{"id":10319,"date":"2018-03-19T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2018-03-19T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:51:56","slug":"monday-19th-march-2018-one-swift-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10319","title":{"rendered":"Monday 19th March 2018 &#8211; ONE SWIFT GLANCE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; out of the window told me all that I needed to know this morning &#8211; and another glance at the thermometer confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>It was snowing slightly outside and the temperature was 0.5\u00b0C. Another swift glance in the fridge told me that I wasn&#8217;t going to starve to death and so I put my planned shopping trip &#8230; errr &#8230; on ice.<\/p>\n<p>And quite right too because I wasn&#8217;t feeling much like it either. I&#8217;d had a bad night again &#8211; although not as bad as the previous &#8211; and wasn&#8217;t in the mood for a Great Trek today. And I didn&#8217;t fancy a shower in the Arctic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>As a result I did some more 3D stuff &#8211; for yet another site that I have found &#8211; and then attacked the mountain of photographs that has been building up. I&#8217;ve been revising these pages working backwards and added some of the missing photographs, and I&#8217;ll be going farther and farther back as time, energy and inclination permits.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch was the last of the lettuce and I&#8217;ve run out of salad dressing too. But somewhere about it a recipe for vegan mayonnaise and I know that I have everything to make it, so tomorrow morning might be a kitchen day. High time that I did some of this haute cuisine. <\/p>\n<p>The walk this afternoon was absolutely taters. Never mind the First Day of Spring just around the corner, it&#8217;s like Christina Rosetti and &#8220;In The Bleak Midwinter&#8221; outside. And surprisingly, there were several other people suffering in silence as we trudged round.<\/p>\n<p>The bass guitar came out this afternoon but I couldn&#8217;t remember the numbers that I&#8217;d been rehearsing. How sad is that? It reminds me of that Irish folk group whom I saw a while ago &#8211; &#8220;we only know two numbers. One of them is &#8216;Dirty Old Town&#8217; and the other one isn&#8217;t&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was mixed vegetables in the new steamer and vegan sausage, with cheese sauce. And delicious it was too, although there was no pudding. I had to make do with biscuits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803066.jpg\" alt=\"casino place marechal foch granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>I was the only one out for a walk this evening, although I wasn&#8217;t alone as I took the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00267S7TQ?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=erichall-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00267S7TQ\" target=\"_blank\">old Nikon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=erichall-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00267S7TQ\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> with me. <\/p>\n<p>And the quality isn&#8217;t very good in the dark, and so I&#8217;m suspecting a lens issue. I had a look on the internet to see if I could find a cheap lens to practise with but there&#8217;s nothing suitable at a price that I can reasonably afford.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that&#8217;s within my budget is the same lens that I have back on the farm, and it&#8217;s pretty pointless to buy another one of those.<\/p>\n<p>And I was even less alone than that too, for my mate the long-haired black cat was there and let me give him a good stroke or two for about 10 minutes. And I would probably still be there now had that dog not come down the street, because he disappeared to safety as soon as he smelt it &#8211; which was a long time before I could see it.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>So what will tonight be like? Better, I hope. 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It was snowing slightly outside and the temperature was 0.5\u00b0C. Another swift glance in the fridge told me that I wasn&#8217;t going to starve to death and so I put my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[4788,6968,866,2560,5565,8581,867,7679,327,7891,10938,1569,10893,2487],"class_list":["post-10319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-bad-night","tag-black-cat","tag-christina-rosetti","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-in-the-bleak-midwinter","tag-nikon-d3000","tag-photo","tag-place-darmes","tag-smeet","tag-snow","tag-vegan-cheese-sauce","tag-vegan-sausages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10321,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions\/10321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}