{"id":9576,"date":"2017-08-09T07:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2017-08-09T07:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:35:41","slug":"tuesday-8th-august-2017-brain-of-britain-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9576","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 8th August 2017 – BRAIN OF BRITAIN STRIKES AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to go to the Bank this morning. And as I was running a little low on fruit and stuff I decided to make a list and go to the fruit shop in town and pick up a baguette<\/em> while I was there.<\/p>\n

So down I strolled, picked up my fruit, picked up my baguette<\/em> – and then came straight back up here having forgotten all about the bank! <\/p>\n

I’ll just have to go another time, won’t I?<\/p>\n

Bu I don’t think much of the fruit shop though. It’s quite expensive and the quality is nowhere near as good as in the Leclerc.<\/p>\n

I’m still not getting the hang of this sleeping thing though. 02:30 when I went to bed last night and awake after just 4 hours and 28 minutes of sleep, of which 3 hours and 58 minutes was restful sleep and the other 29 minutes was restless. Maths is clearly not the strongest suit of my Fitbit, is it?<\/p>\n

A minor crisis in which I have run out of muesli, but I’m not making a batch just for a couple of days. Luckily there’s a packet loitering around here from when I was living in “digs”. That’l do until I go.<\/p>\n

And talking of going, I’ve been synchronising the computers today. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I bought a new laptop in the sales in June. I still have the old one, slow that it is, because of its light weight and extraordinary battery life. That will be coming with me on my travels.<\/p>\n

Despite being the worst, slowest computer that I’ve ever owned, it’s done some sterling service and been on some incredible travels. And it will be on some more too. The synchronisation isn’t finished, but I’ll be dealing with that on Friday.<\/p>\n

Not possible to go for lunch on the wall today. Every time one sets foot outside one’s apartment one is drenched with a squall of rain.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I was on my travels again. I’d been invited for tea chez<\/em> Liz and Terry as a pre-holiday treat.<\/p>\n

Having had a shower to make myself look pretty (hence the Fitbit stats – I charge it up while I’m under the shower), I took the opportunity of <\/p>\n

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  1. going to the railway station to pick up the railway tickets for Saturday (you can’t trust these machines to work when you need them).
    \nThat was exciting because there was nowhere to park (I pinched a car hire space in the end) and also because the machine wouldn’t give me the tickets either without the bank card that I used to order them.
    \n“See the clerk in the ticket office” said the machine. And so I did. And she asked me for my bank card too.
    \nRegular readers of this rubbish will recall me being stranded in Arizona in 2002 when a bank card was “suspended due to unusual transactions – and so now I have six different cards – and so we had quite a performance trying to decide which the card that I had used.
    \nEventually we sorted it out and I went outside to be greeted by the manager of the car hire concession and we had words.<\/li>\n
  2. going to Centrakor to buy some luggage labels. All luggage has to be fully-labelled these days and my suitcase – would you believe – does not have a luggage label supplied. At that price too!
    \nSo I bought a pack of flourescent lime-green ones. They’ll stand out on a baggage carousel.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But the traffic through the town was horrendous. One of these huge mobile home things driven by a novice having difficulty in manoeuvring through the streets. And so much time at the railway station that I was stuck in the rush hour and it took ages to move through the town. <\/p>\n

    Liz had made vegan burgers, which went down nicely with chips and peas, followed by fruit salad and vegan chocolate cake (and a doggy-bag for me). Liz let me borrow her printer to print off my flight tickets too, so that’s all sorted out. <\/p>\n

    But I was struggling to keep awake all evening so I made my excuses and left. No walk this evening – it was pelting down outside so I sat down to do wome work on the laptop.<\/p>\n

    But having fallen asleep three times in the middle of a couple of keystrokes, I gave it up and went to bed. <\/p>\n

    Totally wasted. \t<\/p>\n

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