{"id":10150,"date":"2018-02-02T21:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2018-02-02T21:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:02:32","slug":"friday-2nd-february-2018-in-news-which-will-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10150","title":{"rendered":"Friday 2nd February 2018 &#8211; IN NEWS WHICH WILL SURPRISE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; everyone who reads the rubbish that I write, I have spent a good part of the afternoon cleaning the bathroom from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p>And I have to be honest and say that it wasn&#8217;t a case of the bathroom not needing it either. I seem to have been somewhat remiss of late. <\/p>\n<p>It now makes the rest of the apartment look rather dubious and so I have resolved that when I don&#8217;t have any other fish to fry, like going to the shops or to football matches, I shall attack the apartment corner by corner.<\/p>\n<p>As Nietzsche once famously said, &#8220;out of chaos comes order&#8221; &#8211; but Nietzsche had never ever visited anywhere where I might have been living. <\/p>\n<p>Sleep was better last night and I almost (but not quite) beat the second alarm. I was poised on the point of putting my foot to the ground when it went off.<\/p>\n<p>And after the usual daily start and a little relax, I attacked the European Photo Mountain &#8211; and freed up another 10GB of space on the external hard drive, with plenty more to go. But it&#8217;s going to take for ever to do, I reckon. <\/p>\n<p>While I was ferreting around in the freezer I came across another part-loaf of bread from the days when I was feeling well. So I liberated it and treated myself to cheese on toast for lunch. It&#8217;s difficult to eat because of my mouth problems, but I managed it, taking my time. And nice it was too. I&#8217;ll have to pick up some more cheese from Leuven when I go back there. <\/p>\n<p>But that set me on to tidying up the freezer a little and finding a pack of frozen mixed vegetables about which I had completely forgotten. Next time that I make a curry, instead of using tins I&#8217;ll add this stuff in and use it up. Then I&#8217;ll have room for more oven chips. Not had them for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And I had a quick go around the fridge too. More stuff that I had bought when I was well that had now time-expired. And all of that went into the bin too.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I arranged the bathroom as I said, and while the floor was drying I went for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1802\/1802006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1802\/1802006.jpg\" alt=\"beach pointe du roc granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>It was quite windy but very bright out there this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>And the tide was right out too. And so we had some unusual activity on the beach, with this person out here going for a walk and, I thought, maybe a paddle too.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the weather for it if you ask me, but then some people do have some weird ideas about what constitutes amusement and entertainment.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1802\/1802007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1802\/1802007.jpg\" alt=\"granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>But then I changed my mind about that person, because as I walked farther around the headland, I discovered that they were not alone. <\/p>\n<p>There were at least three other people here on the beach, and they were carrying some kind of tools. So perhaps it&#8217;s mussels season or something like that and they were searching in the tidal pools.<\/p>\n<p>But then, what do I know about shellfish?<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>Back here, I made myself a coffee, sat down quietly &#8211; and went to sleep. You&#8217;d be surprised about how much a little thing like tidying the bathroom takes it out of me. I know that I&#8217;m not well and unfortunately I&#8217;m not going to get any better.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was a frozen curry that I had liberated from the freezer. and delicious it was too with rice, fresh carrots and frozen peas. I can&#8217;t wait to install a proper kitchen here &#8211; my meals will be even better when I have the correct facilities. As it is, I seem to be managing fine enough as I am.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1802\/1802008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1802\/1802008.jpg\" alt=\"place maurice marland granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>And so back out for a walk this evening. And it&#8217;s probably the first evening for quite some considerable time when it hasn&#8217;t rained. <\/p>\n<p>My route took me round the walls again and the Place Maurice Marland where we were the other day. It looks quite beautiful now that it&#8217;s all finished and the temporary fencing has been taken down.<\/p>\n<p>The photo of the floodlit trees has come out really well and I&#8217;m quite pleased with that. <br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the shops of course tomorrow; and I&#8217;ll have to find some football for tomorrow night too. The season should restart, if there are any pitches that aren&#8217;t waterlogged.<\/p>\n<p>But not much hope of that.  <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-10150 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='10150' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-10150 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-10150 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='10150' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-10150 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-10150 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; everyone who reads the rubbish that I write, I have spent a good part of the afternoon cleaning the bathroom from top to bottom. And I have to be honest and say that it wasn&#8217;t a case of the bathroom not needing it either. I seem to have been somewhat remiss of late. 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