{"id":16122,"date":"2022-07-08T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16122"},"modified":"2022-07-08T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:17:19","slug":"friday-8th-july-2022-back-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16122","title":{"rendered":"Friday 8th July 2022 – BACK IN THE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"boats<\/a>… same old routine now that I’m home. It didn’t take long, did it?<\/p>\n

So while you admire several photos of the activity that is taking place out at sea this afternoon I shall regale you all with tales of my first day back at home.<\/p>\n

But before I do, I’ll mention a couple of things that I forgot to say yesterday. Firstly, I cut my hair and secondly I’m 2kg lighter than I was before I set out. Maybe the two events are connected. I dunno.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when the alarm went off, I was in no hurry to leave my bed and it was much more like 09:15 when I finally staggered out into the light. And I’ll probably do the same tomorrow too.
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\"speedboat<\/a>Having had my medication I downloaded … GULP …<\/em> 47 sound files off the dictaphone, all of which will have to be transcribed at some point in the near future.<\/p>\n

However, I did transcribe a couple of them that related to my travels last night. I was on another road trip. There was me, someone who might have been my youngest sister and a few other people. We were all in a car going places. For some reason one of these people was taking so long getting ready that in the end I ended up with a mouthful of her Pringles. She looked at me and asked “where did you get those Pringles?”. I replied “I don’t know”. The little girl laughed and said “they are your Pringles because you didn’t come”. I asked the little girl if she still had the notebook of where we were supposed to go. She couldn’t find it so I had to look back at the table where we were sitting. In the end she did find it and gave it back to us. I had to then get into the car and prepare to drive away. It was all a very happy, cheerful dream of lunchtime out on a road trip although I had a feeling that the circumstances around the trip were not so joyful.
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\"yachts<\/a>Later on a girl called Judith (not the one we know) rang me up and asked me to pick her up somewhere across the Spanish border at Sinfin. I asked her what Sinfin was and she replied that it was a place. She couldn’t give me any more details and hung up. Just then another girl, a girl I used to know in Stoke on Trent, a small cheerful girl came round as I was going and asked if I could run her across the border to somewhere else. She got in and I drove her over there. I said that I had to go to pick up Judith. She replied that Judith was absolutely wasted. I explained that when she rang me up she didn’t sound too bad at all but this girl was quite insistent. I asked her if she knew where this place Sinfin was. She had no idea so I went back to the border where I thought that i’d speak to a guy in one of the bars to ask him. There was no-one around and when he came out he was busy. Following my instincts I drove off down this road and came across a cottage with the big word SINFIN written on the side. There was a girl asleep in the hallway so I walked in and shouted “taxi”. She jumped out of her skin. I said that i’d come for Judith. She replied ‘I don’t think that Judith’s here”. We had a chat about Judith and a chat about the place and a chat about the party that had gone on etc and I awoke right in the middle of it. I’d love to know how it ended.
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\"yachts<\/a>Most of the rest of the day has been spent dealing with the photos from July that i’d taken while I was away.<\/p>\n

When I go out later I’ll be taking photos of course (if the camera works) so I need to know which number I’ve reached. There weren’t too many and I wasn’t in a rush. and dozing off for half an hour or so didn’t help much. And that after having a lie-in too!<\/p>\n

There was the usual pause for breakfast of course, the remains of yesterday’s baguette sliced in two lengthways and stuck in the toaster. But no lunch. Having managed to lose some weight while I was away, I’m going to try my best to keep it off.<\/p>\n

Not that I imagine that I’ll be very successful.
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\"people<\/a>Rather later than usual, thanks to my little … errr … rest, I went out for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n

And as usual, just to show that I haven’t forgotten anything, I went over to have a look down onto the beach to see what was happening there.<\/p>\n

It’s the holiday season right now. School has broken up for summer and so we can expect the crowds. And there were several people down there enjoying the sun.<\/p>\n

And by the looks of things, it seems that a few people had even been brave enough to try their luck in the sea. However they managed to scramble out before I could take a photo of them in flagrante delicto<\/em>.
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\"fisherman<\/a>Surprisingly there weren’t very many people out here on the path this afternoon so I didn’t have to dodge around anyone to avoid their germs.<\/p>\n

Across the car park I went down to the end of the headland to look at what was happening there. There was someone down there having a fish from off the rocks but we didn’t see him catch anything.<\/p>\n

What was puzzling me however was why he had decided to take his dog with him. There can’t have been very much of interest that would have attracted the dog’s attention and kept him amused.<\/p>\n

The tide was well in today too so there wasn’t any room for anyone at the p\u00e8che \u00e0 pied<\/em>.
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\"cabanon<\/a>Nevertheless there was plenty going on out at sea and we have seen a few photos of the action too. There was much more too that I didn’t photograph.<\/p>\n

And they had an audience too. As I watched, someone walking around on the lower path walked down to the bench by the cabanon vauban<\/em> to have a good rest.<\/p>\n

There were actually quite a few people down there on the lower path, including a rather bored toddler who was having something of a mini-tantrum. He wasn’t enjoying it.<\/p>\n

But that’s a problem for himself and his parents. I cleared off along the path on the other side of the headland towards the port.
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\"philcathane<\/a>Having been away for almost three weeks, I wanted to see what was going on in the port.<\/p>\n

First … errr … port of call was the chantier naval<\/em>, which had been quite busy before I left. What we had today (and yesterday because I saw her as I drove past) was Philcathane<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She’s looking quite smart and so I wonder if she’s had a new coat of paint while I’ve been away.<\/p>\n

If you look closely you can see the Plimsoll Line on her beam. That’s some kind of weird complicated drawing with horizontal lines that indicate how she must ride in the sea, depending on the type of sea that she is to sail.<\/p>\n

It’s always interesting to see a ship’s “WNA” (Winter North Atlantic) load line and see how it differs from any other line that is included in the Plimsoll Line. Those seas can be extremely rough and you don’t want a ship to be too low in the water in case it’s swamped.
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\"belle<\/a>As for the rest of the chantier naval<\/em> there isn’t anyone at all in there.<\/p>\n

The last time that we were here, the chantier naval<\/em> was occupied by L’Alize III<\/em> Charles Marie II<\/em> and Wavecat Express<\/em> but they all seem to have gone back into the water. And as regular readers of this rubbish will recall, I’m keen to know what’s going on with Wavecat Express<\/em><\/p>\n

Over at the ferry terminal we have Belle France<\/em> and I’m not sure why because she won’t have time to make it over to the Ile de Chausey and back on this tide now and the next high tide will be late at night.<\/p>\n

Her sisters however aren’t out there at the ferry terminal though so they are presumably out at the island.
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\"les<\/a>No-one playing Musical Ships today so I wandered off down the path towards the inner harbour.<\/p>\n

No trace of Marit\u00e9<\/em> today though. She has gone off for a trip out and about and is at Lorient even as we speak. She left Granville on 26th June, so I believe.<\/p>\n

The boat that is there at her berth is, I think, Les Epiettes<\/em>, the boat from the Ponts and Chauss\u00e9es<\/em> and over there on the right is the trawler Cap PIlar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On the quayside they are erecting some marquees. Some time during the summer there’s a Festival of Working Sailing Boats and I wonder if they are preparing for that.
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\"victor<\/a>When we were here last before we set off on our trip, Victor Hugo<\/em> wasn’t here.<\/p>\n

But now, she’s back at her berth in the inner harbour. It looks as if they aren’t all that busy running out to the Channel Islands right now, which is a surprise.<\/p>\n

Also over there is Chausiaise<\/em>, the little freighter that runs out to the Ile de Chausey.<\/p>\n

Back here I made myself a coffee and worked through the photos that I’d taken while I was out on my afternoon walk so that I would be up to date. The photos for June, I’ll deal with them in due course.
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Tea tonight was pasta and a burger, and then I came in here to write my notes. Once they are on line I’ll be off to bed. No shopping tomorrow but I’ll walk down into town to buy a baguette, and see how I get on walking back up again. I don’t think that there will be an improvement but I hope that things aren’t worse.<\/p>\n

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