{"id":21370,"date":"2026-07-30T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21370"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:45:36","slug":"wednesday-29th-july-2026-when-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21370","title":{"rendered":"
Wednesday 29th July 2026 – WHEN THE ALARM … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… went off this morning, I was already sitting at my desk. And I had been since 05:50.<\/p>\n

It’s not very often that that happens, especially these days, seeing how tired I am, so it’s nice to see it once in a while<\/p>\n

Anyway, last night I was in bed by about 23:00 and settled down for a good sleep. But not for long, though. I’ve no idea what time it was when I awoke because I couldn’t be bothered to look. But the car park light was still on so it must have been before 02:30.<\/p>\n

So I lay there for quite a while, tossing and turning, slowly watching the day dawn through the gaps around the edges of the shutters. In the end, I decided that I was never ever going back to sleep so I left the bed. At that point, it was 05:35<\/p>\n

Back in here afterwards, it was 05:50 when the computer fired up, and the first thing that I noticed was that there was nothing on the dictaphone. That was really sad, but if you don’t have much sleep, you don’t have much time to travel anywhere. <\/p>\n

Never mind. There are always plenty of other things to be doing, and by the time that the alarm went off, I’d dictated the notes for another couple of radio programmes which I downloaded to my computer, ready to add to all of the others that need editing.<\/p>\n

But one thing that I am noticing is that there seems to me to be a general lack of interest and co-operation in all of this \u2013 a far cry from when we started this radio station seven years ago.<\/p>\n

I managed to sort myself out somehow, though, and then I waited for Isabelle the Nurse to turn up. <\/p>\n

We had an interesting chat about not very much as she attended to my feet and legs. And then, after she had left, I could make my breakfast and read some more of A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE<\/a> by Charles Freeman<\/p>\n

We’re still discussing Gothic architecture … "and I’ve a feeling that we still will be in several weeks’ time too" – ed<\/em> … and he’s still running down the religions and architecture of the Muslims and a few other places besides, as if he doesn’t know of any better.<\/p>\n

Later on, back in here, I had a few things to do, and then once they were out of the way, I spent the rest of the day tracing the music that I need for the next radio programme. <\/p>\n

It will feature ten artists, this programme, and to my surprise, I didn’t have any music by any of them. Mind you, they are all rather obscure artists who rarely ever made it into the mainstream. Consequently, I had to spend all morning, and some of the afternoon besides, downloading all this music<\/p>\n

And downloading it was the least of my problems. Once I’d installed it all on my hard drive, then I had to reformat it all so that it would play on the radio company’s equipment. And that wasn’t the work of five minutes either. It wasn’t until teatime that it was all finished.<\/p>\n

Mind you, we did have a few interruptions. There was a pause for a disgusting drink at midday, and then Rosemary telephoned me again for a chat. Just like yesterday, it was a short chat today \u2013 a mere fifty-five minutes, that’s all, the same amount of time as yesterday. We are definitely losing our touch these days.<\/p>\n

So, when everything was finished as far as I could go, I went to make my tea.<\/p>\n

When I was tidying out the freezer the other day, I came across a portion of frozen chick pea curry that looked as if it had been in there for a hundred years. Things can’t stay in there for too long so I decided to polish it off. I was hoping to be able to eat the last slice of vegan pie, but that will have to wait for another time<\/p>\n

The curry, with rice and veg, was as delicious as I expected it to be. When I was making these curries, I was at the zenith of my cooking powers. These days, with ill health and all of that, I’m quite out of practice. But now that supplies are running down, I’ll have to go back somehow into my previous days at home on the (kitchen) range when I used to make meals in bulk and freeze them in individual proportions. It’s been months since I last did anything like that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back at the ran … errr … office in my bedroom, once I’d finished tea, washed up and had my two slices of delicious fruit bread, I came back in here to do a couple of things and then to write my notes. And it was wonderful, with the heat of the sun streaming straight through the open window onto my comfortable chair. Even with the fan going and the window open, I was roasting.<\/p>\n

However, when I was about halfway through, the usual wave of fatigue washed over me and that was that. I posted what I had written to date and then cleared off to bed before I fell asleep again in the chair<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about radio stations … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … one day, someone phoned up the local radio station during a request show.
\nHe said "I want to let you know that I’ve found a wallet for a guy named Peter Smith. In it, there are two thousand dollars in notes, two of his bank cards, two credit cards, his driving licence and his identity card"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"That’s very kind of you, sir"<\/em><\/strong> said the presenter. "We’ll put a call out to him."<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Oh, don’t do that, whatever you do!"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Why not? What do you want me to do then?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"All I want you to do is to play a sad song for Peter. Okay,"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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