{"id":10091,"date":"2018-01-13T22:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T22:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10091"},"modified":"2018-01-13T22:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T22:10:36","slug":"saturday-13th-january-2018-isnt-it-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10091","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 13th January 2018 – ISN’T IT NICE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NEW<\/a>… to be able to watch the football on the big screen?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the laptop with the broken screen didn’t work – it’s quite an old laptop of course and the software in it won’t run the video plug-in for the browser. <\/p>\n

But the laptop that I’ve been using as a media centre up until recently did the business, that’s for sure, and I was able to watch the first half of Cefn Druids v Llandudno in perfect comfort.
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Unfortunately it wasn’t such a perfectly comfortable night? I was awake in the middle of the night and took a while to go back to sleep again. But I was dead to the world when the alarm went off and it was a struggle to leave the bed. How I’m looking forward to a nice lie-in tomorrow!<\/p>\n

After breakfast I had a shower, a good clean-up and change of clothes, and then off to the shops, where I spent another pile of money.<\/p>\n

LIDL had some hand towels of the type that I bought the other day so a pack of three disappeared into Caliburn, as did a battery charger. All of mine are back at the farm and in any case are over 30 years old. A little hi-tech modern one will do much better when I might need it.<\/p>\n

At Mr Bricolage I bought a knob for my saucepan lid – the one on which I broke the handle the other day, and NOZ came up with the usual stuff.<\/p>\n

Centrakor provided a new washing-up bolw of the correct size (so my wok and my pizza platter will fit into it), a few other bits and pieces and a box with a tight-fitting lid – just the thing in which to keep my socks and undies.<\/p>\n

At LeClerc I went to look at the HDMI cables because the one-metre cable that I have isn’t really long enough for what I need. And with -metre ones on offer at just \u20ac9:99, that’s long enough for just about everything.<\/p>\n

LeClerc was also having a sale on suitcases. And a small cabin-sized one on wheels at just \u20ac15:99 – just the thing for my trips to Leuven – also ended up in the back of Caliburn.<\/p>\n

And I’m glad that I had bought that TV last weel, because there wasn’t a cheap one anywhere to be seen in the shop.<\/p>\n

After fuelling up, I came back home, made myself some soup and then … errr … had a little rest for half an hour. And then cracked on with organising the shopping and sorting out another pile of papers. There’s actually some room in the drawers here now, and isn’t that astonishing?<\/p>\n

At the end of the football I had to leave.<\/p>\n

\"football<\/a>Caliburn and I went off to C\u00e9rences where we were the other week.<\/p>\n

It’s the nearest Saturday night match and the home side were playing the Mouettes of Donville.<\/p>\n

The first half was all one-way traffic towards the Donville goal. But the Donville keeper put in a performance that neither he nor I will ever forget, including a magnificent “Banks” reverse save. It was the performance of a lifetime and I don’t think that I’ve seen better.<\/p>\n

At the start of the second half Donville made two substitutions and the two players that came on, playing down the left, changed the balance of the game and we had a much more even contest.<\/p>\n

However it didn’t last. The new left winger had clearly unsettled the defenders and after about 25 minutes he was on the receiving end of a bad challenge and limped off the field. We then went back to the one-sided match that we had in the first half.<\/p>\n

The Donville keeper was finally beaten with just 10 minutes to go – a long-range shot that dipped and curled out of his reach and in underneath the angle of the post and crossbar – but he still made a couple more top-class saves to make the result look a lot closer than it deserved.<\/p>\n

But there was a lot of naughty stuff going on in this game about which the referee didn’t seem at all concerned. One C\u00e9rences player made two tackles in as many minutes, either of which merited a red card in my opinion but nothing was given. And so a minute or two later a Donville player exacted his own retribution by giving him a kick that would have felled an ox. No card for that either.<\/p>\n

And that’s just a couple of examples. There were many more.
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So, frozen to the marrow, I drove back here and now I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n

A nice lie-in, I hope. I deserve it.<\/p>\n

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