{"id":11488,"date":"2018-12-19T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11488"},"modified":"2019-02-16T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:56:54","slug":"wednesday-19th-december-2018-having-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11488","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 19th December 2018 &#8211; HAVING GONE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 to bed at some kind of reasonable time last night, I actually managed to have a reasonable sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I was off on a travel too, but I&#8217;ll spare you the details. It&#8217;s another one of those that will catch you just as you are eating a meal or something and you won&#8217;t thank me for it.<\/p>\n<p>There was something of a lazy daze which took me a while to overcome, but it wasn&#8217;t as late as it might have been which is always good news. Even better news is that the arrangements for my new computer have been confirmed and it might be here in a fortnight if I&#8217;m lucky.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast, I arranged some images, and then started on the High Arctic pages again. A slow ramble through a couple of pages &#8211; nothing as exciting as I have been doing in the past, but much better than recently. I&#8217;m feeling a little better, but not as much as I would like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812108.jpg\" alt=\"repair work residence vauban place d'armes granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>We&#8217;ve had lunch and then the first of our two walks. But I didn&#8217;t get too far out of the building before I came to a resounding halt.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the green machine that was parked out here the other day? Here it is, fully erect and doing a really good impression of a cherry-picker, with some people on board doing some work around the flashing of the dormer window up there.<\/p>\n<p>It looks quite impressive.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812111.jpg\" alt=\"repaired stonework rue du nord granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that a while back they were drilling into the wall above the window of a house along the rue du Nord.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it was that they were doing, they seem to have finished it. And it&#8217;s not easy to see where it was that they were working.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t see the join in the stonework where they were pulling stuff out and, presumably, putting stuff back in.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812121.jpg\" alt=\"full moon seagull granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>We had a beautiful early moon as well this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I was out there taking a few photos of it, during which I was the victim of a really good photo-bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have a seagull performing a celebratory fly-past. Quite by accident on my part of course, but who knows what goes through the mind of a seagull?<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812119.jpg\" alt=\"storm sea wall plat gousset granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>We were having a very strong wind this afternoon, and out on the Plat Gousset we were reaping the full rewards of it.<\/p>\n<p>The waves were piling into the sea wall and every now and again, one was getting the timing perfectly right and the spray was soaring up over the unsuspecting passers-by.<\/p>\n<p>And serve them right too.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812125.jpg\" alt=\"building work town walls square maurice marland granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>A day or two ago we saw a strange-looking crane parked up on the Square Maurice Marland.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a story a while back that there would be some work being undertaken on the medieval town walls. And here they are with the crane looking as if they are actually doing something.<\/p>\n<p>Loads of bags down there filled with all kinds of building material;<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>A stuffed pepper (one of the best that I&#8217;ve ever made) with spicy rice for tea, and my second walk in the dark. That&#8217;s the sum total of my day&#8217;s effort. I&#8217;m going to go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>But before I go, although I have promised not to fill up my pages with politics, I see that the British press is full of comments about a remark that a British politician is alleged to have made about another one. 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I was off on a travel too, but I&#8217;ll spare you the details. It&#8217;s another one of those that will catch you just as you are eating a meal or something and you won&#8217;t thank me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[7189,7487,8354,212,2560,5565,8581,5024,1180,206,7566,7289,8120,7891,10701,11917,11947,782,5379,9977],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-brexit","tag-cherry-picker","tag-crane","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-high-arctic","tag-high-winds","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-jeremy-corbyn","tag-moon","tag-photobomb","tag-place-darmes","tag-place-maurice-marland","tag-plat-gousset","tag-rue-du-nord","tag-stone-wall","tag-storm","tag-stuffed-peppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","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=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}