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… day that I’d much rather forget, because I’ve spent most of it asleep again.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly the day started quite well because I was wide-awake shortly after 07:00 and didn’t have any trouble at all leaving the bed at 07:30 when the alarm went off. But that was as good as it got.<\/p>\n

After the medication I came back in here to prepare for my Welsh course, and I promptly fell asleep. And not just for a few minutes either but for over an hour and that was disappointing. Even more disappointing was that Zero didn’t come to watch over me while I was asleep, like she did yesterday.<\/p>\n

Eventually I managed to find the strength to prepare for the Welsh lesson, and actually it didn’t go too badly. I was actually surprised with what I could remember and that’s not like me at all.<\/p>\n

When the lesson finished I went for a shower and a good scrub up, and I actually smell quite nice for a change.<\/p>\n

Lunch was quite late, what with one thing and another, and then fighting off waves of sleep I headed off out.<\/p>\n

\"gerlean<\/a>There was no physiotherapy yesterday because it was a Bank Holiday, but she had offered me a session today.<\/p>\n

So on my way out I stopped at the corner of the Boulevard Vaufleury and the Boulevard des 2E et 202E de Ligne to see what was happening down in the port.<\/p>\n

And it looks as if we are back playing another game of “musical ships”. L’Omerta<\/em> isn’t there this afternoon nut in her place today is Gerlean<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There’s another boat moored behind her too but I can’t see who she is from here. Whoever she is, she’s quite small so she can’t be anyone special.
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\"yacht<\/a>There was plenty of activity going on in the Baie de Mont St Michel this afternoon too.<\/p>\n

One of the sailing schools has gone out there and they are all having a really good time, being shepherded around by a couple of zodiacs.<\/p>\n

One of these days I’ll be out there with them. I haven’t forgotten that. But I just don’t know when I’m going to find the time what with everything that I have going on right now, physiotherapy, language lessons, hospital appointments and all of that.<\/p>\n

But anyway, that’s something to worry about for another time. I headed off down the hill towards the town.
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\"la<\/a>The other day we saw one of the Gendarme Maritime<\/em> boats, P692 Maroni<\/em>, in port.<\/p>\n

There’s one moored over there against the wall today as well. Of course I can’t say whether it’s Maroni<\/em>, but it would be most unlikely to be a different one.<\/p>\n

Plenty of smaller boats over there as well, and we can recognise La Grande Ancre<\/em> amongst them.<\/p>\n

The walk up the hill was total agony. It was just like the dark days of last summer when I was at my worst. Just recently I’ve been making it all the way up the hill in one go but today I lost count of how many times I had to stop for breath<\/p>\n

She put me through my paces for a while and then we finished off with 10 minutes on the exercise bike. Luckily she didn’t wind it full up otherwise I would never have managed it.<\/p>\n

My plan when she threw me out was to go round to Lidl for some shopping but I was honestly in no state whatever to go there today. Instead, I went to the Carrefour across the road for just enough apples and onions to see me through until the weekend.
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\"kiddies<\/a>Back in the centre of the town the kiddies’ roundabout was still there.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly smaller than the pink one that used to come here, about which there was all of that fuss with the mairie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And with it being Tuesday, it’s the bio market in the Place General de Gaulle and you can see a couple of stalls in the background. But it’s not much of a bio market at all. Last time I looked, there were only two stalls and that’s not going to change significantly anyone’s eating habits.<\/p>\n

But the walk back home was pretty awful again with several stops for breath. I’m definitely right out of this.
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\"omerta<\/a>A little earlier we saw Gerlean<\/em> moored at the quayside by the fish processing plant and you were probably wandering where L’Omerta<\/em>, who usually lives there, was moored.<\/p>\n

She’s actually just there in the inner harbour, just to prove that she can do it at times when she wants to. It’s just a mystery why she doesn’t want to do it all the time.<\/p>\n

Also in shot is the trawler Hera<\/em> on her way back to the quayside after a day out fishing in the bay. And Victor Hugo<\/em> is there too. One of these days we’ll see her actually taking passengers out to the Channel Islands, although I’m not holding my breath.
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\"people<\/a>Before going into the apartment for a coffee I went to look down onto the beach.<\/p>\n

There were just one or two people down there this afternoon, and no-one brave enough to go into the water. It was a nice afternoon, but clearly not that nice.<\/p>\n

Back in the apartment I made myself a coffee but before I could drink it, I crashed out. And I was out for 90 minutes too in a really deep sleep.<\/p>\n

One of the things that was disappointing about that was that after yesterday, Zero didn’t come to watch over me while I was asleep. That was something that I actually found extremely touching. I’m not used to people being so solicitous about my welfare.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame that it never happens in real life. But then again I would take Zero in a dream watching over me rather than anyone whom I know in real life.
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While I was drinking my very cold coffee later on I had a listen to the dictaphone to see where I’d been during the night. There was a young person, a little person running around creating mayhem in a kitchen somewhere that was doing something for a fair or a f\u00eate or something but that’s all that I can remember.<\/p>\n

And then I was on a beach somewhere but it wasn’t a beach it was a snow field. It was like a holiday thing and a meeting and we’d all connected to the internet to try to follow this meeting. I’d managed to make a connection and I could follow it vaguely although it was clicking in and out. There were a few things that needed to be doing here and there and I could follow them vaguely. The girl in charge of it was coming round. She came to me and asked me how I was doing. I showed her that everything seemed to be fine and working after a fashion so she left me to it. People started breaking up and drifting away as it was starting to go dark and cold. I didn’t see much point in being here for very much longer so I was planning on drifting away as well, I reckoned, and seeing what maybe tomorrow might bring or later on that night somewhere else might happen<\/p>\n

Tea was a taco roll with rice and veg and then I sat down to type up my notes. I had intended to deal with my Welsh notes for my exam once I’d finished but Rosemary rang to tell me about her trip to the mairie<\/em> with her Ukrainian refugees in order to start their registration process. That should keep her busy for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

But right now I’m off to bed. An early night because I have a lot to do. Here’s hoping that I can do it without falling asleep. Or if I do, then that Zero will come to watch over me while I’m sleeping.<\/p>\n

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