{"id":1032,"date":"2009-12-08T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2017-06-28T05:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:27:56","slug":"ive-put-all-four-verticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 8th December 2009 – I’ve put all four verticals …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bedroom<\/a>… for the head of the stairs now, as you can see.<\/p>\n

I’ve also taken out one of the original uprights so that the doorway upstairs is now totally resting on my two uprights.<\/p>\n

You can see to the right of the photo a roll of this space-age insulation stuff. Tomorrow’s task is to line the stairwell with that stuff so that I can complete the head of the stairs on both levels.<\/p>\n

I had a strange phone call today.
“Congratulations, Mr Hall. You have won a major prize.”<\/span>
“Very good. You have my address. Post it to me”.<\/span>
“Well, actually, you have to come to our meeting at Evaux to collect it”<\/span>
“Not at all – you have my address. Just post it to me. I don’t understand why you are waiting.”<\/span>
“We have to verify that you are retired and in receipt of a pension. That is your case, isn’t it?”<\/span>
“That’s a bit forward of you. You don’t ask questions like that to someone you hardly know. When we’ve met each other a few times and we are about to get engaged then you can ask me these questions”<\/span>
I can keep that up all night – but it’s sad, isn’t it? I actually look forward to the junk phone calls just so I can have someone to talk to.<\/p>\n

In other news, 2 items have caught my eye today.<\/p>\n

Firstly, Al-Qaida is being blamed for a bomb attack in Baghdad<\/a>. That’s extremely exciting, for when Saddam Hussein was in power he refused to tolerate Al-Qaida and had expelled from Iraq anyone offering them any kind of support. It seems that the Anglo-American aggressor\/invader\/oppressor has allowed them back into the country.<\/p>\n

The second bit of news is that the country that has supplied the most refugees to the EU is … err …. Iraq. 22% of all refugees in the EU last year were Iraqis<\/a>. Now unless I have missed something obvious, I understood that one of the reasons for the Anglo-American aggressor\/invader\/oppressor invading Iraq was to promote a regime change to get rid of a tyrant\/oppressor so that all of the Iraqis could live in peace and security. So now that Saddam has been gone for a few years and we have a western-style democracy, why is everyone fleeing the country? Shouldn’t they all be happy now with their Saddam-less democracy? Or is this something else that the Anglo-American aggressor\/invader\/oppressor has totally ballsed up?<\/p>\n

And in other other news, I also keep statistics on visits to my website and yesterday I had over 100 more visitors that the usual daily average. I’ll have to wait til later to see what page it was that they were all visiting but it’s certainly exciting all of this.<\/p>\n

-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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