{"id":18320,"date":"2024-05-11T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18320"},"modified":"2024-05-11T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:33:16","slug":"11th-may-2024-ive-had-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18320","title":{"rendered":"11th May 2024 &#8211; I&#8217;VE HAD A &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; footfest this afternoon. It&#8217;s the semi-finals of the play-offs to decide which Welsh team will take the fourth place allotted to Wales in European Club competition in the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>TNS will go into the Champions League, hoping to qualify for the group stages at long last<\/p>\n<p>Connah&#8217;s Quay and Y Bala will go into the Europa League by virtue of finishing second and third, and another place in the Europa League due to Wales will be awarded to the winner of the playoffs<\/p>\n<p>And so we started off with Y Drenewydd v Penybont followed by Caernarfon v Cardiff Metro.<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, I was quite looking forward to it all. And for the first time since I can&#8217;t remember, I was actually in bed before 23:00. And that&#8217;s not something that happens all that often these days. I could have been in bed much earlier than I was too but with all of the aches and pains that I was carrying, it was really difficult to actually get into bed. <\/p>\n<p>With having this early night, I was looking forward to a long, undisturbed sleep but it wasn&#8217;t to be. It was a really disturbed, turbulent night.<\/p>\n<p>There was another phantom alarm call and I forget how many of these we&#8217;ve had just recently. I&#8217;ve no idea what&#8217;s going on with them &#8211; where they are coming from and what they are doing &#8211; but it&#8217;s certainly confusing.<\/p>\n<p>When the real alarm went off I found that it was easier to move out of bed. Many of the aches and pains had gone and the pain in my hip had reduced a little and I could lift my leg more.<\/p>\n<p>So now that I was out of bed I went to the bathroom and then into the dining area for my medication.<\/p>\n<p>Having done that I set out the room for the nurse and came in here to see what&#8217;s happening in the big wide world. But as any student of history will tell you, the news today is just the same things happening to different people in different places at different times.<\/p>\n<p>After the nurse had gone, having given me a shopping list of items needed, I came in here for a relax. And then I listened to the dictaphone to find out where I&#8217;d been during the night. I had another niece last night. It was a non-existent niece, someone small and petite. She sat and we chatted for ages about her course and the future. When she was ready to go I asked her where she was staying. She hadn&#8217;t booked anywhere so I told her that my settee was really comfortable and she was welcome to stay on it. She wondered how any other person was going to stay there because there were two nieces wandering around and how I was going to distinguish which was which too. That was easy because one had a tie with a small emblem on it. The other one had a tie with a big emblem on it so I could distinguish them by that. I could see that this was going to be complicated but it didn&#8217;t seem to bother me on the ground that it&#8217;s all going to work out normally anyway. Then we had someone coming, brandishing a gun and being obnoxious. I don&#8217;t know what he wanted or anything like that but he totally disrupted everything that we were trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nothing new. Whenever I was trying to do something back in the old days, there would always be someone coming along being obnoxious and trying to disrupt whatever it was that I was doing. And if there was a young girl involved anywhere, you could bet your life that they&#8217;d be down in droves to put <em>le baton dans la roue<\/em> as they say around here.<\/p>\n<p>Then at one point a girl was pouring some new information into my travelling laptop. I was very concerned so I awoke to try to stop her but just at the point where it became liquid memory she began to pour the liquid memory I had to shout at her to make her stop and I really did shout as well. I washed hem and got ready and ended up back in bed until the alarm<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I really did shout in the middle of my sleep. It&#8217;s a good job that these walls are 1m20 of solid granite or whatever would the neighbours have said?<\/p>\n<p>Then we finished off with this complicated story about addition and subtraction over the numbers. I had quite a batch to do which I did mainly right and managed to ensure my team&#8217;s presence in the Scottish League 2 next season<\/p>\n<p>And that reminds me &#8211; we have the first leg of the playoffs between Stranraer of Scottish League 2 and East Kilbride of the Scottish Lowland League at some point this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And then I had a message. There&#8217;s an &#8220;issue&#8221; simmering in the UK that&#8217;s been simmering away for almost 30 years. I think that I&#8217;ve mentioned this before. It&#8217;s now erupted and like Pandora&#8217;s Box, once the lid is off then that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a considerable amount of work that needs to be done that should really have been done 40 years ago but it wasn&#8217;t, and the events of the last 28 years haven&#8217;t helped. So if you see me loitering on Boots Corner any time, you&#8217;ll know why I&#8217;m there.<\/p>\n<p>After this I crashed out &#8211; from 10:00 until 11:50. Dead to the World as well. But not that I&#8217;m complaining this time because I saw Zero. While I was asleep this morning I was with a former friend. I&#8217;d finally managed to persuade him to come to see me with the intentions of thrashing out some programme about repairing all these cars that I have. I&#8217;d walked down this track through this forest and encountered Zero playing in a school playground so we&#8217;d chatted but that was all. I pushed on and came across my former friend and we began to chat. I was going to tell him that I had \u00a390:000 for the programme but we never reached that far in the discussion. We had several bikes ad had to move them by moving two, dropping them down, running back for two more and advancing lie this. At one point I had to run back miles because the exhaust had dropped off a motor bike we were moving. While I was up on top of this grassy bank my former friend came back to see what I was doing so I showed him. He was furious. &#8220;this is jus attention to detail&#8221; he raged and urged me to hurry up. By now this grassy bank had changed into a roof with a chimney and some dormer windows and I couldn&#8217;t work out how to descend. I thought that manoeuvring by holding on to the chimney and pivoting round by hanging on to the edge of the dormer window would be my best bet but the window opened and I was left dangling in thin air with no prospect whatever of improving my position.<\/p>\n<p>It was really nice to see Zero of course but this &#8220;no prospect of improving my position&#8221; sounds like how my finances will be in a few months after the news that I received earlier.<\/p>\n<p>By now, breakfast had become lunch so I fuelled up with food and then settled down to watch the football.<\/p>\n<p>Y Drenewydd finished 4th in the league and Penybont 7th so the game was held at Drenewydd. But home advantage counted for nothing as they were swept aside by what can only be described as a Penybont masterclass.<\/p>\n<p>The game finished 5-0 for Penybont and believe me &#8211; Y Drenewydd were lucky to get nil. They were awful. It wasn&#8217;t just that Penybont were so good but that Y Drenewydd offered nothing at all<\/p>\n<p>The other game between 5th and 6th and played at Caernarfon in front of a massive crowd was much more exciting. <\/p>\n<p>Caernarfon roared down the left flank with a combination of Louis LLoyd and Morgan Owen more times than you can mention but the final ball was always either too short of too long.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the Met soaked up the pressure and tried to hit on the breakaway and had three excellent chances to score but couldn&#8217;t find the target.<\/p>\n<p>The game was drifting to a 0-0 draw and penalties when Marc Williams drilled a powerful shot through a crowd of players into the net<\/p>\n<p>And as Cardiff Metro were throwing everything forward to try to equalise in the closing stages a breakaway involving Sion Bradley and Adam Davies saw Davies score a second for the Cofis<\/p>\n<p>So the final next weekend will be between Caernarfon and Penybont and played at Caernarfon.<\/p>\n<p>And then, dear reader, I crashed out again. And for an hour or so too.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was one of my breaded quorn fillets with baked potato and salad. I know that it&#8217;s monotonous, but it&#8217;s also delicious.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s all that I&#8217;m doing tonight. I&#8217;m going to try to be in bed early and see if Zero will come back into my dreams.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll tell her <strong><em>&#34;I dreamed about you this morning&#34;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;Did you?&#34;<\/em><\/strong> she&#8217;ll reply.<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;No&#34;<\/em><\/strong> I&#8217;ll answer. <strong><em>&#34;You wouldn&#8217;t let me&#34;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-18320 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='18320' data-nonce='15be513adc' 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-18320 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-18320 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='18320' data-nonce='15be513adc' 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-18320 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-18320 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; footfest this afternoon. It&#8217;s the semi-finals of the play-offs to decide which Welsh team will take the fourth place allotted to Wales in European Club competition in the forthcoming season. TNS will go into the Champions League, hoping to qualify for the group stages at long last Connah&#8217;s Quay and Y Bala will go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,12057,7876,418],"tags":[15674,15089,1235,8292,10756,1302,212,2560,5287,5565,1146,8581,15891,15706,2316,12717,7891,15841,5390,273,9354,833,4882],"class_list":["post-18320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-nurse","category-place-darmes","category-tahu","tag-adam-davies","tag-air-fryer","tag-baked-potatoes","tag-caernarfon-town","tag-cardiff-metropolitan","tag-crash-out","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-football","tag-france","tag-gainsborough-road","tag-granville","tag-louis-lloyd","tag-morgan-owen","tag-paul_h","tag-penybont","tag-place-darmes","tag-sion-bradley","tag-tahu","tag-tawny","tag-vegan-salad","tag-welsh-football","tag-y-drenewydd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320","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=18320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18321,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320\/revisions\/18321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}