{"id":21416,"date":"2026-08-12T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21416"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:29:50","slug":"wednesday-12th-august-2026-we-have-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21416","title":{"rendered":"
Wednesday 12th August 2026 – WE HAVE HAD … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… a partial solar eclipse here this evening. <\/p>\n

Only a partial one, though. I reckon that the sun was about half-obscured by the moon, nothing like the total eclipse in 1999 that regular readers of this rubbish in an earlier version will recall that we went to see and photograph. <\/p>\n

For many people, this eclipse today was a mind-blowing event, but to me and presumably everyone who was with us for those couple of days, it was a disappointment compared to 1999.<\/p>\n

And seeing as we have been talking about disappointments … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … last night was something of a disappointment too. I was in bed later than I would have liked to have been, and it took a few minutes to go off to sleep while I sucked my menthol and eucalyptus sweet. And it wasn’t long before I awoke, although I have no idea of what time it was. I simply didn’t look.<\/p>\n

What awoke me was another fit of coughing, and it carried on after I awoke. But then I remembered the second menthol and eucalyptus sweet, so I put that in my mouth. At that point, I began to cough, and, would you believe, I swallowed my sweet. That was a tragedy.<\/p>\n

With nothing else better to do, I just lay there, trying my best to find a comfortable position, and that’s how I stayed until the alarm went off. It took me, as usual, a good few minutes to find the courage to stand up, but eventually I was in the bathroom sorting myself out.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I had a listen to the dictaphone to find out what had been going on during the night. <\/p>\n

\nI was with Seren and we were on the high school playing fields, and Vivienne was there. The three of us were watching a hockey game that was taking place. We noticed that one of the girls\u2014in fact, a couple of girls \u2014 was not really of the same standard as a few of the others. One of them was the left-wing attack. At half-time, the coach came over to us and asked Seren if she wanted to play for the second half. She went onto the field when they started again, and she really did make quite a difference to her side once she was on there. When they finished, we decided that we’d head for home and have something to eat.<\/div>\n

This is another one of those dreams that has a story behind it, but it’s a story that, right now, the World is not ready to hear. It’s something that is quite concurrent.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea why, but I can still see the ground even now. And it wasn’t the playing field at Buchan Grove as I expected it to be and where I once went as our school’s observer to watch our Grammar School girls’ team in a hockey tournament in 1972, but the playing fields at Shavington County Primary School where I spent six years and I didn’t even get time off for good behaviour.<\/p>\n

Isabelle the Nurse turned up as usual. She was preparing herself for an inspection of some kind of food hall somewhere, and she described some of the things that she needed to do. I decided that I’d let her get on with it, without involving me.<\/p>\n

After she left, I made my breakfast and read some more of A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE<\/a> by Charles Freeman.<\/p>\n

And here we go yet again. He tells us that "in Normandy, as we shall see presently, English ideas probably prevailed, as was but natural, to a considerable extent."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Much as I hate doing it, I shall have to remind him that in the period about which we are talking, the Norman Conquest of England was quite a recent event, and thus it would seem to me that it was the Normans who brought over the ideas to England, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n

When he’s talking about various French cathedrals, he tells us that "we cannot fail to consider them either as direct imitations of English structures or at least as the working of a common element in the Norman mind on both sides of the water."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After breakfast, I came back in here. Outside it was already twenty-four degrees, and it was pretty much that in here. I made sure that the windows in here and the living room were fully open before I started work. <\/p>\n


\nTO BE CONTINUED
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