{"id":20984,"date":"2026-03-25T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20984"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:52:56","slug":"wednesday-25th-march-2025-it-has-been-wednesday-25th-march-2025-it-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20984","title":{"rendered":"
Wednesday 25th March 2025 – IT HAS BEEN … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… a strange kind of day today \u2014 neither one thing nor another. I’m not quite sure why but if ever there was a day of two halves, this was it.<\/p>\n

Take last night, for instance. Even though I was late … "yet again" – ed<\/em> … finishing off everything that needed finishing, I wasn’t in the least bit tired and I ended up sitting around for a while listening to a concert by Renaissance. As a result, I was quite late going to bed, and it was all my fault.<\/p>\n

Not being tired, it took me a while to go to sleep but apart from one moment, more of which anon<\/em>, I slept right through until just a couple of minutes before the alarm \u2014 06:24 if I remember correctly. Not that there was any prospect of me claiming an early start by sliding my feet onto the floor before the alarm went off \u2014 that four minutes in bed was valuable.<\/p>\n

Even so, when the alarm went off, it took me a good few minutes to raise myself from the Dead and head off into the bathroom. And then into the kitchen for my hot drink and medication.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I had a listen to the dictaphone to find out what had happened during the night. <\/p>\n

\nThere had been a dance at an army camp and plenty of male and female soldiers had attended. During the evening, a couple of males and a couple of females had made themselves into couples. At the end of the dance, when everyone was due to go home, one of the female soldiers remarked that there would be a bed empty in her hut because one of the female soldiers isn’t there this weekend. One of these ad-hoc couples decided that they would take advantage of this so they followed everyone else back to the various dormitories. They worked out which one was their hut, and they went in. But there were a couple of other women in there, including one who looked after the section’s lion, which was their mascot from Ethiopia and looked after by them, so this was a strange sight of a woman and a lion, another lion, another woman, a third woman and then this couple who were in this other woman’s bed. At some point, I was summoned to do something with the hot water firing. I thought that this was a surprise because it’s not really my job. However, it was explained to me that the person whose job it was usually was missing. So I was called out and came down and went to fix it, and then I began to ask about the whereabouts of this other guy, and so a search began. When they opened the door of this women’s dormitory and found him there with this woman and this lion in this room, and all these other women, the service went totally berserk.<\/div>\n

This is another dream that has absolutely no connection at all with anything that has happened in the real World just recently, as far as I can tell. What on earth a woman would be doing in a dormitory with a lion is something that totally baffles me. <\/p>\n

The army dance is interesting too, but that doesn’t seem to fit in with anything either. As for me being in the army, that would be most unlikely too. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall, as I have said before … "and on many occasions too" – ed<\/em> … that if a war were to break out and conscription came into force, I would be heading for the nearest Merchant Marine office.<\/p>\n

\nThen there was a dream about a group of people who had let themselves go in their lives. The first one was a graphic artist from Italy who had settled into the UK to do some kind of graphic work, but had lost his job and was content to sit around all day on benefits rather than go out to try to find a job to better his position.<\/div>\n

As I was starting to dictate this, I was overwhelmed by the most enormous coughing fit, one of the biggest that I’ve had and which awoke me, as I mentioned earlier. When it calmed down, I found that I had forgotten everything else that I needed to know about it and so that was that.<\/p>\n

Almost immediately that I had finished transcribing the dictaphone notes, the nurse turned up. He didn’t have a lot to say for himself today and was soon gone on his travels. I could make my breakfast, cutting the bread with my new bread knife that arrived yesterday, and it isn’t ‘arf sharp. I hope that my cleaner can find some of those vegetable knives if they are as sharp as the bread knife is.<\/p>\n

While I was eating, I was reading some more of ESSAYS ON THE LATIN ORIENT<\/a> by William A Miller.<\/p>\n

Today, we’re discussing Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I can understand why there is so much fighting over the possession of these territories even today. Their history is so convoluted – at some time in the past, almost every power of any importance in the Balkans and in Italy has had possession of this area at some point. Numerous battles have been fought across the area as other powers have tried to take control. <\/p>\n

Back in here, I had a few things to do and then an e-mail to write. That actually took longer than it ought.<\/p>\n

When I’d dealt with that, I began to write the notes for another radio programme. However, the time seemed to evaporate and what should have taken about three hours at most ended up taking over five, and I’ve no idea why.<\/p>\n

My faithful cleaner turned up to interrupt me at one point. She’d brought the rest of the medication that had to be ordered. I mentioned the side effects of the medication that Emilie the Cute Consultant had prescribed, and her response was “serve you right”. It’s nice to know that you have loyal friends.<\/p>\n

Something strange happened after all of this. From going along, bright and cheerful, I suddenly became overwhelmed with fatigue and found myself slumped over the desk in one of these trances that I used to have quite regularly.<\/p>\n

In fact, had Rosemary not ‘phoned me up for a chat, I would probably still be there now. Even so, over an hour crashed out like that is some going.<\/p>\n

Rosemary and I just had a short chat today \u2014 a mere one hour and twenty-four minutes. We’re obviously losing our touch these days.<\/p>\n

After she’d hung up, I attacked one of the radio notes that i’d dictated a while back. I’d hoped to have had these all edited, the two halves of the programme prepared, the extra track chosen and the notes written , with plenty of time to spare afterwards, but what with one thing and another … "and until you make a start, you have no idea just how many other things there are" – ed<\/em> … I’d barely finished preparing the two halves.<\/p>\n

That filled me full of dismay because the time is just melting away between my fingers and I can’t stop it.<\/p>\n

Tea tonight was pasta and vegetables in a vegan cheese sauce followed by more delicious trifle. It was quite nice, except for the fact that some of the pasta ended up in the bin as I couldn’t eat it. As I have said before … "and on many occasions too" – ed<\/em> … my taste buds are definitely changing.<\/p>\n

But right now, I shall be changing, into my night clothes to go to bed, ready for dialysis tomorrow … "I don’t think" – ed<\/em> …<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about the woman and the lion … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … she was walking with the lion down Hoole Lane in Chester not so long ago.
\nA policeman stopped her and demanded "where do you think you are going with that lion?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Where do you think?"<\/em><\/strong> she asked. "I’m taking him to Chester Zoo"<\/em><\/strong>
\nA couple of days later, the same policeman stopped the same woman with the same lion in Sealand Road
\n"I thought you said that you were taking that lion to Chester Zoo?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"And so I did!"<\/em><\/strong> she retorted "but he didn’t think much of it so we’re going to watch Chester City play Scarborough Athletic."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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