{"id":16558,"date":"2022-12-11T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16558"},"modified":"2022-12-11T20:45:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:45:15","slug":"sunday-11th-december-2022-im-exhausted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16558","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 11th December 2022 &#8211; I&#8217;M EXHAUSTED &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and it&#8217;s not as if I&#8217;ve done anything either today. I&#8217;m on 3% of my daily target, having staggered a mere 200 metres all day.<\/p>\n<p>And as I said yesterday, I haven&#8217;t put my sooty foot outside the door either.<\/p>\n<p>Being up and about at 09:45 is already something on a Sunday but it&#8217;s even more astonishing considerind that I didn&#8217;t go to bed until 02:00 or thereabouts. Actually I was in bed before midnight, having crashed out in my chair, but once I&#8217;d lain down, all thoughts of sleep had disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>The computer was doing something so I had left it, but with all thoughts of sleep gone, I raised myself from the dead and finished it off properly.<\/p>\n<p>There were several trips down the corridor too, and Brain of Britain had left the alarm switched on at 06:00 as well, so all in all last night was a mess.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of stuff on the dictaphone too, and much of it was the same. This time I can tell you all about it. I dreamed that I was married and that my wife and I had been away for a while. When we came back we found that my mother had actually divorced my father and married the father of my bride.<\/p>\n<p>And as it happened I didn&#8217;t just dream this once but I dreamt this two other times as well during different stages of the night<\/p>\n<p>There was something in there too at one point during the night about the buses on which I&#8217;d been travelling just recently. Someone was marshalling the buses. It involved them going round a roundabout somwhere and disappearing off up one of the exits. On the one occasion when I was doing it on my own it meant that one of the buses had to come back from that exit so there was a kind-of marshall there who was standing there in the middle of the road stopping it coming back on the roundabout. I couldn&#8217;t work out what that was all about either<\/p>\n<p>When I finally aroused myself from the dead I had a few things to do here and there, such as tidying up in here, sorting out some papers and sending off a few e-mails. There&#8217;s a mountain of correspondence that has built up that needs my attention and I&#8217;m a long way from dealing with it all so my apologies in advance.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a bill that need paying and I couldn&#8217;t leave that any longer.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I had to sort out the music for the radio programme that I&#8217;ll be preparing on Monday. Things need to get back to normal. It&#8217;s going to be a &#8220;special&#8221; so I had to choose the music and remix it, as well as pairing it all off.<\/p>\n<p>There was even time to write out half of the notes too. I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself again, and I should think so too. Things have been running to seed a little as a result of all of my exertions over this last &#8230; errr &#8230; 11 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a break for the football &#8211; Y Drenewydd v Hwlffordd in the Welsh Premier League. Considering the glacial weather conditions it was quite an exciting match played with a considerable amounnt of skill and was another one of these games that was a good advert for the league.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Jones, who has featured in these pages quite often, was pulling the strings in the midfield for Hwlffordd but his team-mates couldn&#8217;t match his skill of endeavour. They did however have plenty of the ball, hit the post once and had several good chances to score on other occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Y Drenewydd scored two which was rather flattering I suppose really, and their opening goal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch?v=3223685624612204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAS SUBLIME<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was nice to see a couple of mid-table teams let the ball do most of the work, a style of which I happen to appreciate. If I were to manage a football team, the emphasis would be on the quick passing game.<\/p>\n<p>One or two of my friends have been in the habit of mocking me due to the amount of tinned food that I have here. However I did a quick inventory and found that at a puch I can keep going with tinned &#8216;basics&#8221; for at least a fortnight. There&#8217;s a lot to be said for a good supply of tinned food, as I knew that there would be.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight though, it was pasta in spicy tomato sauce with frozen veg and a couple of small, breadcrumbed soya burgers. That will keep me out of mischief for a while. And while we&#8217;re on the subject of frozen food, this is an opportunity for me to thin out the stocks in there a bit too.<\/p>\n<p>There is always the possibility of having a home delivery, but it costs \u20ac10:00, there&#8217;s nothing like the choice of foods, and what there is is much more expensive than trying to buy it over the counter. But it&#8217;s an avenue to explore, I reckon, if things go badly and I can&#8217;t get out. But I draw the line at paying \u20ac2:49 for a kilo of fresh, dirty carrots when 2kgs of washed fresh carrots costs \u20ac1:29. They don&#8217;t &#8216;arf stoke it up.<\/p>\n<p>But for the moment I&#8217;ve put the spare battery for Caliburn on charge overnight. If I can enlist some aid to take the battery downstairs, I can swap it over. And then I&#8217;ll just have to worry about climbing into the cab.<\/p>\n<p>However, that&#8217;s for another day. I need to concentrate on things that are of more immediate concern, like the radio programme. 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I&#8217;m on 3% of my daily target, having staggered a mere 200 metres all day. And as I said yesterday, I haven&#8217;t put my sooty foot outside the door either. Being up and about at 09:45 is already something on a Sunday but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[4788,13133,212,2560,5287,5565,8581,13915,11978,1217,7891,4882],"class_list":["post-16558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-bad-night","tag-bouquet-granvillais","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-football","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-haverfordwest-county","tag-henry-jones","tag-jd-cymru-premier-league","tag-place-darmes","tag-y-drenewydd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16559,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions\/16559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}