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LIVE: Thursday 22nd October 2026 – TODAY IS THE … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… anniversary of one of the most famous dates in the histories of Granville and Paris.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> It was today in 1895 that the express train from Granville, pulled by a 2-4-0 locomotive, number 721, failed to stop in time as it pulled into the old Montparnasse railway station in Paris.<\/p>\n

The train had been running on time out of Granville but had been delayed en route<\/em>, and so the driver had been going faster than normal in an effort to make up time. When he arrived at the station, he applied the train brake, but it didn’t slow the train down quickly enough, so he applied the air brakes, but they didn’t work the first time round and there was not enough time to try again.<\/p>\n

The train crashed through the buffer stops, slid across the concourse and ploughed through a stone wall where it came to rest nose-down in the street. One of the lumps of stone that it had dislodged fell onto the head of a newspaper vendor in the street below, and the poor woman was killed instantly.<\/p>\n

The photo above that accompanied the text is a famous photograph now out of copyright, but in the past, the copyright was held by the Studio L\u00e9vy. It has been suggested that the photographer was someone called Kuhn.
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So apart from that, what other mischief have I been getting into today? <\/p>\n

Last night was another horribly late night. It was after midnight and I was still letting it all hang out. It was about 00:30 when I finally climbed into bed.<\/p>\n

And once again, I was asleep quite quickly, but once again, not for long. And today, there was a valid excuse. There was another hurricane howling around outside, and the heavy rain was being battered against my windows with a noise loud enough to awaken the Dead. No-one could sleep through that.<\/p>\n

There I was, with my head wedged tightly underneath the quilt, but it made no difference at all.<\/p>\n

From then on, I didn’t have a wink of sleep, and at one point I was thinking of raising myself from the Dead too and doing some work, but while I was debating with myself, the alarm made up my mind for me.<\/p>\n

It took another long, long time for me to find the courage and energy to raise myself to my feet, and then I shuffled off to the front door to unlock it ready for the arrival of Isabelle the Nurse.<\/p>\n

Then back across the apartment to the bathroom where I made myself pretty in case I meet Emilie the Cute Consultant this afternoon. I even remembered to have a shave too, so that I didn’t look like Captain Birdseye.<\/p>\n

With nothing on the dictaphone this morning, I had to find other things to do to entertain myself, but not for long because Isabelle the Nurse was early today. While she was sorting out my legs and feet, we were chatting about injections again. However, there was nothing new in what she said.<\/p>\n

After she left, I made my breakfast, and then I read some more of THE REPORT OF THE WOOLHOPE NATURALISTS CLUB 1867<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The retiring president, in his speech to the members, is making a few timely observations, such as "the morbid and depraved ‘sensation’-ism that has tainted and enfeebled a large class of our literature"<\/em><\/strong> and this is before the days of chick-lit, the Daily Wail and “News of the Screws”.<\/p>\n

He continues by discussing some of the works of Lord Macaulay, and the phrase that caught my eye when the author was summing up was, concerning science, "If it has not yet destroyed the scourge of war, it has so revolutionised its practice, both naval and military, that already its worst feature, that of duration, is probably abridged for ever"<\/em><\/strong>. His words were written forty-seven years before World War I and seventy-two years before World War II.<\/p>\n

As well as that, he adds that science "has facilitated intercourse"<\/em><\/strong>, and if indeed it has, I shall be looking for a science course as soon as I have pressed “send” later on!<\/p>\n

A little later on, there’s a discussion about the hillfort on one of the Herefordshire Beacons, and Edwin Lees, one of the speakers who considers himself to be an expert, in discussing the provenance of the hillfort, declares, having considered all of the evidence, that "The Princes of North and South Wales were really powerful, and made a bold defence against the advances of the Saxons until the beginning of the 10th century. To them, this camp was an important border fortress, and it was therefore by the Britons or Welsh of the Saxon period \u2013 between the years 400 and 800 \u2013 that I conceive this great castrametation to have been made and maintained."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This was quite a usual theme in the Victorian era, and we have encountered it on previous occasions. The fact is that the camp, according to modern research, was built no more recently than 200 BC.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, I came back in here to carry on with my radio programme, but at first, there were some things that needed doing. … "and until you make a start, you have no idea just how many other things there are" – ed<\/em> … Consequently, there wasn’t much time left to do a lot of work with the radio programme until the alarm rang.<\/p>\n

That was the cue for me to go and have my disgusting drink and midday medication, and then to prepare for dialysis. My faithful cleaner came down too to apply the anaesthetic on my arm.<\/p>\n

After she left, I checked the freezer to see what frozen foods needed to be ordered, and then I folded up over the dining table and waited for the taxi in an air of somnolence.<\/p>\n

The taxi was ten minutes late, and it took me a while to make it to the car due to the strong winds blowing around. But I was the only passenger today, so we weren’t all that late arriving at dialysis.<\/p>\n

As usual, I was one of the last to be plugged in, and that didn’t take place without a dispute. The liquid to be extracted was well over the maximum for three hours, so I told them to do it over four. However, the doctor (not Emilie the Cute Consultant) refused and said “three and a half hours maximum”, despite the instruction from one of the other doctors, something that I have mentioned on several occasions just recently.<\/p>\n

The advantage with having two new nurses on your ward is that they aren’t quite up to speed with the nuances of the service, so my way of thinking is that if I’m being refused permission to follow a doctor’s instruction by another doctor, there are a few other doctors’ instructions that I can choose to ignore too. So the maximum nine hundred and fifty millilitres per hour rule went into the bin too, and I persuaded the nurses to wind it up to eleven hundred per hour so that it would be done in three and a half hours.<\/p>\n

But right now, I’m going to have to wind this up for the moment, as I’ve already fallen asleep once and I’ll fall asleep a second time if I’m not careful. So I’ll go to bed and finish this off tomorrow morning after breakfast. Nighty night.<\/p>\n

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