{"id":21462,"date":"2026-08-24T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21462"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:11:02","slug":"monday-24th-august-2026-now-heres-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=21462","title":{"rendered":"
Monday 24th August 2026 – NOW HERE’S A … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… thing!<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that on three or four occasions, I’ve found myself being awoken by a phantom alarm. And on one occasion, I was even up and out of bed before I realised that it was a false alarm.<\/p>\n

But what happened this morning was far, far more bizarre than that. However, you’ll have to read on to find out what it was.<\/p>\n

Last night, although I made a determined effort, it was almost 23:30 when I finally crawled into bed, totally fed up of the day and everything like that. And surprisingly, it took me an age to go off to sleep.<\/p>\n

And now we come to the exciting bit. <\/p>\n

\nThis was another strange night when at about 01:35, I awoke to find myself sitting on the edge of the bed, thinking that the alarm had gone off. I had to convince myself to go back to bed when I found out that it hadn’t.<\/div>\n

But what was interesting about this is that usually, when there’s a phantom alarm going off, I really do “hear” it in my sleep, even though it doesn’t ring. Last night, though, I heard nothing and awoke spontaneously, and there I was, already sitting on the edge of the bed. It was completely bizarre.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I went back to bed, and as far as I know, although you can never be sure, the way things are today, I didn’t wake up again until the alarm rang.<\/p>\n

When the alarm went off, we had the usual dithering while I tried to find some enthusiasm from somewhere, but eventually I managed to find my way into the bathroom for a really good wash and shave in the unlikely event that I see Emilie the Cute Consultant this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I listened to what else was on the dictaphone from last night. <\/p>\n

\nI was back wandering around London yet again last night, only this time London turned out to be Crewe. I was roaming all around the shops in the shopping centre and this precinct that they’ve built to replace the old Queensway lot. I was just looking around from shop to shop and was thinking of going over to look at the ASDA and Co-op supermarkets, but somehow I found myself in the hospital. So I went into hospital, right to the top, and wandered around a few wards, then gradually worked my way down. I was still quite high up when I came across the caf\u00e9 there. I went in to join the queue in the caf\u00e9 and asked them if they could make me a baguette with cheese and tomato but no butter. She went to find all the ingredients, and I ended up with two half-baguettes. She put a load of crudit\u00e9s on them and things like that on them, on the grounds that quite a lot of people hadn’t had their crudit\u00e9s this morning, so there were plenty left over, and because I’d enjoyed her cooking, I could have several of them, which I thought was quite nice of her. I ended up sitting in the Oxford College Students’ Union having my lunch and trying to write up a few notes.<\/div>\n

So, back in London yet again. How many times is this? And quite recently we’ve been in a high building just like this hospital building, only then it was a university dormitory.<\/p>\n

However, in this dream, Crewe town centre was magnificent, all glass and black metal framing. And the tower block where British Home Stores used to be was raised on a central pole above a two-storey row of shops on the corner and looked from the outside like one black metal inverted rectangle framework with rounded corners, with a huge single glass window. The glass was frosted so you couldn’t see in from the outside, but it looked wonderful. <\/p>\n

The nurse turned up early, and he talked about the “race of the caf\u00e9 waiters” yesterday in the town as he dealt with my feet and legs. The race, so he told me, is for waiters from the caf\u00e9s in the town who have to run round a course in the town centre while carrying a tray with a bottle and some glasses on it. It’s hilarious, so I was told.<\/p>\n

After he left, I made my breakfast, and while I was eating, I was reading some more of A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE<\/a> by Charles Freeman.<\/p>\n

He’s keeping out of controversy again today, but still banging the jingoistic drum as loud as he can at every possible opportunity.<\/p>\n

Back in here, there were things to do, and then when they were finished, I reviewed the next radio programme and sent it off for inclusion in the stream for Friday.<\/p>\n

And then we had the real work.<\/p>\n


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