{"id":10556,"date":"2018-05-23T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2018-05-23T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:26:50","slug":"wednesday-23rd-may-2018-so-carrying-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10556","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 23rd May 2018 &#8211; SO CARRYING ON &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; from where I left off last night, I ended up taking out the waste paper to the recycling bin. Such is the exciting life that I lead around here these days.<\/p>\n<p>But at least it brought my day&#8217;s efforts to 101% of my target so that I could go to bed quite happily &#8211; albeit rather later than I had planned.<\/p>\n<p>And during the night, I was off on yet another mega-ramble. One that was well-worth remembering, but unfortunately I can&#8217;t remember anything about it now. But all is not lost, because I recorded it for posterity on the dictaphone.<\/p>\n<p>However, it comes to my mind that I have forgotten to copy it onto the laptop and transcribe it, so you&#8217;ll have to wait for another time before you can read all about it.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I don&#8217;t know what I do with my days. Anyone would think that I was really busy, but that&#8217;s not the case. I&#8217;m just old, tired and ill.<\/p>\n<p>But not so old, tired and ill that I couldn&#8217;t deal with the masses of photos that have built up over the last while. Including the ones that I mentioned yesterday. <a href=\"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805069.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805070.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> were taken with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001F1T78E\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=erichall-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B001F1T78E\" target=\"_blank\">the current lens<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=erichall-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B001F1T78E\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> on the big Nikon. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, keeping to exactly the same settings, <a href=\"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805071.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805072.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> were taken with the lens that I borrowed from Happy Cash. <\/p>\n<p>I wish now that I had brought the spare lens with me instead of leaving it back in Virlet. I shall have to bite the bullet and buy another. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/1166860-REG\/nikon_af_s_dx_nikkor_16_80mm.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This one<\/a> is the one that I would really like, but I&#8217;m already selling my body on Boots Corner for the next 20 years so it will have to wait for a while. Does that place you know have anything cheaper, Rhys?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805073.jpg\" alt=\"normandy trader port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>Lunch was spent sitting on the wall overlooking the harbour where I could gaze upon the activity.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>Normandy Trader<\/em> sneaked in during the morning at some time. Here she sits, not yet loaded. Presumably waiting for a delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The lizard that loiters at the foot of tha wall now seems to have become quite tame. He knows that I&#8217;m going to eat a pear, and he knows that some of it will fall to the floor. He&#8217;s a big fan of pears and at first he&#8217;d hide in the long grass and dash out for a quick bite and dash back in. <\/p>\n<p>Now though, he comes out and hangs around waiting, even climbing over my foot to reach the piece that falls.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I crashed out again and then carried on with the photos and a session on the guitar. <\/p>\n<p>I went for my walk too, and they must have been flaming quick with <em>Normandy Trader<\/em> because she had badgered off. Slung her hook, you might say.<\/p>\n<p>But they aren&#8217;t being flaming quick with Caliburn. He&#8217;s still at the garage and there&#8217;s been no phone call. Still, he&#8217;s out of mischief there.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was a delicious mixed vegetables steamed in the microwave, vegan sausages and a nice thick creamy vegan cheese sauce. The freezer and the grated vegan cheese from the Loving Hut in Leuven haven&#8217;t half improved my diet. But I&#8217;ve run out of strawberries now.<\/p>\n<p>Another walk this evening and now I&#8217;m ready for bed. And I need it too. 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Such is the exciting life that I lead around here these days. But at least it brought my day&#8217;s efforts to 101% of my target so that I could go to bed quite happily &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,10714,7876],"tags":[11112,3490,1302,1305,212,2560,5565,8581,10763,801,389,5366,7679,10715,327,7891,320,10893,2487],"class_list":["post-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-normandy-trader","category-place-darmes","tag-bh-photography","tag-caliburn-service","tag-crash-out","tag-dictaphone","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-happy-cash","tag-httpwww-amazon-co-uk","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-les-guis","tag-nikon-d3000","tag-normandy-trader","tag-photo","tag-place-darmes","tag-tidying-up","tag-vegan-cheese-sauce","tag-vegan-sausages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","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=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10557,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}