{"id":16627,"date":"2023-01-11T22:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16627"},"modified":"2023-01-11T22:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:23:42","slug":"wednesday-11th-january-2023-im-not-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16627","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 11th January 2023 &#8211; I&#8217;M NOT GOING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to tell you what time I left my bed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I will tell you is that it wasn&#8217;t 07:30, that&#8217;s for sure. And another thing that I&#8217;ll say is that at least it was still morning.<\/p>\n<p>And it was a better night&#8217;s sleep too, without an awful lot of disturbances. One or two nevertheless. I was on the Millfields estate in Nantwich walking around and there was one of the tiny Ford Transit vans parked there. When I went past again the back was open and it was fitted out as a guy probably my age was sleeping in it. We started to have a chat. Someone else came along and joined us. We were talking mainly about politics . The conversation drifted around to John Henry and the Liverpool poets and the &#8220;Conservative Government Unemployment Figures&#8221; joke which I told incorrectly. They agreed with me that society was in a right mess these days as far as everyone like us was concerned.<\/p>\n<p>And later on I was in Canada in my father&#8217;s garage, which was actually the garage of my niece&#8217;s husband as well. I was there with this ancient Bedford  QL &#8230; <em>&#8220;actually he means an RL&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; They were doing something or other and asked if I had my tools with me. They were in the back of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/oldcars\/badger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BILL BADGER<\/a>, my old A60 van. They wandered off and when I went outside to look they had all my tools out everywhere looking for something. I went over, and it turned out that a socket had gone missing. They couldn&#8217;t find it. I said that it was a complete tool kit when I assembled it. We started looking over everywhere. I was climbing over this Bedford trying to find it. Someone mentioned something about it. I replied &#8220;yes, this was \u00a380, or $120 when I bought it in 1978. It&#8217;s still running&#8221;. Someone said &#8220;I thought you were in that yellow car&#8221; meaning the Cortina estate. I replied &#8220;yes, that was a bit more expensive, $350 but I thought that I&#8217;d give the Bedford a run out in Canada this time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d had my medication I had a few things to do in here, such as scanning all of the prescriptions that i&#8217;ve received just recently from the doctor and then spent an hour or so tidying up the worst of the apartment so that the cleaner wouldn&#8217;t die of fright when she arrived.<\/p>\n<p>While she was here I worked on the radio, trying to choose the music for the next few radio programmes. Not that I organised too many because you&#8217;ve no idea just how quickly an hour passes when you are busy.<\/p>\n<p>She was heading into town this afternoon after she&#8217;d been here so I gave her one of my prescriptions &#8211; the one for the pair of crutches that the doctor wants me to have &#8211; and she fetched them back for me. They need adjusting before I can use them so I&#8217;ll organise the physiotherapist when he comes tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But there is an improvement in the way that I&#8217;m moving about which isn&#8217;t actually difficult because it surely couldn&#8217;t have been much worse. I think that come Friday, if it&#8217;s not raining, I&#8217;ll try for the shop in the town centre again for my mushrooms and peppers. I&#8217;ll have to work out how to use the crutches and pull my shopping trolley along at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was a curry made of all of the leftovers in the fridge, lengthened by a potato. And it was actually quite nice. Tomorrow I might have a slice of pie with potatoes and veg. I have plenty of potatoes following the delivery of my food order last weekend and they will go off if I don&#8217;t use them.<\/p>\n<p>And that reminds me &#8211; I have the lettuce to use as well. I mustn&#8217;t forget that. But it&#8217;s a Batavia and they do keep longer than an Iceberg. And how I wish that I had bought a bigger fridge. We&#8217;ll have to see what we can do about that in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now I&#8217;m off to bed. Tomorrow I&#8217;m going to be doing another radio programme in order to keep up with this two per week for the next while until I end up about 6 months ahead. That way, there will be plenty of room for manoeuvre if something happens that I&#8217;m not able to prepare any, such as happened when I was in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>There won&#8217;t be an 06:00 start though. And there won&#8217;t be an 07:30 start either, if recent events are anything to go by.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-16627 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='16627' data-nonce='59a919cba4' 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-16627 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-16627 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='16627' data-nonce='59a919cba4' 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-16627 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-16627 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to tell you what time I left my bed this morning. One thing that I will tell you is that it wasn&#8217;t 07:30, that&#8217;s for sure. And another thing that I&#8217;ll say is that at least it was still morning. And it was a better night&#8217;s sleep too, without an awful lot of disturbances. 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