{"id":11467,"date":"2018-12-12T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2019-02-27T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:51:16","slug":"wednesday-12th-december-2018-that-was-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11467","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 12th December 2018 &#8211; THAT WAS TWO &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; hours of my life that I won&#8217;t ever get back, I can tell you.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the lady whom I saw at the Tax Office couldn&#8217;t tell me anything that I didn&#8217;t already know. And after she had asked me half a dozen questions, she didn&#8217;t alter or amend my tax form in any way, neither did she ask me to do so. And I&#8217;ll be getting my &#8220;certificate of non-taxation&#8221; in due course, whenever that might be.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what I said last night, it was nothing like an early night. An early morning more like &#8211; something round about 02:15 in fact, so engrossed was I in what I was doing.<\/p>\n<p>Much to my surprise I managed to crawl out of my nice clean bedding round about 06:15, and I don&#8217;t remember much about any voyage except that I was on board a ship at one particular moment.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I had a rustle around for a pile of papers and it turns out that I can&#8217;t find one particular document. I&#8217;ve probably overlooked bringing it with me from the Auvergne, so I had to go to the bank for a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812078.jpg\" alt=\"unloading plant and equipment place d'armes granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Just outside the building here there was a plant lorry dropping off a pile of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>That looked interesting so I went over to them to find out what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there are some major engineering and building works taking place in the old walled town so they were dropping the stuff off here.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy vehicles aren&#8217;t allowed within the walls.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>And there The bank manager looked me out, and came over to shake my hand. I must be well in credit back there right now.<\/p>\n<p>The Tax Office was pretty painless, as I mentioned, and I had a nice walk back here, calling for a baguette on the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812079.jpg\" alt=\"crane loading normandy trader marite port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>When I was heading into town, I noticed that <em>Thora<\/em> had gone out on the morning tide.<\/p>\n<p>That was the same tide that had presumably brought in <em>Normandy Trader<\/em>, which was now tied up at the quayside loading up with supplies.<\/p>\n<p>But on the way back, I noticed that <em>Normandy Trader<\/em> had gone out too. That was a quick turn-round.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder I&#8217;m finding it difficult to keep up with what is going on in the harbour these days &#8211; who&#8217;s coming and who&#8217;s going &#8211; with turn-rounds as quick as this.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812080.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812080.jpg\" alt=\"blankets on chairs in cafe Rue Saint-Sauveur, granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>You can&#8217;t say that people here in Granville are softened by the mild weather.<\/p>\n<p>Hear, the street caf\u00e9s in the rue Saint-Saveur encourage their patrons to sit outside in all kinds of weather, even in mid-winter.<\/p>\n<p>But for those few who do feel the cold, blankets are provided to make sure that they stay outside.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>First thing that I did on reaching the apartment was to make a coffee, and then I crashed out on the chair for a while, until lunchtime in fact.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I attacked the files again. But not for long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812082.jpg\" alt=\"bathers changing plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>I went out in the sunshine for my walk around the walls. And the temperature has plummeted again. Baby, it&#8217;s cold outside.<\/p>\n<p>But not too cold for some.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether these people were on the point of going in or coming out of the water, but I wasn&#8217;t going to hang around and wait to see.<\/p>\n<p>I left them to it and cleared off.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>On returning to the apartment I restarted work but had to go and lie down for a while on the bed. And I was well-away with the fairies until all of a sudden I had one of the worst attacks of cramp that I have had for quite some considerable time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite whatever I tried (and I tried plenty) I couldn&#8217;t get it to ease off for quite a while and it still hurts now.<\/p>\n<p>For tea, I found a potato and chick-pea curry from 30th October &#8230; errr &#8230; 2017. Tons of old stuff in the freezer that needs cleaning out and I&#8217;m aiming at one a week until I can keep something like a 6-month time limit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812083.jpg\" alt=\"night christmas lights rue couraye granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>The wind was rising again when I went out, and we had another endless stream of fishing boats coming into the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>But we are approaching Christmas and the lights are going full-flow now. Right across the valley, the lamps are burning brightly all the way up the rue Couraye.<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t be long before we&#8217;re all curled up around the tree, although whosever tree I&#8217;ll be curling around, it won&#8217;t be my own.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812084.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812084.jpg\" alt=\"bad parking Boulevard des 2e-et-202e-de-Ligne granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>That was all that there was about, except for two cars having a race along the road at the top.<\/p>\n<p>But here around the corner there&#8217;s another example of our famous bad parking.<\/p>\n<p>Why park in two places when you can take up three between you? As I have said before &#8230; <em>&#8220;and you&#8217;ll say it again&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; I really don&#8217;t know what goes through the minds of some people.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>But now the temperature has really dropped and it&#8217;s going to be cold tonight. We were told that the weather would change this week and it looks as if winter has arrived at last.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812081.jpg\" alt=\"bathers changing plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nbathers changing plat gousset 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-11467 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='11467' data-nonce='9a696292aa' 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-11467 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-11467 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='11467' data-nonce='9a696292aa' 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-11467 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-11467 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; hours of my life that I won&#8217;t ever get back, I can tell you. In fact, the lady whom I saw at the Tax Office couldn&#8217;t tell me anything that I didn&#8217;t already know. And after she had asked me half a dozen questions, she didn&#8217;t alter or amend my tax form in any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2325,44,4507,1616,8571,10714,7876,1044],"tags":[548,813,1231,1302,409,212,2560,5565,8581,10715,7891,10672,10845,12177,1049,11555],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-agricole-2","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-normandy-trader","category-place-darmes","category-tax-office","tag-bad-parking","tag-christmas-lights","tag-cramp","tag-crash-out","tag-credit-agricole","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-normandy-trader","tag-place-darmes","tag-potato-chick-pea-curry","tag-rue-couraye","tag-rue-st-saveur","tag-tax-office-2","tag-thora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","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=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}