{"id":16079,"date":"2022-06-19T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16079"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:35:48","slug":"sunday-19th-june-2022-here-we-all-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16079","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 19th June 2022 – HERE WE ALL ARE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"strawberry<\/a>… not exactly sitting in a rainbow but sitting in a Premiere Classe hotel in Tours in Western France.<\/p>\n

And when I say “we” I really do mean “we” for I am not alone. As you might expect, STRAWBERRY MOOSE<\/a> has come with me too. I can’t leave him behind.<\/p>\n

And just in case you are wondering, I’ve already made a considerable list of things that I’ve forgotten. Most people make a lost and pack accordingly. I pack and then make a list of what I’ve forgotten.<\/p>\n

Despite a late night last night I was awake at 08:30 and drifted in and out of sleep for another couple of hours
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After the meds and checking the medication I started to back up the big computer onto the little portable memory stick that travels with me. And that wasn’t the work of five minutes.<\/p>\n

Then I had to finish off emptying out Caliburn and packing up everything to go in him. The final task was to do all of the washing up and cleaning and then disinfect everywhere.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of notes on the dictaphone too. I was writing stuff for a radio programme, the notes for the music. One was for a particular group from the 60s. I remembered seeing them and I got on really well with them. They were busted for drugs like most groups were at the time. I always remembered the last time I saw the girl singer was that some of her group had gone already. She was singing with just one or two of them in the street on this makeshift stage. At the end she got off and came over to see me smiling and we bumped fists. She wandered off down the street and that was the last I ever saw of her. I remember thinking about how nostalgic this was and things might have been different to everyone’s lives if instead of bumping fists I’d grabbed hold of her and held her like I wanted to do but I didn’t really know whether I should have done at the time.<\/p>\n

Later I was with Nerina and she was having problems as well with her new relationship. They were no longer sharing a room together. Where they worked in this motel they had a room made up for both of them but they were actually sleeping in separate rooms. I asked how long this had been going on and she replied “a couple of years”. Anyway they had been caught doing this and it had led to all kinds of different complications and for all kinds of different reasons that they were no longer actually living together.<\/p>\n

Finally there was a group of us on board a boat. We’d had a meal and we were doing the washing up on the back of the boat outside. There was a little guy on board something similar to Hercule Poirot. He came over and said that he had a request for us. We asked what it was and he asked could we go and do the washing up in the kitchen, in the sink. I couldn’t understand why so I asked him why but he couldn’t really come out with a really good answer. Someone else cottoned on to the fact that he didn’t think that the washing up was being done correctly. It needed to be done in running water and the plates properly scrubbed and everything like that. He didn’t think that what we were doing was very hygienic. I was basically on the point of telling him that if he wanted the washing up done down in the boat in the kitchen he can take the bowl away and do it himself rather than disturbing us who were doing it while he was doing nothing but discretion got the better of me. I tried to find out exactly what his precise objection was but for some unknown reason he wasn’t really all that keen in spelling it out. It was annoying me that we were working and he wasn’t and he didn’t like the way that we were working but he didn’t actually volunteer to come along and do the work himself if he wanted it done in a different way.<\/p>\n

There was much more to it than this but you really don’t want to know about it, especially if you are eating your tea right now.<\/p>\n

By 16:00 I was on the road again. First stop was at LeClerc to fuel up (and that cost me an arm and a leg) and then we had a leisurely drive through the French countryside.<\/p>\n

We hit Tours, 250 kms away, at 20:00 and saw a cheap B&B hotel so I left the ring road, found myself stuck on the motorway and couldn’t find my way back, came off and couldn’t get back on to retrace my steps.<\/p>\n

\"premiere<\/a>However, all was not lost. After I’d been driving for a while around the suburbs of Tours trying to find that hotel, a Premi\u00e8re Classe Hotel loomed up out of the gloom.<\/p>\n

A room was a mere \u20ac45:00 which I’ll take any time, and they arranged for a vegan pizza for me at a nearby hotel that even gave me 15% off.<\/p>\n

As you might expect, I’m totally wasted after the drive. I’m clearly not up to this. The day that I drove non-stop pulling a trailer for 32.5 hours are long-gone.<\/p>\n

But right now, I’m off to bed. I’ve earned a good night’s sleep.
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