{"id":10965,"date":"2018-08-04T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10965"},"modified":"2019-04-03T06:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:32:47","slug":"saturday-4th-august-2018-we-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10965","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 3rd August 2018 &#8211; WE ARE NOT ALONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, at 17:00 I was at the railway station waiting for the Paris train to arrive and once it was properly parked at the platform Alison alighted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been up quite early this morning, after another poor night&#8217;s sleep (it&#8217;s becoming too much of a habit). And after the usual start to the day I started to tidy up the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>A little later, I loaded up the washing machine and then headed off to the shops and yet more encounters with miserable grockles.<\/p>\n<p>At LIDL I didn&#8217;t buy anything exciting, but Noz once again did the business. They were having a clearance sale of gluten-free food today, and as Alison eats gluten-free food I stocked up with it so that she would have a choice of food to eat.<\/p>\n<p>It was the same old stuff in LeClerc too but with more gluten-free stuff as well so that Alison would have an even better choice of food. Nothing like a bit of variety, is there?<\/p>\n<p>Back here, I hung up the washing in the window and set the fan on it to blow it dry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808220.jpg\" alt=\"la granvillaise baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>And then I made my butties and went to sit on the wall with the book and two of the lizards.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite busy out there in the Baie de Mont St Michel at lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the sailing boats out there was <em>la Granvillaise<\/em> with a good load of passengers, with <em>Le Grande Ancre<\/em> in the foregound.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808221.jpg\" alt=\"yacht sailing club baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>That wasn&#8217;t all either.<\/p>\n<p>The local sailing club seems to be in full swing too. All of their yachts were out there this lunchtime in the Baie de Mont St Michel.<\/p>\n<p>There was probably quite a lot more going on there too, but I didn&#8217;t stay out too long. The heat really was overwhelming and I was glad to retreat into my apartment afterwards.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>However, I didn&#8217;t have much time to waste. I cleaned the bathroom and toilet, changed the bedding in the bedroom for the new stuff that I had bought the other day (after all, no-one wants to sleep in any bedding that has had me in it, no matter how many times it has subsequently been washed) and then vacuumed everywhere again.<\/p>\n<p>Final taSk was to wash all of the floors. That took me nicely up to about 16:15, time to hit the streets. And the heat.<\/p>\n<p>At the station I was early so I was able to pick up my tickets without any problems, and then Alison and I came back into town.<\/p>\n<p>We visited a few shops and then stopped off at one of the bars on the harbour for a nice long, cold drink. Totally necessary in this kind of heat.<\/p>\n<p>During our walk back up the hill we had a little deviation to visit the medieval walls, and then came back here for a rest and for Alison to sort herself out in the bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>We weren&#8217;t particularly hungry at that stage so we went off for a walk around the headland amongst the madding crowds, because there were quite a few people around. We went a different, more energetic way too &#8211; to such an extent that I found that I had done 123% of my activity for today which is always nice.<\/p>\n<p>The pies that I made the other evening went down a treat too &#8211; with potatoes, mixed vegetables and a vegan cheese sauce. Lactose and gluten-free, every drop of it.<\/p>\n<p>So after putting the world to rights for a considerable amount of time, Alison went off to bed. And I settled down for the night too. I need my sleep for it&#8217;s going to be a long, hot day tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-10965 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='10965' data-nonce='735c0713c9' 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-10965 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-10965 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='10965' data-nonce='735c0713c9' 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-10965 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-10965 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, at 17:00 I was at the railway station waiting for the Paris train to arrive and once it was properly parked at the platform Alison alighted. I&#8217;d been up quite early this morning, after another poor night&#8217;s sleep (it&#8217;s becoming too much of a habit). And after the usual start to the day I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3375,4507,1616,8571,10874,11127,275,46,27,7876],"tags":[5920,4788,8741,2560,8486,5565,11556,8581,10875,11128,5368,5286,5279,1311,7891,1392,320,6265,502],"class_list":["post-10965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alison-weihe","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-la-grande-ancre","category-la-granvillaise","category-leclerc","category-lidl","category-noz","category-place-darmes","tag-alison-weihe","tag-bad-night","tag-baie-de-mont-st-michel","tag-eric-hall","tag-fitbit","tag-france","tag-gluten-free","tag-granville","tag-la-grande-ancre","tag-la-granvillaise","tag-leclerc","tag-lidl","tag-noz","tag-paris-2","tag-place-darmes","tag-railway-station","tag-tidying-up","tag-vegan-pie","tag-washing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965","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=10965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}