{"id":21071,"date":"2026-04-26T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21071"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:20:48","slug":"sunday-26th-april-2026-i-am-obviously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21071","title":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #f4c430;\"> Sunday 26th April 2026 &#8211; I AM OBVIOUSLY &#8230; <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; feeling a little better, because as I begin to write these notes, it&#8217;s 20:20 And I haven&#8217;t gone to bed yet.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, after all of the sleep that I had yesterday, it&#8217;s hardly a surprise. As I said yesterday, I was totally wasted by about 18:30, and it wasn&#8217;t many minutes after that that I was underneath the covers.<\/p>\n<p>It took a few minutes for me to go to sleep, and there I stayed until I don&#8217;t know what time, when I awoke. It was still totally dark outside but the electric water heater was on, so it must have been some time between midnight and 05:00, and my money is on earlier rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>So for a few hours, I lay there, coughing my head off, and then I must have gone back to sleep because the next thing that I knew, there was bright sunlight streaming in around the edges of the shutters.<\/p>\n<p>When the nurse arrived, I pretended to be asleep, but once he&#8217;d gone, feeling wide awake, I sat on the edge of the bed waiting for the bedroom to come to a halt. And I&#8217;ll tell you something for nothing, and that is that it took me seventy-five minutes from first sitting on the edge of the bed to going into the kitchen. That&#8217;s what kind of state I was in this morning.<\/p>\n<p>For my medication, I took a mouthful or two of orange juice again and then made breakfast \u2013 the last two of my home-made croissants. I shall have to make some more now &#8211; after all, they do taste nice with porridge and strong black coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Back in here, I had a few things to do, but believe it or not, I forgot to check the dictaphone. Consequently, you&#8217;ll need to check back tomorrow to find out if I went anywhere last night.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the first job was to write out yesterday&#8217;s notes, which are now online, following which I attacked some more of my Welsh homework. There&#8217;s not much now left to finish tomorrow morning before I need to send it off.<\/p>\n<p>We then had a little footfest.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, we had Ross County v Greenock Morton, and I do have to say that I have never seen such a shambles. Bottom-of-the-League Ross County made short work of thrashing Morton 4-0, and it was well-deserved too. Morton were totally dreadful.<\/p>\n<p>Following that, we had Stranraer at home to Stirling Albion. This game finished 1-1 but Stranraer should have been down the road and out of sight a long time before the final whistle, given the number of clear-cut chances that they created. <\/p>\n<p>And then, I had a little wobble for a while. Not exactly crashing out, but one of those situations that I have every now and again when I can&#8217;t seem to move a muscle. And that was how I stayed for over forty-five minutes before I was able to go into the kitchen for a disgusting drink.<\/p>\n<p>The day was finished off with the second of the two European play-off semis. And in a change from yesterday&#8217;s poor game, we had two teams going at it hammer and tongs, playing as if they actually wanted to win it.   <\/p>\n<p>Y Barri took the lead early in the game from another one of these &#8220;let&#8217;s play it out from the back, boys&#8221; calamities that we see so often in modern football, and Hwlffordd equalised with about fifteen minutes to go.<\/p>\n<p>So, once more, we had a penalty shoot-out, and as far as Y Barri goes, a well-known phrase involving a stringed musical instrument and the nether regions of a ruminant animal springs to mind. So next week, it&#8217;s Penybont at home to Hwlffordd. <\/p>\n<p>But it should have been a totally different story had the referee awarded to Y Barri the two penalties that everyone else in the ground except him and a linesman would have awarded them. <\/p>\n<p>So right now, I&#8217;m off to bed, ready to fight the good fight again next week and see where we end up. I need to pull myself round and crack on with something. I can&#8217;t continue like this. <\/p>\n<p>But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about waking up &#8230; <em>&#34;well, one of us has&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; one of my friends once told me that he had one of those things that used to make a screeching noise when it was time to wake up, and made you a cup of tea.<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;So what happened to it?&#34;<\/em><\/strong> I asked<br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;Ohh, nothing much.&#34;<\/em><\/strong> he replied. <strong><em>&#34;I got divorced so in the end, I just bought a Teasmaid.&#34;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-21071 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='21071' data-nonce='854465853b' 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-21071 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-21071 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='21071' data-nonce='854465853b' 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-21071 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-21071 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; feeling a little better, because as I begin to write these notes, it&#8217;s 20:20 And I haven&#8217;t gone to bed yet. Mind you, after all of the sleep that I had yesterday, it&#8217;s hardly a surprise. As I said yesterday, I was totally wasted by about 18:30, and it wasn&#8217;t many minutes after that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,16250,12057],"tags":[829,1712,2560,5287,5565,8581,10797,13915,16364,1217,1731,15372,12058,2896,15977,15849,8309],"class_list":["post-21071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-n6","category-nurse","tag-barry-town","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-football","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-greenock-morton","tag-haverfordwest-county","tag-home-made-croissants","tag-jd-cymru-premier-league","tag-lie-in","tag-n6","tag-nurse","tag-ross-county","tag-stirling-albion","tag-stranraer","tag-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071","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=21071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21072,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions\/21072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}