{"id":20993,"date":"2026-03-27T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20993"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:20:03","slug":"friday-27th-march-2026-and-so-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20993","title":{"rendered":"
Friday 27th March 2026 – AND SO, AFTER … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… last night’s theatrics, I managed to survive into today.<\/p>\n

Not without problems, though. I am still having these severe coughing fits, my nose is running and I’m freezing, freezing cold. In fact, although for the past few days I’ve just been running the heating at night, it went back on on Thursday for twenty-four hours per day. And yet I’m still perishing.<\/p>\n

So after I’d finished the notes for yesterday, I managed to find the time to dictate a few radio notes, making a horrible mess of them, and I reckoned that that was nature’s way of telling me to go to bed.<\/p>\n

But not before I’d switched off the alarms and set one for 07:30. A lie-in will do me a little good, I hope.<\/p>\n

However, there was just one problem. The alarm that I’d set didn’t have a sound. Consequently, it was the vibration and the buzzing that awoke me, rather later than it might have been. I was dead to the World at that moment.<\/p>\n

As usual, it took a while to haul myself out of bed, and as I was already dressed (yes, I’d gone to bed again fully dressed) I sat at the desk and listened to the dictaphone to find out where I’d been during the night. And again, it was somewhat disappointing.<\/p>\n

\nI was in dialysis last night. There was some discussion amongst the staff about cases of food poisoning going around. I listened quite carefully because when someone began to mention a couple of the symptoms, I realised that that was actually how I was feeling and how I was suffering. However, the only thing that I have to eat or drink there is the orange juice and coffee so I don’t know where this thing about food poisoning might have come from at dialysis.<\/div>\n

That was rather prescient, I suppose, because the idea of food poisoning had gone through my mind at some point during the afternoon on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\nWhen the alarm went off, there was something going on about weddings. We’d been planning some kind of wedding for something or other and a couple of people had said that this is going to be the kind of wedding that we’ll never forget. But I didn’t manage to go very far down into this dream at all because the alarm went off and awoke me.<\/div>\n

What a shame that the alarm awoke me just as this dream was starting up. I would have loved to have known how it would have developed.<\/p>\n

The nurse turned up as usual to sort out my legs and feet. He didn’t have much to say today, especially after I’d told him that I’d gone to bed at 20:00. I suppose that he was pondering on how to deal with the situation in his capacity as a nurse, but he simply dealt with my legs and feet and left.<\/p>\n

Once he’d gone, I could deal with breakfast \u2014 the first meal that I’d had in twenty-four hours \u2014 and read some more of ESSAYS ON THE LATIN ORIENT<\/a> by William A Miller.<\/p>\n

We’ve finally finished the sorry tale of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, like just everywhere else in the Balkans, the citizens handed their country over to the Ottomans on a plate. We’re now turning our attention to Rome, which seems to be where all of the exiled Kings and Princes ended up, living at the mercy of the Pope.<\/p>\n

The list of royal personages who found refuge there is impressively long, that’s for sure, and it includes the names of some of the most powerful in the medieval Balkans. <\/p>\n

Back in here, I had plenty of things to do now that my week’s work is finished. The most important was to pay my property taxes for my place in Canada, and now that’s done. There was also the food order for Leclerc to review and send off. And as you might expect, there were several items unavailable. <\/p>\n

However, they did have a butternut squash, so my roasted butternut squash soup for Easter Saturday looks like it might be on.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I’ve been doing is to back up the files. Now that I have an 8 TB disc drive in the new office computer, I’ve been merging all of the files that were on different hard drives, and they are all now on this large one. I’ve merged in the working files too, and the next plan is to format the two external drives, split the contents of the large back-up drive into two and copy them onto the two external drives, half each, as an extra insurance back-up.<\/p>\n

My cleaner turned up as usual to do her stuff. I explained that I wasn’t well, so she sensibly left me to it and left at the end of her session.<\/p>\n

Not that I had much rest because fifteen minutes after she had gone, Leclerc turned up with the shopping. So I had all of that to put away (and it’s still not all away) and one kg of carrots to dice, blanch and freeze. And to save the water for the base of the butternut squash soup.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I drifted off on my travels for a short while and then had a look at some of the notes that I’d dictated just now. Two of them were the notes for joining tracks so I edited them both and assembled the programmes. That’s me now well ahead for self-sufficiency. <\/p>\n

Tea tonight was the curry that I was going to eat last night, a korma from out of the freezer, with rice and veg followed by vegan trifle. And I noticed that the agar-agar jelly seems to be breaking up. It’s probably not meant to be kept as long as this, so I shall have to make a smaller one next time. I hope that this one survives a little longer and doesn’t end up completely in the waste bin. That would be a tragedy.<\/p>\n

It will also be a tragedy if I don’t get a move on and go to bed while I still can. I need a good night’s sleep and this looks like the best chance of having one. <\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about weddings … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … someone once asked "why does the bride always wear white at her wedding?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"It’s to symbolise purity and chastity"<\/em><\/strong> I replied
\n"Of course it isn’t"<\/em><\/strong> retorted someone else. "If you look around, you’ll find that all kitchen appliances come in white these days."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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