{"id":18019,"date":"2024-02-25T20:55:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T20:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2024-02-25T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T20:55:03","slug":"sunday-25th-february-2024-ive-had-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18019","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 25th February 2024 – I’VE HAD A \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

… lovely chat with Ingrid this afternoon. Another one of our multilingual ones and which ended up as a Rosemaryesque conversation of 1 hour and 15 minutes. It’s nice to be popular.<\/p>\n

It’s also nice to have had a really good night’s sleep too. <\/p>\n

After the dictating the usual load of rubbish that passes for radio programme notes these days, I was in bed for 01:30. And then waking up ay 09:25 without having felt a thing, and then not leaving the bed until 11:30 What is there that is any better than that at my advanced age?<\/p>\n

First thing that I did was to look at my foot. I had to take off my elasticated stocking on the right foot last night as it was irritating the foot.<\/p>\n

A closer examination this morning reveals that the fabric of the sock has rubbed it raw for some reason and it’s inflamed. The skin is flaking around the wound too so a day or so in the fresh air followed by a disinfected cloth covering will do it good.<\/p>\n

It’s a good job that I have some surgical tissues and alcohol disinfectant. They should help it heal and in the meantime I’ll show it to the doctor at the Centre de Re-education when I go there in 10 days.<\/p>\n

Next step was to check my blood pressure. This morning it was 17.4\/10.1 which compares with last night’s 17.7\/10.5. So what excited me during the night? it certainly wasn’t TOTGA, Castor or Zero.<\/p>\n

After the medication I came back in here to find out what had happened during the night. And it was rather disappointing, if not depressing. I’d been in a van with someone and we’d been driving somewhere. We had to stop because the person with me wanted a cup of coffee. We had a rope with us and I wanted to tie it up to something so that it would stay in the van. The only thing that I could find was the handgrip over the door. I tied the rope there with a kind of knot and went out to have my coffee. For some reason the rope wouldn’t stay tied. tt managed to untie itself and at that moment I actually awoke. That rope wasn’t right for some reason.<\/p>\n

That’s not exactly what I call an exciting dream. The way things are in my life right now he only excitement that I have is what goes on during the night.<\/p>\n

And not just with TOTGA, Zero or Castor either. While of course I’m delighted if one of them comes along with me on a travel, that’s really the icing on the cake. Having adventures, voyages and bizarre encounters is what my dreams should be all about regardless of who (with the exception of my family of course) comes with me.<\/p>\n

Boring, sad and uneventful encounters have no place to play in my life, especially during the hours of darkness.<\/p>\n

Instead I went for lunch – cheese on toast and porridge with strong black coffee to fire up the imagination.. And there are no complaints about my bread. It’s not perfection – in fact, it’s a long way from it, but it’s better than a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Back in here, rather later than usual, I made a start on the radio programme whose notes needed editing. And while I was … errr … elsewhere during a little break, Ingrid phoned me. <\/p>\n

after I’d washed my hands I phoned her back and we had our lengthy chat. Her elderly cat, who was 20 years old, has died, so she told me. And that’s sad news. Mind you, 20 years s a good age for a cat, especially around the Auvergne with so many predators<\/p>\n

She’s talking about coming up to see me, which will be lovely. In fact there are a couple of people in the Auvergne who have been talking about coming up here. Not just to see me of course, but to have a little holiday break, and Ingrid is talking about hitching a ride with them.<\/p>\n

If they do all come up here, it’ll make a nice break for them and a welcome distraction for me. Up here locked in my little room while my leg is healed and the lift is being repaired is doing me no good.<\/p>\n

They say that the lift might be fixed by Friday in which case I can go to the shops on the bus.<\/p>\n

The lifts here only go to the half-landings which is a shame. They don’t actually go to the floors where the front door is or the apartments are.<\/p>\n

That’s something that sounds very strange but this is a 17th Century building built before lifts of course, and as it’s a registered historic building we can’t knock it about how we like<\/p>\n

Before Ingrid phoned I was planning on making some biscuits as I’d run out but it was too late now. Instead I went and rolled out the pizza dough that had been defrosting since I took it from the freezer after lunch.<\/p>\n

Yes, Ingrid on the phone or not, nothing will stop the relentless march of the Sunday pizza.<\/p>\n

So now that my notes are written, I’ll have a think about finishing off the assembly of the radio programme and then choose the final track and write the notes for it. I’m not sure if I’m up to dictating them but we’ll see. Ralph Marston said "Rest when you\u2019re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work"<\/em><\/strong> but if I were to do that, I would never ever restart.<\/p>\n

With this new medication, I’ve noticed several side-effects kicking in. I’m having difficulty with my eyes (hence the typos), I’m all confused (you should see the mess that I’ve made of this radio programme) and I’m just so tired – all the time too.<\/p>\n

There was an interesting paragraph in the Woolhope Naturalists (not “Naturists”) Club’s 1867 Annual Report which said that "the history of a people, for the most part, is but the detail of the trials and calamities that have occurred to them"<\/em><\/strong>, and that is something with which I can personally relate.<\/p>\n

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