{"id":21200,"date":"2026-06-14T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21200"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:06:32","slug":"sunday-14th-june-2026-i-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21200","title":{"rendered":"
Sunday 14th June 2026 – WHAT A DAY … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… that was today. It was easily the worst day of my life so far.<\/p>\n

The time was getting on for midnight last night when I finally crawled into bed and threw the quilt over my head. I was soon asleep as well, which was good news. Not so good was the news that at some point, I had to go for a ride on the porcelain horse, but back in bed later, I was soon asleep. <\/p>\n

It was at about 08:00 when I awoke, but that’s far too early for a Sunday. I checked the time and then threw the covers back over me.<\/p>\n

The next thing that I remember was Isabelle the Nurse pulling the quilt off my feet and legs and then going to work. She was in full chat mode this morning, but I was in no mood for any of that. I just wanted to sleep. 08:30 had no interest for me this morning.<\/p>\n

When I finally awoke, it was 10:33, and I decided that this would be the best time for me to leave the bed. Mind you, it was 11:00 when I finally made it into the kitchen. There were the croissants yesterday that needed brushing with milk and then baking.<\/p>\n

While they were baking, I was busy making my breakfast – porridge and coffee – and when the croissants were finally baked, I stuck two on my plate and then went to sit down and eat it. While I was eating my breakfast, I was reading some more of EBURACUM OR YORK UNDER THE ROMANS<\/a> by C Wellbeloved.<\/p>\n

He’s moving on now and is beginning to discuss religion in Roman York. Someone has discovered a shrine of Mithreas and so we are having an interesting discussion on Mithraeism at the moment.<\/p>\n

That leads to a brief flurry of writing to help clarify a couple of issues.<\/p>\n

Now back on my feet, I head for the bedroom and office. It’s only 12:13 and that’s a reasonable time to start work. First task is to transcribe the dictaphone notes to find out where I’d been during the night.<\/p>\n

\nSome young boy had a mini – an old-type mini – and there was something happening with the brakes to it so he hadn’t used it very much. But when I went to live on that estate where he lived, he was chatting to me about this, so I said that I’d help him achieve what he was trying to do. First thing was to strip down the mini, seeing as it was on the outside on the roads … fell asleep here<\/em> … so we went to have a look at it, and I could see that the brakes had seized on, so I jacked up the offside rear wheel, but first, before I did that, I had to undo the wheelnuts, and they were really tightly on. I had to use all of my force with a box spanner and screwdriver through the hole at the end to undo the wheel nuts and take off the wheel and then take off the hub. The hub was held on by two little grub screws. I found my screwdriver with the metal end, put it in the slot on one of the grub screws and hit it several times with the hammer. That freed it off so then I did exactly the same to the other screw, and that freed off too and came out.<\/div>\n

The number of times I’ve done that. When I lived in Gainsborough Road, a young lad asked me to look over his car, a Ford Cortina. I gave it a good looking over and fixed a few things on it, and he drove off.<\/p>\n

He came back later, absolutely delighted, saying "it passed, it passed, first attempt too. How much do I owe you?"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

"Actually, I don’t like taking money. prefer an exchange of services. What do you do for a living?"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

"I’m a landscape gardener"<\/em><\/strong> he replied.<\/p>\n

After that, I never had a better-looking garden. His car needed a lot of work and maintenance.<\/p>\n

After that, I had a lot of work to do, including dozing off regularly and being confused about where I was and what I was doing. And it was becoming worse and worse, but at 16:00, I remembered that I had to go outside for my hundred paces<\/p>\n

\"n\u00b06,<\/a>
\nHere is a shot taken from my 100 paces turn-round, depicting the building across the road from where we live. I’ve no idea what it used to be, but today, it’s apartments just like this building is.<\/p>\n

When I arrived, there were still two apartments for sale. I contacted the agents, but they never replied, so I came here as a tenant and had to wait almost seven years until my ideal apartment was put up for sale.<\/p>\n

When I finally settled in down here, I was really grateful that I’d bough here because access into and out of this apartment is quite easy
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Back in here, I began to make the pizza base but I was feeling more and more tired and more and more ill. By the time the pizza base needed its second kneading and its rolling out, I was on a different planet somewhere else in the sky. I unrolled the pizza base and rolled it out and put it on its tray. But that was that, all I was going to do.<\/p>\n

So I wrote a terse note on my blog and climbed into bed. It wasn’t even 19:00 but I didn’t care. I was going to bed, and that was all that counted.<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about going to dleep … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … some girl I know said that she always goes to sleep with the lights on.
\n"What does your boyfriend think?"<\/em><\/strong> I asked her
\n"He says it’s pretty weird, but I don’t know why. It’s just my size, and it makes a great hat!"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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