{"id":21431,"date":"2026-08-16T20:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21431"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:26:03","slug":"sunday-16th-august-2026-it-has-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21431","title":{"rendered":"
Sunday 16th August 2026 – IT HAS NOT … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… been a very auspicious day today. It’s been a day full of tiredness and weariness, and I’ve crashed out I don’t know how many times as yet.<\/p>\n

It all started to go wrong last night, as I said yesterday. I was hit with an enormous wave of fatigue and ended up going to bed long before I’d finished what I needed to do. I was asleep quite quickly too.<\/p>\n

During the night, I awoke at some point, and I’ve no idea when because I didn’t look. But it was due once more to another one of these mega-coughing fits. The coughing is now back, and back in spades too, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

It was another one of these mornings where I was drifting in and out of sleep and not being able to identify which was the real bit and which one was the phantom bit or the sleep bit. That’s happened a few times now, and it’s really unsettling, especially when I’m stuck somewhere in that glorious half-world in between waking up and being asleep. <\/p>\n

One thing is certain, though, and that is at some point (maybe the fourth or fifth attempt) I did manage to go to sleep because I awoke properly and correctly. I stayed awake and eventually looked at the time. It was 07:33. <\/p>\n

Sunday is, of course, my Day of Rest which usually starts with no alarm and a lie-in, having my feet and legs dealt with by the nurses while I’m still in bed. However, today, I simply couldn’t stay lying in bed. By 08:00 I was up and about, sitting at the computer working.<\/p>\n

The nurse was surprised to see me up, which was no surprise really. After his three-week holiday he would probably be expecting to find me in bed. We had a little chat about his holiday, but he wasn’t very forthcoming. He dealt with my legs and feet and then cleared off on his round.<\/p>\n

After he left, I made my croissants. I’d used the last of the previous batch last week, so I wanted some more. And while they were a-doing in the oven, I made my porridge and coffee.<\/p>\n

The croissants were excellent \u2013 the best that I have ever made. They looked wonderful and had puffed up correctly, which made a nice change from the flat ones that I always seemed to have.<\/p>\n

While I was eating, I was reading some more of A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE<\/a> by Charles Freeman.<\/p>\n

He’s continuing to keep himself out of mischief, although his jingoistic beating of the English drum is becoming rather tiresome. And he’s still hung up on the religious side of the fence. I don’t believe that in four hundred pages so far, there’s been one mention of an English secular building.<\/p>\n

And “English” too. He’s not mentioned one building in Wales or Scotland either to date.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I had a few things to do, such as to finish off transcribing the dictaphone notes. And they weren’t much use tonight.<\/p>\n

\nI dreamed that I was doing something with this dinosaur exhibition. We were planning to move away from Granville at the end of their period and relocate somewhere else. They had a huge list of places to where they could relocate, and they asked me if I would check out one or two of them in Northern France. This was another one of these long, complicated dreams and it seems to have all evaporated from my mind<\/div>\n

This relates to a discussion that we were having with Madame Dinosaur in the taxi on our way to Avranches yesterday about the potential sites that they have all over Europe for their exhibition and the difficulty at times of finding a dialysis centre, especially abroad.<\/p>\n

There were a few other things to do, and then I continued writing the notes from yesterday. That took much longer than it ought to have done too, mainly because of the waves of fatigue that were sweeping over me again. At one point, I went to fetch an energy drink, but even drinking that didn’t make things any easier.<\/p>\n

When I’d finished it and posted it on line, I started to enjoy my footfest. The first match was Stranraer v Spartans in the fourth tier of Scottish football. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I have a soft spot for Stranraer FC ever since I caught a game of theirs in the late 1970s when I saw the floodlights on in the ground when I was on a ferry coming back from Larne in Northern Ireland and managed to watch the game.<\/p>\n

This was an entertaining game, one that Spartans should have won. But they missed \u2013 I don’t know how many sitters they missed \u2013 and Stranraer made the most of one of the few chances that came their way, winning 1-0.<\/p>\n

The next game was the end of the Cambian United v Y Fflint game that I’d part-watched yesterday. This was a very equal match that Y Fflint didn’t deserve to lose, but when the side from the Rhondda Valley won a penalty in the eighty-fifth minute, then that was that.<\/p>\n

After that, it was the turn of Llandudno v Trefynnon. Llandudno, a newly-promoted team this season, were leading the league, mainly because they’d played a couple of teams that were not expected to figure highly in the League’s championship order, and Holywell were one of the newly-promoted teams that were having a wretched time of it right now.<\/p>\n

This was one of those games where, again, not much skill was involved. But it was played at a hundred miles per hour from one end to the other, and I was totally exhausted just watching it. Llandudno opened the scoring, and Trefynnon equalised, but as it was coming up to half-time, Trefynnon had a player sent off.<\/p>\n

They held out until almost the final whistle, conceding two goals in quick succession, but a 3-1 victory was rather flattering to Llandudno, even if one of the goals was scored by this site’s hero, veteran striker Mark Cadwallader.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of other things to do later, but I didn’t feel much like doing them. Not even making bread. I’ll pull half a frozen loaf out of the freezer when I need it. Instead, I did some things that I enjoy doing, which is nice for once.<\/p>\n

There was no tea tonight either. I had half a dozen biscuits and the last of those pineapple chunks with a citron sorbet. And how nice was that?<\/p>\n

So now that I’ve written my notes, I’m off to bed, hoping for a decent sleep for once and that the decision to deprive myself of two means, tonight and last night, goes towards doing something about this weight.<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about dinosaurs … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … we were outside the exposition when a dinosaur wearing a crown came out.
\n"Come and visit our prectacle"<\/em><\/strong> it said. "It’s wonderful, magnificent, brilliant, superb, excellent, exciting …"<\/em><\/strong>
\nAs Madame Dinosaur was stading next to us, I turned to her and asked "What kind of dinosaur is that?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"That? It’s a Thesaurus rex"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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