… day today – but not that I would know very much about it because I’ve had one of those days when I’ve not even set toe – never mind foot – outside the apartment.<\/p>\n
Last night was another difficult night and just by way of a change – ho hum – I was awake quite early. But there was no danger of me ever leaving my stinking pit at any silly hour. I loitered within bed until the alarm went off and crawled out of bed.<\/p>\n
There have been a couple of setbacks here today. Last night just as I was going to bed, the electricity went off with quite a loud click. The only way to start it up again was to unplug everything.<\/p>\n
So this morning I went through a process of elimination – plugging everything back in and switching it on until the main fuse went again. Many years ago I had an expensive coffee percolator and when I left Belgium in 2006 I gave it to Marianne. When I emptied her apartment in 2013 I recovered it and it’s been hanging around in the Auvergne since then, just having a very occasional airing when the weather was good enough to run it.<\/p>\n
So yesterday was the first time that I had used it, and sure enough, it’s another one of these items that all these years of storage hasn’t done much good.<\/p>\n
And that’s not the only thing either. I’ve been telling you about the broken laptop and how I’m running it here with an external screen – something else that I recovered from Marianne’s. The power surge and the blown fuse have done something to that too and it’s not firing up now. It took me quite a while to work on that before I gave it up as a hopeless task. ++–<\/p>\n
Apart from that, I’ve dealt with a pile of correspondence today. Changes of address, changes of bank account, all that kind of thing. That’s kept me out of mischief for quite a while. In fact I was late for lunch and late for tea too, and it’s still nothing like finished.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’m having a day out. Caliburn is going for his annual service and that’s quite a hike away right across on the other side of town. There’s a bus back, but I’m going to have a go to see if I can walk back. It might take my quite a while, but I’ll see how I get on. There are plenty of caf\u00e9s on the way back anyway.<\/p>\n
So that calls for an early night. I need to be on top form tomorrow.<\/p>\n
