{"id":10904,"date":"2018-07-22T19:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10904"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:04:22","slug":"saturday-21st-july-2018-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10904","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 21st July 2018 &#8211; FOR THE FIRST TIME &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in several weeks I actually managed three meals today. I&#8217;m not sure why, but this evening I could have eaten a scabby horse, and then gone back for the rider.<\/p>\n<p>But overall, the day wasn&#8217;t quite so impressive. As I said yesterday, I was going back to my desk in the evening to carry on working. And I did too, and I certainly didn&#8217;t expect to be still hard at it at 03:35 either It is getting just like old times again, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The alarms went off at 06:20 and 06:30, and I did here them too. But it was round about 07:35 when something in the street really woke me up. And that was enough for me to crawl out of bed.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine has had some devastating news this last week and is receiving no help &#8211; in fact quite the reverse &#8211; from her husband. We&#8217;ve been chatting on and off for the last few days and she was on-line again. But at least she&#8217;s cheered herself up a bit now and things don&#8217;t look quite so gloomy. <\/p>\n<p>And then another friend was on-line too and decided to tell me all about her bowel disorder just as I was sitting down to breakfast. Thanks very much!<\/p>\n<p>I had a shower and a general clean-up and then headed off to the shops, negotiating the new barrier to the car park now that they seem to have that working. <\/p>\n<p>LIDL came up with nothing special, but then it was off to the <em>dechetterie<\/em> to unload the European Cardboard Box Mountain. Caliburn moves around quite quicker now.<\/p>\n<p>NOZ came up with, apart from the usual stuff, a new rucksack. Mine is really good quality but it&#8217;s too small and awkwardly packed. There were some big 60-litre rucksacks in there today, waterproof too, at just \u20ac19:95. It doesn&#8217;t have the useful pockets that the other one has, but it&#8217;s the size that counts and how the stuff is prportioned. The rest I can invent.<\/p>\n<p>LeClerc didn&#8217;t have too much special either, although I did buy a new decent set of nail scissors. The ones that I have are about 30 years old and slowly giving up the ghost. These new ones are great.<\/p>\n<p>But the media centre there came up with the goods. They were selling 32gb micro-SD cards for just \u20ac11:99 so I bought another three. And a good computer mouse too so that the really good one can go into the office and I can use the new one in the laptop on the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>I was so enthralled by the micro-SD cards that I totally forgot that I&#8217;d gone in there to buy a new SD card for 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\">big 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;\" \/>. I&#8217;ll have to do that next week.<\/p>\n<p>Back here I made mu butties and then went to sit on my wall in the sun, with my book and not one, not two but three lizards now for company. I&#8217;ll have my own herd by the end of the summer won&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1807\/1807303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1807\/1807303.jpg\" alt=\"ferry ile de chausey granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>There was a load of excitement too in the port.<\/p>\n<p>The company that runs the ferries to the Ile de Chausey has two ships, one of which sometimes goes off on tours of the bay.<\/p>\n<p>And with it being summer, we have one going out on a voyage while the other one is on its way itno port.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>And then some tidying up. And the place does look different too now after that. I shall have to press on next week and make even more improvements.<\/p>\n<p>I started some work too but, shame as it is to admit it, it wasn&#8217;t long before I was laid out on the bed fast asleep. For a good couple of hours too, and I would probably still be there now had I not had two really wicked attacks of cramp. <\/p>\n<p>But when I awoke I was starving, hence the meal. Stuffed pepper with spicy rice. And it&#8217;s nice to have some proper hot food for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ll go back to working again. But not until 03:35. 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I&#8217;m not sure why, but this evening I could have eaten a scabby horse, and then gone back for the rider. But overall, the day wasn&#8217;t quite so impressive. As I said yesterday, I was going back to my desk in the evening to carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1160,4507,1616,8571,275,46,27,7876],"tags":[5381,1302,5469,2560,5565,8581,6351,801,2484,5368,5286,1731,3293,7679,5279,7891,11540,11541,1603,462,9977,320,2658],"class_list":["post-10904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dechetterie","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-leclerc","category-lidl","category-noz","category-place-darmes","tag-caliburn","tag-crash-out","tag-dechetterie","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-helena","tag-httpwww-amazon-co-uk","tag-late-night","tag-leclerc","tag-lidl","tag-lie-in","tag-mandy_m","tag-nikon-d3000","tag-noz","tag-place-darmes","tag-rucksack","tag-scissors","tag-sd-card","tag-shower","tag-stuffed-peppers","tag-tidying-up","tag-working-late"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904","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=10904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}