&#8217;ll tell you all about it.<\/p>\n<p>Even the bit about not only not crashing out during the day but not actually feeling as if I needed to, and isn&#8217;t that some kind of progress from the way that things have been just recently?<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040226.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040226.jpg\" alt=\"ch517520 yann frederic baie de Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Mind you, it was quite a turbulent night, as you can tell from thz amount of stuff that was on the dictaphone.<\/p>\n<p>And after the nurse had been (because I had a blood test this morning) and I&#8217;d taken my medication I sat down to transcribe everything.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at apartments and houses last night. There was some kind of robot thing that went through them while I was looking at them, and put them up to let. It seemed that every time I wanted to buy a place it was miraculously transformed into a letting property. The noise that this robot thing made when it roamed through these houses and apartments was really annoying. I couldn&#8217;t find a single property to buy without being overwhelmed by this. When I tried to sell a place, again I was overwhelmed by this kind-of robot thing that came along. It was the same with water. I couldn&#8217;t have water at the right temperature. It was either too hot or too cold even when there were two different sets of mixing taps draining into a sink. I couldn&#8217;t get the water temperature to be right. This thing with these apartments was really stressful in this dream.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040227.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040227.jpg\" alt=\"trawlers baie de mont st michel Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Then we were back on that ship yet again &#8230; <em>&#8220;which ship?&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; but in an aeroplane now. The little girl and 2 other people on board had hi-jacked it and were preparing to sail off somewhere peaceful where they didn&#8217;t have to worry about being kidnapped again<\/p>\n<p>Back in that dream yet again and there were Portuguese waiting down the road for that girl, to ambush her. This brought me on to I was actually at someone&#8217;s house when someone pulled up outside. The guy looked out of the window and said &#8220;Oh God it&#8217;s him&#8221;. I asked what had happened. he said that he had picked up someone at the docks when he&#8217;d come back over from Europe and was taking them home. When they arrived at a motorway interchange this guy had proposed going one way and the other guy proposed going a different wayto reach where they were going. This had led to something of quite a dispute between the 2 of them, quite a bit of bad feeling. When they met again outside this bungalow they explained the situation. I said that when one is used to going a certain way for 15 years and someone comes along and says to go another way it&#8217;s  always something of a challenge. They gradually eased the situation between the 2 of them.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040229.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040229.jpg\" alt=\"trawlers yacht le loup baie de mont st michel Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Finally; we were in North America somewhere. We were standing by this railway line watching these 2 girls running across some land and ended up running to this railway line. Whoever it was who was with me we both looked at these girls but we didn&#8217;t recognise them at all. We couldn&#8217;t think of why they would want to come to this railway line especially in the fashion that they had done running flat out like that.<\/p>\n<p>So as you can see, the fact that I went the whole day without being tired is something of a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Another task that I needed to do today was to book my appointment with this Sports Therapist person. So I rang them up and that&#8217;s arranged for Thursday 12th May. a moment of destiny amongst so many others, one might say.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040231.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040231.jpg\" alt=\"trawlers port de Granville harbour Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>What I have been doing for some (and by no means all) of the day is to do what I should have done a while ago and updated the notes from when I was in Leuven and K\u00f4ln.<\/p>\n<p>It completely slipped my mind that they needed editing and so I made a start. And I actually completed one day before I ground to a halt again.<\/p>\n<p>That was because I had been set another task, presumably to prove that I am worthy, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%255Fss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dmonty%2520python%2520holy%2520grail%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&amp;tag=erichall-21&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AS THE OLD SAYING GOES<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=erichall-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\">. I need to produce an entertaining itit &#8211; init &#8211; itinin &#8211; initit &#8211; timetable for the weekend, seeing as I&#8217;m the only one who knows where I&#8217;m going (and even that is doubtful).<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that is all done and dusted now &#8211; three days of riotous fun and high living &#8211; I don&#8217;t think. But there are some hot cross buns going spare if I behave myself, but really there&#8217;s little chance of that, isn&#8217;t there? Especially considering who else might (if I&#8217;m lucky) be there.<\/p>\n<p>There were the usual breaks for breakfast, coffee and lunch. And then, of course, the walk around the headland to which I referred earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040224.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040224.jpg\" alt=\"people on beach rue du nord Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And first of all, as usual, is the wander across the car park to look down over the wall to see what was happening down below on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>And as the weather was so nice and there were crowds of people and parked cars all over the place, I expected the beach to be quite busy. And I was right too. There were probably a couple of dozen people down there.<\/p>\n<p>There was quite a bit of beach as well. The tide is on its way in though so it won&#8217;t be like that for much longer. You probably gathered that from the crowds of fishing boats loitering around just outside the harbour waiting for the gates to open.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040228.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040228.jpg\" alt=\"people on bench cabanon vauban pointe du roc Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>As I said, there were hordes of people milling around on the paths this afternoon. It was very hard to keep some kind of distance, even more so as I seemed to be the only person out there wearing a mask.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of people down there on the bench by the <em>cabanon vauban<\/em> watching the spectacle going on out at sea because it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve seen so many boats out there waiting for things to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So while they were waiting for things to happen I headed off down the path on the other side of the headland to see what&#8217;s happening there &#8211; if the multitudes of people would let me pass by.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040230.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040230.jpg\" alt=\"ch827132 valeque le roc a la mauve 3 chantier naval port de Granville harbour Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>When I arrived at the viewpoint overlooking the <em>chantier naval<\/em> I noticed that there&#8217;s a new boat in there.<\/p>\n<p><em>Le Roc A LA Mauve III<\/em> looks as if she&#8217;s put down roots. She&#8217;s still there after all this time. But down there with her is another shell-fishing boat.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s carrying registration number CH857132 and that&#8217;s not in my list of boats so she must also be new to the area. Luckily I can see what I think might be her name and she may well be called <em>Valeque<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of boats in the outer harbour today as you have seen but it&#8217;s impossible to say who they are at this range.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040232.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040232.jpg\" alt=\"normandy warrior port de Granville harbour Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>But we all know who this is, moored up at the loading bay in the inner harbour.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s one of two boats, and the fact that she doesn&#8217;t have that raised deck at the stern behind the bridge tells us that she is in fact <em>Normandy Warrior<\/em>, not <em>Normandy Trader<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She must be in port to pick up the swimming pool that&#8217;s been on the quayside for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>And the company that owns these two freighters is extremely busy. They are recruiting additional sea-going staff and there&#8217;s an advert doing the rounds. If only I had a mariner&#8217;s watch-keeping certificate I would be home and &#8230; errr &#8230; well, certainly not dry.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040233.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/2204\/22040233.jpg\" alt=\"powered hang glider place d'armes Granville Manche Normandy France Eric Hall photo April 2022\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Before I went inside though I was overflown by the little red powered hang-glider thing or whatever it&#8217;s called.<\/p>\n<p>It was on its way back from a trip down to Mont St Michel when it flew past me overhead. Luckily it didn&#8217;t have the same effect as the seagull did yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Back here I finished off my itinerary for the weekend and then went to make tea.<\/p>\n<p>That sweet potato made lovely chips in the air fryer and I&#8217;ll do that again. Someone mentioned seasoning so I added a pinch of chili powder, a pinch of garlic salt and a generous twist of freshly-ground black pepper and that certainly added something to the mix. I&#8217;ll do that again too.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m off to bed. I have an 06:00 start in the morning, to which I am not looking forward at all. But as it&#8217;s the most important weeked for a good many years with a very crucial meeting, I have to do it.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ll have to do is to nip out surreptitiously and hope that the butterflies in my stomach don&#8217;t notice.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it&#8217;ll make much difference because if things run according to form and past history, I&#8217;ll make a mess of it. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-15954 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='15954' data-nonce='80b3956de7' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-15954 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-15954 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='15954' data-nonce='80b3956de7' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-15954 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-15954 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; what happened today but I&#8217;ve been feeling much better than i have done for the last few days. 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