{"id":21036,"date":"2026-04-14T19:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21036"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:34:48","slug":"tuesday-14th-april-2026-i-had-nothing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21036","title":{"rendered":"
Tuesday 14th April 2026 – I HAD NOTHING ON … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… the dictaphone this morning.<\/p>\n

Mind you, that’s not a surprise, because if you don’t go to sleep, you can’t have a dream. It was a really miserable night last night, lying there with my head under the pillow trying desperately to go to sleep and not managing a single moment.<\/p>\n

The only highlight was a trip down the corridor, which seems to be happening almost every night these days. But, at least, it’s keeping my weight down, which is good news.<\/p>\n

What made matters worse was that it was an early night too. Even though making and eating my meal had taken some time, I still managed to have everything done and dusted and to be in bed just a little after 22:00, so I was hoping to have some sleep to match. However, it was not to be.<\/p>\n

When the alarm went off at 06:29, I was wide-awake already. However, as you might expect, it took me a good while to summon up the courage to leave the bed. However, I found to my surprise that when I finally made it into the kitchen after my sojourn in the bathroom, it was actually quite early.<\/p>\n

After I’d had my medication and my hot drink, I came back in here to listen to the dictaphone, and that was when I found that it was blank today. So instead, I found plenty of other things to keep me busy.<\/p>\n

Isabelle the Nurse turned up as usual, in “full chat” mode after her week off. She told me about everything that she had done, although she hadn’t made any hot cross buns, despite me giving her the recipe just after Easter. <\/p>\n

After she left, I could make breakfast and read some more of THE CELT, THE ROMAN and THE SAXON<\/a> by Thomas Wright.<\/p>\n

I really think that I’m going to have to stop criticising his hasty “speculations and conclusions” because it’s driving me berserk. His faith in “the works of Richard of Cirencester” has led to him planting fictitious towns and camps all over England, Wales and Scotland, and, as usual, making a mess of the ones that were known to historians in those days.<\/p>\n

But not only that, he tells us that "If the traveller had taken the western road from Deva, at the end of the first stage, he would have reached the town of Condate, supposed to be Kinderton in Cheshire."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Deva is, of course, Chester, and Kinderton is just a stone’s throw south of Middlewich in Cheshire, where, just on the northern edge of the town a mile or so away, a Roman fort was first identified in the mid-eighteenth century and excavated about thirty or so years ago.<\/p>\n

However, you wouldn’t be taking the western road from Deva – you’d be travelling eastwards towards Middlewich.<\/p>\n

But while I was doing some idle research into nothing in particular, I came across THIS GUY<\/a>. I know that it’s hard to stop laughing, but really we should feel sorry for people with ethnic names who have been caught out by the rapid spread of globalisation. There isn’t really anything funny about it, as we would find out if it were us.<\/p>\n

Back in here, there were more things to do and then, regrettably, I had a little doze for a while. That’s not surprising either, after a night with no sleep.<\/p>\n

When I awoke, it was a mad dash to sort myself out for my Welsh class as I was running late. And the lesson was not as successful as some have been just recently. I can’t think quickly enough these days so my conversation is rather stilted. Mind you, I can read and understand quite quickly, so I did well in that bit.<\/p>\n

At the end of my lesson, I made myself ready for my weekly shower, and when my cleaner came, she shooed me underneath it. And although I was in no mood for a shower, I did feel better afterwards.<\/p>\n

After she left, I began to look for the music for my next two radio programmes. And although I now have what I need, it all took an age to find and to reformat. I’ll start on the next radio programme tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Actually, though, I could have been ready much earlier, but once more, I fell asleep in my chair, this time for about half an hour.<\/p>\n

\nWhile I was having a doze in the late afternoon, I was with a girl and another couple. We ended up sitting at a table in a crowded bar somewhere, although I was set back somewhat from the edge. There ended up being a question about separating my girlfriend and me from the others and so I suggested pam lai lansio roced rhyngom ni?<\/em> – “why not launch a rocket between us?” But there was then some commotion going on at the bar so I turned my attention to over there, but then I awoke with yet another coughing fit.<\/div>\n

What a shame that I awoke, because I would have loved to know what else was likely to happen, what with me actually being with a girl just then.<\/p>\n

But dreaming in Welsh? That’s the effect of today’s lesson, I reckon. This course must really be getting to me and there’s still two years to go at least, and more if I want to push on into higher education.<\/p>\n

Once I’d come round into the Land of the Living, I went to make tea. A plate of pasta and vegetables, all mixed up in a vegan cheese sauce. And it was delicious. There was more on the plate than I had expected, so I decided to forego my chocolate cake and home-made ice cream.<\/p>\n

But I’m not going to forego my bed, because now that I’ve finished my notes, I’ll tidy up, finish off and go to bed.<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about showering … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … when we were on THE GOOD SHIP VE … errr … OCEAN ENDEAVOUR<\/a>, one of the passengers, whenever he was on board the ship, he carried a bar of soap with him.
\n"Why do you do that?"<\/em><\/strong> I asked.
\n"It’s in case we have a shipwreck"<\/em><\/strong> he replied.
\n"How will the bar of soap help?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Well, if the ship sinks, I can get washed ashore."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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