{"id":11016,"date":"2018-08-24T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2019-03-29T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:27:40","slug":"friday-24th-august-2018-ive-been-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11016","title":{"rendered":"Friday 24th August 2018 &#8211; I&#8217;VE BEEN SEARCHING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; through the fridge today looking for stuff that needs eating.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something that I should have done a few days ago because there&#8217;s piles of stuff there that should have been cooked, but what with one thing and another I haven&#8217;t got round to it.<\/p>\n<p>Two and a half peppers were probably the most important thing, and the garlic too. There were too many onions and potatoes. Some of them will be wasted unfortunately but I fetched some of them out.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a roll of pastry and so I had an idea.<\/p>\n<p>First thing was to put a load of lentils in the slow cooker for an hour. And when they were heated, to rinse them, add fresh water and a pile of potatoes &#8211; all that I could add to fill the pot.<\/p>\n<p>After about an hour I fried a few of the onions with all of the garlic that was left. And while they were frying I added some cumin, turmeric, chili pepper and coriander.<\/p>\n<p>Slicing up the peppers and a tomato, I added them to the wok and stirred them around. Finally I took the stuff out of the slow cooker, rinsed it all and added that to the pile.<\/p>\n<p>After about 10 minutes of frying, a stock cube, a carton of soya cream and some water was added and it was all left to simmer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808129.jpg\" alt=\"home made pasty granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>I unrolled the pie wrap and cut it into quarters.<\/p>\n<p>I added a couple of spoons of the stuff out of the wok into the quarters of pastry and made myself some pasties.<\/p>\n<p>They went into a warm oven at 220\u00b0C for 40 minutes until they were done and they look absolutely delicious. They are going into the freezer tonight when they have cooled, ready for when I come back from my voyage.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of the mixture, I ladled it all into individual containers and they will be in the freezer too for when I come back.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame about the food that&#8217;s left but there isn&#8217;t much that I can do about this.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was asleep again until the alarm went off, and I was up fairly early too. And after the usual morning procedure, I started to sort out my clothes and to pack my suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I don&#8217;t know what I need to take with me, so it&#8217;s a case of a lot of things just in case. The suitcase isn&#8217;t all that full though, even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-one-and-only-Strawberry-Moose\/146696445365437?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Moose<\/a> takes up a lot of room. He&#8217;s coming this time too for a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>He missed out in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808121.jpg\" alt=\"exposition des voiliers granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Later this morning I had to go into town for the fruit and so on.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a kind of fair or exhibition going on at the harbour. It&#8217;s to celebrate the working sailing ships that worked out of here.<\/p>\n<p>But first I had to stock up with the fruit of course and then while I was here, to buy a baguette.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808123.jpg\" alt=\"house prices solicitors granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>On the way back to the harbour I went past the solicitor&#8217;s office where they put in the window the details of the houses that they sell.<\/p>\n<p>And they are at it again. Just look at the price of this house. Never mind being calculated to the nearest round thousand Euros, it&#8217;s calculated down to the nearest centime.<\/p>\n<p>Just how tight can you be? It&#8217;s the kind of thing that leads the legal profession into disrepute, advertising prices like these. <br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808127.jpg\" alt=\"exposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Having done that, I went down to the harbour to have a good look around at the marquees.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t much going on that interested me. Lots of shops selling stuff and exhibitions of photographs that didn&#8217;t take too long to see.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few stalls selling paintings too, but most of them didn&#8217;t have prices exhibited. That&#8217;s the kind of thing that really gets my goat. If they are ashamed of their prices they shouldn&#8217;t be selling them.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808125.jpg\" alt=\"exposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>ON the other hand, of course, it could be that, as in most of these kind of places, the price depends upon the moment and the prospective purchaser. And that&#8217;s just as bad.<\/p>\n<p>But there were some people promoting an association of sailing ships. Some of them are small ones, but some are quite big and occasionally go on voyages across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>I shall have to make further enquiries about this, because a trip across the Atlantic on board a three-master would certainly do me good.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808128.jpg\" alt=\"seagulls goelands granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>At lunchtime I made my butties and went out on the wall with my book.<\/p>\n<p>No lizards today though. And that&#8217;s not surprising because I was joined by a seagull which was taking her baby for a walk. The poor little thing was quite nervous and crying for much of the time, and mummy was teaching it to jump up and down on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>But talking of nervous and crying, you can just about see some other people on the left-hand edge of the photo. They were Dutch and pulled up to park there. The little girl opened her door and the window hit the mirror of a van parked next door and shattered into a thousand pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The poor girl was so frightened and let out a yell. It took quite a while for her to calm down.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon was spent cooking and doing some tidying and the rest will be done tomorrow. After tea &#8211; a burger and vegetables &#8211; I watched the football. Llanelli v Barry Town in the Welsh Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Llanelli scored a goal after just two minutes, and after that, Barry laid siege to the Llanelli goal. There were four or five shots that were kicked off the line.<\/p>\n<p>When Barry had a player sent off it looked as if it was curtains but with the last kick of the game, Barry scored a header from a free kick.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good match, but from what I&#8217;ve seen so far there&#8217;s quite a gulf between the top and the bottom of the table and these two clubs are not going to find it easy.<\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow I&#8217;ll finish packing and do some tidying up ready to leave on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>And who knows where I&#8217;m going to end up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808122.jpg\" alt=\"exposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nexposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808124.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808124.jpg\" alt=\"exposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nexposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1808\/1808126.jpg\" alt=\"exposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nexposition des voiliers du travail granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-11016 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='11016' data-nonce='09b83e2760' 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-11016 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-11016 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='11016' data-nonce='09b83e2760' 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-11016 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-11016 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; through the fridge today looking for stuff that needs eating. It&#8217;s something that I should have done a few days ago because there&#8217;s piles of stuff there that should have been cooked, but what with one thing and another I haven&#8217;t got round to it. 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