{"id":20053,"date":"2025-06-10T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20053"},"modified":"2025-06-11T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:50:19","slug":"tuesday-10th-june-2025-it-seems-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20053","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 10th June 2025 – IT SEEMS THAT …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… our Welsh course has come to an end for this year. Our tutor sent us the details of the homework for the unit that we have just finished, but there was no link for the next lesson.<\/p>\n

A short while later, there was another mail with a link, but for a chat reunion at the end of July. So that seems to be that until September.<\/p>\n

It isn’t really, though, because I have a couple of summer courses coming up and then I stumbled across a whole list of short courses for special interest groups, such as football supporters, transport workers, all different kinds of things. And I’m also going to look out for a few more virtual classroom courses.<\/p>\n

Having some kind of face-to-face structured course is important for me because I’m not able to discipline myself sufficiently, and what with austerity and all of that, I can’t afford those ladies in Soho any more so self-discipline is important.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back at the ran … errr … apartment, I failed once again to go to bed at any kind of realistic time, despite not having all that much to do. In the end it was nearer midnight than 23:00 when I finally crawled into bed.<\/p>\n

Once under the quilt, I remember nothing whatsoever. I must have fallen asleep immediately and there I lay, totally painlessly, until 06:15. And that, I reckon, is the longest continual sleep that I’ve had for quite some considerable time.<\/p>\n

It was also the deepest because, as I noticed with dismay, once again there was nothing on the dictaphone.<\/p>\n

However, I have made an executive decision – and for the benefit of new readers … "of whom there are more than just a few these days" – ed<\/em> … an executive decision is one when, if it’s the wrong decision, the person making it is executed. <\/p>\n

What I’ve decided is that I’m going to advance the alarm to 06:29 in the morning. In the good old days I used to have the alarm set at 06:00, then as my condition developed it went to 07:30, and as I adapted to things, it came backwards to 07:00. What I’ll do for now is to see how 6:30 works. <\/p>\n

In the bathroom I had a good wash and then went to sort out the medication for the morning.<\/p>\n

Back in here I reviewed my Welsh homework and sent it off for marking. That didn’t take too long, and it was just as well because the nurse, with no blood samples to take or injections to do, was early. <\/p>\n

He didn’t hang about long, so I could make my breakfast and read MY NEW BOOK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite it being over 400 years since it was written, and thus containing a great many myths that subsequent investigations have disproved, it promises to be quite interesting. It mentions several little-known facts that have subsequently been proven to be true but are not in the generally-attributed wider knowledge.<\/p>\n

For example, after the defeat of Allectus and his army in 296 AD, some of his Frankish mercenary troops fled north where a wandering bunch of Roman soldiers, cut off by the fog from the main battle, trapped them in the streets of London and massacred them.<\/p>\n

It promises to be interesting for other reasons too. Our author, John Stow, says of London that "Tacitus, who first of all authors named it Londinium, saith, that, in the 62nd year after Christ, it was, albeit, no colony of the Romans, yet most famous for the great multitude of merchants, provision, and intercourse "<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe that was why the Editor of Aunt Judy’s magazine had her offices there.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I revised my Welsh and then went for my lesson. Once more, the extra preparation paid dividends and I made a lot of progress. I’m disappointed though that the lessons are coming to an end for the Summer. Just as I was starting to make progress too, after all of the barren times this last couple of years. I really need to find a way to push on.<\/p>\n

After lunch, Ingrid ‘phoned me and we had a very long chat. She has a lot of problems right now that are distracting her from whatever it is that she’s supposed to be doing. I hope that things go well for her soon.<\/p>\n

My cleaner put her sooty foot in the door too. With the news that the company that makes my vegan cheese is going out of business, when she was at LeClerc this morning she cleaned out their stock of grated cheese and it’s all in her fridge upstairs, even as we speak.<\/p>\n

The rest of the day has been spent drafting the lengthy reply to the kitchen fitter, with a whole list of answers to the questions that he’s asking. At least, however, he’s asking intelligent and thoughtful questions, and we’ll probably find that most of the work will be done on the desk and the computer, which will save a lot of time in the long run.<\/p>\n

Tea tonight was the stuffed pepper that I should have had yesterday, followed by ginger cake and soya dessert.<\/p>\n

So right now I’m off to bed ready for a day radioing tomorrow. It’s shower day too so I’ll be having a good clean, which is nice.<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about school and lessons … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … I am reminded of the story of the little boy who went to school for his very first day.
\nWhen he returned home, his mother asked him how he did. He replied "not very well, apparently"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Why was that?"<\/em><\/strong> asked his mother
\n"I can’t have done enough work"<\/em><\/strong> he replied. "They want me to go back tomorrow"<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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