{"id":20354,"date":"2025-08-26T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20354"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:05:00","slug":"tuesday-26th-august-2025-how-long-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20354","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 26th August 2025 &#8211; HOW LONG IS IT &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; since I&#8217;ve felt as ill as I have today?<\/p>\n<p>And how long is it since I&#8217;ve been to bed well before 23:00 (21:56 was when last night&#8217;s notes were published) and slept right through until the alarm sounded at 06:29?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it has been a day of all kinds of records, some of them unwelcome, and I hope that things improve quite rapidly as I can&#8217;t go on like this.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, though, I was in all kinds of states. I was feeling nauseous, my head was spinning round and I was absolutely flat-out tired. I dashed through my notes and staggered through my preparations for the night, and then fell into bed.<\/p>\n<p>During the night, I remember nothing at all, and no-one was more surprised than me to still be asleep when the alarm went off. It&#8217;s been an age since that has happened. It took me a while to stagger to my feet too &#8211; for two pins I&#8217;d have gone back to bed &#8211; and even longer to go to sort myself out in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Once I was ready, which took a lot longer than it ought, I went into the kitchen to take my morning medication. I must try to return to my old routine now that everything is calming down. I&#8217;ve forgotten the medication more times than I care to remember just recently.<\/p>\n<p>There was a task that remained uncompleted from when I was taken ill at dialysis yesterday. I was in the middle of splitting a music soundtrack, and I&#8217;d only completed &#8220;less than half&#8221; of it. There&#8217;s no time like the present so I had a good go at that to finish it off.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse interrupted me with his visit, and I do have to say that since he&#8217;s come back from his holiday, he&#8217;s become quite likeable as he was when I first met him. He was disappointed that the Hound of the Baskervilles has left though. <\/p>\n<p>Breakfast was next, and it was nice to have an unhurried, leisurely meal looking out of the window at the World as it walked by. Much as I liked the view from upstairs, outside here on the ground floor is much more animated. <\/p>\n<p>Back in here, I can&#8217;t remember what I did next. It wasn&#8217;t to go through my usual routine of seeing what had gone on during the night and transcribing the dictaphone notes, that&#8217;s for sure. It was probably something to do with trying to find some of the things that I need that have been put into boxes, there to remain, probably forever. <\/p>\n<p>There were a few people online with whom I wanted to chat, so that passed some time as well.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, I had a foot-fest. There had been a whole series of matches in the J D Cymru League yesterday and I had purposefully refrained from reading about them because the live match would have been when I was on my way home, so I wanted to watch it all in one go as if it were a live game.<\/p>\n<p>So this afternoon I had Connah&#8217;s Quay Nomads v Y Fflint from yesterday afternoon. And having watched Llanelli throw away a 2-goal lead to go down 4-2 to Llansawel the other day, this time it was the turn of Y Fflint to throw away a 2-goal lead, to go down 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>For the first half, Connah&#8217;s Quay were awful and Y Fflint made it look easy. But at half-time, the Nomads made no fewer than four substitutions, the first time that I have ever seen so many changes at half-time by one club. It obviously worked, because they stormed away throughout the second half.<\/p>\n<p>There were also all of the highlights of the other matches, including Colwyn Bay&#8217;s impressive 1-1 draw against perennial champions TNS. After four matches, Caernarfon are currently leading the table, and it&#8217;s been a very long time since that has happened.<\/p>\n<p>What with one thing and another, I&#8217;d almost forgotten the dictaphone notes. They were next on the list and the massive &#8220;War And Peace&#8221; from the previous night is now online. I&#8217;ve no idea what must have been going on during the other night, but there are tons of stuff, and it&#8217;s well-worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Having done that, I could then turn my attention to last night&#8217;s notes. At some point during the night I dreamed that my cleaner came down with a whole load of stuff that had been sitting around and about the apartment, and threatened me under pain of dire retribution to start to move anything around. However, I was in bed at the time and certainly didn&#8217;t feel like getting up so I didn&#8217;t say anything. I just left her to go about doing it. But after a good half-hour or so, I had a look at the time. It was 02:26 so it must have been a dream that I had had, probably because I couldn&#8217;t see any changes to any of the piles in here. So now I have to try to go back to sleep and hope that I can manage it before all my staff desert it all for the goldfields.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I can&#8217;t remember awakening at 02:26. And then we&#8217;ve had dreams within dreams before now, and I always find them to be an interesting phenomenon. Finally, the incident about the staff deserting for the goldfields reminds me of a <a href=\"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3505\" target=\"_blank\">VERY AMUSING INCIDENT ONCE WHEN I WAS IN LABRADOR<\/a>. Who will ever forget <strong><em>&#34;Gold Strike at Bear Creek&#34;<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Later on, we&#8217;d moved into some new digs. I was sitting there, comfortably thinking that when we all go out on Tuesday, I would go and buy a motorbike for myself. That way, I could travel to and from work and everywhere I want to go much more easily. Of course, my brother thought that the idea was silly. He said that it would be two weeks before I fell off it, or something like that. However, I decided that that was what I would do. In the end, I ended up having a discussion with the landlady of where we were staying. She talked about different things, and I happened to mention that I might go back on the buses. She said that that was a huge jump up from driving a car. Did I think that I&#8217;d be safe? Did I think that I wouldn&#8217;t have any problems? Etc. I told her that I used to drive for Shearings, which lit up her eyes. She said &#8220;ohh, well you&#8217;ll probably remember me then&#8221;. Just as she was about to say why, the alarm went off.              <\/p>\n<p>Apart from my family sticking the oar in, imagine these days still being asleep when the alarm went off. Had I been awake, I would have missed this little voyage.<\/p>\n<p>All through the day, I had been feeling nauseous, my head had been spinning and by the late afternoon, my vision had become blurred and I could hardly see what I was doing. I couldn&#8217;t find the force to stand up and I wasn&#8217;t feeling at all hungry, even though I&#8217;d eaten nothing since breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>However, I forced myself into the kitchen, later than usual, and made a bowl of pasta and vegetables with one of the vegan burgers that I have. I didn&#8217;t feel like eating it but if I don&#8217;t make an effort, I&#8217;m going to be seriously ill one of these days &#8230; <em>&#34;as if you aren&#8217;t already&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Standing up afterwards, my head was spinning around and I could barely find the energy to stay standing upright, crutches or not.<\/p>\n<p>But now that I&#8217;ve finished my notes, I&#8217;m off to bed, horribly late.<\/p>\n<p>But seeing as we have been talking about the saloon in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3JAkvTt\" target=\"_blank\">CARRY ON COWBOY<\/a> &#8230; <em>&#34;well, one of us has&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; in the same saloon, the local preacher came in to preach to the cowboys about the evils of the demon drink.<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;Would you like a whisky first?&#34;<\/em><\/strong> asked the bartender.<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;No evil liquor should ever touch my lips&#34;<\/em><\/strong> roared the preacher. <strong><em>&#34;I would rather spend the night in a brothel with a woman of ill-repute!&#34;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAt that, several cowboys dashed up to the bar and handed back their whiskies to the bartender.<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;Why are you doing this?&#34;<\/em><\/strong> asked the aforementioned.<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;Well&#34;<\/em><\/strong> replied the cowboys <strong><em>&#34;we didn&#8217;t realise that we had a choice.&#34;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-20354 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='20354' data-nonce='77883b2e70' 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-20354 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-20354 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='20354' data-nonce='77883b2e70' 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-20354 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-20354 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; since I&#8217;ve felt as ill as I have today? And how long is it since I&#8217;ve been to bed well before 23:00 (21:56 was when last night&#8217;s notes were published) and slept right through until the alarm sounded at 06:29? Yes, it has been a day of all kinds of records, some of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,16250,12057],"tags":[4788,1104,2969,13274,3325,3357,212,1712,2560,12059,5287,5565,8581,801,389,1137,1217,15372,12058,3351],"class_list":["post-20354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-n6","category-nurse","tag-bad-night","tag-blog","tag-carry-on-cowboy","tag-colwyn-bay","tag-connahs-quay-nomads","tag-donald","tag-dream","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-flint-town-united","tag-football","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-httpwww-amazon-co-uk","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-ill-health","tag-jd-cymru-premier-league","tag-n6","tag-nurse","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354","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=20354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20356,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354\/revisions\/20356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}