{"id":8748,"date":"2017-07-04T19:06:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2017-07-06T06:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:34:33","slug":"tuesday-4th-july-2017-i-wondered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=8748","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 4th July 2017 – I WONDERED …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… what the noise was that I could hear as I awoke this morning.<\/p>\n

After a couple of minutes, having had my curiosity aroused to fever-pitch, I staggered out of bed into the bathroom to find that I had left the bathroom tap running all night. That’s going to be expensive, isn’t it? I have to pay for the water here.<\/p>\n

That’s twice that I’ve left the tap running. And also twice that I’ve left the fridge door open. I would say that I’m slowly losing my mind, but as regular readers of this rubbish already know, that went years ago.<\/p>\n

Early to bed last night might have been one thing – early to sleep was something else completely. But once I dropped off, I was gone for good until the alarm went off.<\/p>\n

I was in Northampton during the night too – don’t ask me why because I reckon that in the whole of my life I haven’t been there half a dozen times. I was in charge of an urban rgeneration project which was so weird – I could grab the ground like you would grab the corners of a tablecloth, give it a shake, and the old Victorian buildings there would immediately disappear and a whole new 21st-Century brick and glass urban landscape would appear – to the horror of the local residents. Then I would shake it again, and they would disappear and the old Victorian stuff would reappear, to the horror of the Planning Committee. I did this a few times until the leader of the planners told me to stop messing about and be serious for once (as if that is ever likely to happen, really!).<\/p>\n

Breakfast and then a shower and shave – must look my best. and then off for the baguette<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And the guy in the magasin de presse<\/em> was having quite a whinge. His brother, who lives in South-West UK is coming over and has just been to collect his Euros. 25% less than what he received the last time he applied. I made a New Years Resolution about 5 or 6 years ago to keep politics out of this blog but sometimes I’m overwhelmed – overwhelmed by the total and utter stupidity of the people with whom I once – for a great many years – shared what is rapidly becoming an insignificant offshore island.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I’ve done is bitten the bullet and bought another copy of Paint Shop Pro. <\/p>\n

That’s been my graphics editing program for over 20 years but regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I … errr … mislaid it. I’ve hunted high and low for it for a couple of years with no luck and now that I’m here I don’t suppose that I’ll ever find it again. <\/p>\n

Anyway, to cut a long story short … "hooray" – ed<\/em> … there was a later version than mine on sale on eBay. I’d noticed a few shortcomings with the version that I had, and most of them seem to be resolved in this upgrade. <\/p>\n

But then we had a problem – with changing bank accounts, my Paypal account is out of date. Luckily Terry was on line at that moment so he did the business for me. It’ll be nice to get back to some serious photo-editing again.<\/p>\n

Lunch on the wall overlooking the harbour – and some people had pinched my comfy spec. I had to find another place to sit and that annoyed me. I was enjoying the company of the lizards there, just as the lizards doubtless enjoyed the crumbs that I dropped.<\/p>\n

As for the tea, just as nice as yesterday. <\/p>\n

The blog amending is coming along in leaps and bounds – quicker than I anticipated. Except when I run agound, that it.<\/p>\n

Today I ran aground on a page that I had written in June 2012<\/a> about Chateau-sur-Cher. All of about 120 words in haste. and then forgot it. Today I decided that I would attack it with gusto and it’s ended up as almost 1200 words. <\/p>\n

Still, if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing properly, isn’t it? I’m now in July 2012. Only a few more months to go.<\/p>\n

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