{"id":21077,"date":"2026-04-28T19:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21077"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:29:50","slug":"friday-28th-april-2026-right-now-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21077","title":{"rendered":"
Friday 28th April 2026 – RIGHT NOW, IT’S … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… just about 20:08 and I’ve just awoken after crashing out on my chair for a little over half an hour. Not that it’s a surprise, because I’ve worked really hard today, even if I didn’t feel in the least like it. And that’s no surprise either, after the night that I had last night.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I started to write my notes quite quickly and managed to keep on going relentlessly for quite a while. It was a few minutes after 21:00 when I had finished what needed to be finished, and I reckon that by 21:15, I was under the covers in the comparative comfort and warmth of my bed.<\/p>\n

It took, as usual, a few minutes to doze off, but unfortunately not for long. I had a dream at about 23:00, according to the timestamp of the recording, and I awoke not long afterwards with another dramatic fit of coughing. <\/p>\n

And there I lay yet again, watching the room go round and round until I felt the need to leave the bed to go to walk the parapet. At that point, I checked the time. It was 06:04 \u2013 25 minutes before the alarm. <\/p>\n

Back in here, I sat on the edge of the bed until the alarm sounded, and then it took me about ten minutes to summon up the courage to go to the bathroom for a good wash, etc. <\/p>\n

In the kitchen, I made my hot lemon, ginger and honey drink to wash down my medication and then came back in here to find out where I’d been during the night.<\/p>\n

\nDuring the night, I ordered an album online and it finally turned up. At first, it didn’t sound right at all, but then when I took a close look at it, I found that the tracks that I was hoping to hear were originally written by another group and recorded by them. These were the ones that were on this album instead of hearing the ones that I knew, which were on a different one. Consequently, I stayed to listen to them before I made up my mind whether I would accept this album because of its strangeness and its rarity value<\/div>\n

What album would this be? I can think of many albums with songs by artists or groups that have been recorded by others and gone on to become much more famous. Eric Clapton reinterpreted probably half a dozen songs by JJ Cale, such as “Cocaine” and “After Midnight”, and Colosseum’s live version of ROPE LADDER TO THE MOON<\/a> is much better than any way Jack Bruce used to play it. <\/p>\n

\nThere was a lot going on with Hawkwind too, but it was after I’d awoken so I can’t make up my mind whether it was a dream or a daydream. It involved three Hawkwind songs, biographies of two Hawkwind members who had very unhappy lives, and a girl aged about ten or eleven sitting in an office colouring a book, obviously on a school break with nowhere to go except to daddy’s work. But when discussing the third song, I awoke bolt-upright (something that I haven’t done for several weeks) so I must have been asleep at that point.<\/div>\n

There’s always a place for Hawkwind on my playlist, whether awake or asleep, but I wonder what the rest of the dream has to do with it.<\/p>\n

Isabelle the Nurse blew in as usual, full of joie de vivre<\/em> after her week’s break. She asked me about how things went, so I told her about Friday and how much I hated it. And in her joyful manner, but with a glint in her eys that was far from joyful, she gave me a lecture about how important it is to follow medical recommendations. Much as I like her, I wouldn’t like to be one of her children.<\/p>\n

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

Today, we’ve been discussing the household and the finds that have occurred at various places all over the country. It all points to an easy, comfortable life but I bet that in all honesty, the lower classes had nothing like any of these artefacts and their life was a constant struggle.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I had a few things to do and then I had to revise for my Welsh. The lesson passed really well, which is nice. I need to keep on with all of this revision because it is making things better. And as an aside, my homework was described as “a masterpiece”. Seriously.<\/p>\n

At the half-time break, I put the washing machine on with a pile of clothes for washing, seeing as I’m beginning to run out here. I didn’t bring many clothes with me from the farm.<\/p>\n

After the lesson, I sorted out the bathroom and then my cleaner came along to shoo me under the shower. I didn’t feel in the least like it, but I persevered, and it really was a weary me who steered himself back in here afterwards.<\/p>\n

While I’d been in the shower, my cleaner had changed the bedding, so this nice, clean me … "well, clean anyway" – ed<\/em> … will have a nice clean bed in which to sleep tonight. <\/p>\n

Once I’d summoned up the energy, which was not easy, I had the radio programme notes to write. And by the time that I knocked off, they had all been written, all ten of them. No wonder I crashed out afterwards \u2013 that was no mean feat, especially when I’m feeling as shattered as I am.<\/p>\n

So right now, I’m off to bed and to sleep, if my coughing fits will let me. No food yet again, although I’m starting to see visions of cheese sandwiches. That means that there’s an appetite still lurking around somewhere. <\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about Hawkwind … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … Nerina once took me to a Hawkwind concert at Keele University for my birthday.
\nWhen the group came onto the stage, she dashed to the front, like most kids do (she was several years younger than me).
\nAfter a while, she came to find me at the back of the room. "Why don’t you come down to the front? The view’s so much better there"<\/em><\/strong> she said.
\n"That’s as maybe"<\/em><\/strong> I replied "but the smell is so much better at the back, hey, man."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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