{"id":5596,"date":"2016-04-25T19:41:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2016-04-25T19:41:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:41:42","slug":"monday-25th-april2016-now-thats-more-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5596","title":{"rendered":"Monday 25th April2016 – NOW THAT’S MORE LIKE IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in bed at a reasonable time last night, watching a Bulldog Drummond film, when I fell asleep after about 10 minutes or so. <\/p>\n

And that was my lot until about 06:30. I slept right through everything and didn’t feel a thing. <\/p>\n

Even better, after I’d been for a stroll down the corridor, I went straight back to sleep and that was that until the alarm went off at 08:00. Totally painless, I have to say and I felt so much better after that. <\/p>\n

The coffee at breakfast was the best yet and so even though it’s not a Sunday I treated myself to a second mug and took it back to my room. It went down a treat while I was having a play around on the laptop.<\/p>\n

I managed to go out to buy my lunch but it was touch and go because we had a rainstorm at lunchtime. It just held off long enough for me to nip out and back – and I forgot to buy any pudding. I fancied one of these sliced spicy cakes the same that I bought at the hospital the other day. But there you go, I suppose. I’ll have to remember for tomorrow. I wonder what it would be like with some vanilla-flavoured soya dessert.<\/p>\n

Tonight, though, I wasn’t so lucky and I was caught in a rainstorm. It’s not the first time that it’s rained while I’ve been here, but it’s the first time that I’ve been caught in it. With having no cash handy, I had to go to the bank and on the way back I stopped at the fritkot<\/em> for a veggieburger and chips. And although it was totally delicious, I didn’t realise that they put tomato sauce on the burger and I hate that. But I’ll remember that, and tell them next time that I go there, because there will indeed be a next time. I certainly had my money’s worth at \u20ac5:00.<\/p>\n

And so tomorrow, I’m starting house-hunting. I need to find a place to live and to find one quickly. The girl at the Social Services seems to have run aground in her efforts and my communications with her today have been a bit, well, difficult.<\/p>\n

It looks like I’m on my own.<\/p>\n

But I’m not in a very good humour today. In fact, I’m feeling a little depressed. As I started typing this, it was four years to the very minute that I was landing at Montreal airport<\/a> on my way to an icebreaker out in the Gulf of St Lawrence<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What has depressed me is that it’s usually about now that I’m planning my autumn adventures in Canada. But God knows when I’m going to get there again. <\/p>\n

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