{"id":10322,"date":"2018-03-20T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10322"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:55:27","slug":"tuesday-20th-march-2018-theres-something-to-be-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10322","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 20th March 2018 &#8211; THERE&#8217;S SOMETHING TO BE SAID &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803071.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803071.jpg\" alt=\"new television place d'armes granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>&#8230; for sitting on one&#8217;s sofa watching the football on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly it&#8217;s only on the internet and the internet connection isn&#8217;t as fast as it has been in the past, but buying a decent-sized television and patching the laptop through it is definitely one of my better decisions.<\/p>\n<p>And not only that &#8211; regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I have a top-of-the-range DVD player with hard drive and recording facility which I resurrected after 7 or 8 years in a box, and the remote control is dead. <\/p>\n<p>Today, doing nothing much in particular I actually found a new generic one on the internet. It seems that my DVD player is still top-of-the-range and still being made after all these years. And so a new remote control is on the way here (at least, it ought to be).<\/p>\n<p>Who knows &#8211; I might even be even more comfortable pretty soon.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>Last night was a slightly better night. Still not perfect but good enough. and after the usual morning performance I even had a shower, a shave and a change of clothes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803068.jpg\" alt=\"road works avenue des vendeens granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>That was the cue to hit the streets for the shopping.<\/p>\n<p>And a slight amount of excitement up near LIDL. For the last few weeks I&#8217;ve noticed piles of hieroglyphics on the road and on the pavement. But today, the street was closed off on one side and they were digging up the area. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this is some more of the fibre-optic work. They seem to have moved on from round where I live.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>But really I should have gone yesterday to LIDL. It was baking day and they had tons of stuff on offer, most of which had gone. However I did buy a baking sheet and &#8230; SHOCK! HORROR! &#8230; a cake box that might even fit my next Christmas cake -if there is one;<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasant walk back here.<\/p>\n<p>And I can tell you that it must be Spring some time soon. The sailing school seems to have started up again and they were out and about in the briny.<\/p>\n<p>I have been meaning to go to see them about a navigation course, but of course I have other preoccupations just now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1803\/1803070.jpg\" alt=\"mobile crane port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>But what makes the walk back even more pleasant are the things that you encounter along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Desperately trying to negotiate the roundabout down at the port was a huge yellow mobile crane &#8211; a massive thing complete with rear-steering. And that&#8217;s the thing over there, fully extended.<\/p>\n<p>It looks as if we are having some serious action on the harbour gates. It&#8217;s round about now that they are supposed to be installed.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>As for the cooking session, the vegan mayonnaise was rather a disappointment. It was far too liquid and I don&#8217;t know what to do about that. But it tastes delicious and I&#8217;ll do some more of this regardless. Maybe a little less mustard.<\/p>\n<p>But the hummus &#8211; that came out absolutely perfectly and I&#8217;m very impressed with that &#8211; almost as much as I am with my galvanised steel dustbin. There are two tubs of that in the freezer now for when I finish this packet of vegan cheese.<\/p>\n<p>But it all goes to show that this mixing kit that I bought a few weeks ago was another excellent buy too. <\/p>\n<p>The weather deteriorated for my afternoon walk and I finished in the rain which was disappointing. But it had cleared up by the time that I went out for my evening walk &#8211; a quick nip out at half-time. <\/p>\n<p>Tea was a stuffed pepper with rice &#8211; cooked in the oven because with having nothing for pudding I made a rice pudding. It&#8217;s been a long time sonce I&#8217;ve had a proper one cooked in the oven and it was well-worth the effort. It was delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the football is over I can catch up with a couple of things and have an early night. I need it.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-10322 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='10322' 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-10322 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-10322 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='10322' 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-10322 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-10322 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for sitting on one&#8217;s sofa watching the football on the big screen. Admittedly it&#8217;s only on the internet and the internet connection isn&#8217;t as fast as it has been in the past, but buying a decent-sized television and patching the laptop through it is definitely one of my better decisions. And not only that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,46,7876],"tags":[10940,8354,10939,2560,5565,8581,3166,5286,10764,7891,9977,10912],"class_list":["post-10322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-lidl","category-place-darmes","tag-cake-box","tag-crane","tag-dvd-player","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-home-made-hummus","tag-lidl","tag-new-television","tag-place-darmes","tag-stuffed-peppers","tag-vegan-mayonnaise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322","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=10322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10326,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}