{"id":11572,"date":"2019-01-19T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2019-02-09T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:57:12","slug":"saturday-19th-january-2019-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11572","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 19th January 2019 &#8211; PART THREE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; of &#8220;hunt the passport&#8221; continued today. And the result was exactly the same as Parts One and Two.<\/p>\n<p>Even donning a pair of rubber gloves and sifting through two weeks of putrefying rubbish in the waste bin in the kitchen failed to produce a result.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm went off as usual and in accordance with usual practice these days I was rather tardy in rising from the dead.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I made a start on searching in the living room for the passport. That involved firstly going piece-by-piece through all of the cardboard and paper that had accumulated here over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d done that, it all went into the back of Caliburn ready for the tip one of these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1901\/1901065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1901\/1901065.jpg\" alt=\"fibre optic cable granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>A little later I wandered off into town.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d noticed the other day that a strange sign had appeared by the archway into the medieval town, and I had overlooked to go and read what it was saying.<\/p>\n<p>So I took the opportunity to go over there for a read, and it&#8217;s concerned with the roadworks for the fibre-optic cabling that is taking place all over Normandy.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>First stop was the Bank. I know that they told me on the telephone that they didn&#8217;t have it, but it needed to be confirmed. And it was too, much to my dismay.<\/p>\n<p>But over the road is the photo place, and I need a pile of photos for various things, so he rattled me off a quick pile of them.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back I called into the market for a <i>baguette<\/i> and then wandered round to the Police Station to see if by any chance the passport had been found and handed in.<\/p>\n<p>But as regular readers of rubbish might recall, it&#8217;s times like this that the Police Station is closed. Instead I went next door to the Carrefour and bought my rubber gloves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1901\/1901066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1901\/1901066.jpg\" alt=\"bedford CF caravanette granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>On my way down into town I&#8217;d noticed that our old friend (and &#8220;old&#8221; being the operative word) the Bedford CF was parked up in it usual place in the rue des Terreneuviers<\/p>\n<p>And so on the way back up the hill to home, I took a photograph of it. It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve featured an old vehicle on here<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably at least 35 years old, but it keeps on rolling along regardless. Regular readers of this rubbish will recall a few months ago that they were taking out the engine at the side of the road on one occasion that it was here.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Back at the flat, Jackie contacted me. No luck at the Deutsche Bahn either but at least the loss is recorded and I have a file number. So I printed out the report, printed out a copy of the passport (I keep a scan of all of my important documents &#8220;just in case&#8221;), put it all in the expired passport from 2010 and put that in my pocket.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m controlled on my journey, at least I&#8217;ll have something to show for it.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I went through the waste bin and that was horrible with all of the stuff that was in there. But it had to be done and at least I know that it&#8217;s not in there.<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t see the rail tickets from my visit just before Christmas, so I don&#8217;t know where they are. And so I reckon that wherever they are, my passport is there too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly not anywhere else in the house. I&#8217;ve been right through it so I&#8217;m reasonably sure of that, so how did I manage to write the passport number on the form that I have?<\/p>\n<p>Tea was out of a tin tonight, and then we had the football. The Welsh League Cup between Cardiff Metropolitan and Cambrian &amp; Clydach, the team from Tonypandy.<\/p>\n<p>Cambrian &amp; CLydach are from the Second Level but they did really well and took some impressive scalps on their way to the final. They played quite well with a couple of really good players, but Cardiff Metro had much more experience. Cambrian should have had a penalty early in the game, but they should also have had two men sent off in the first 35 minutes &#8211; one for a stamping and the other for an elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Metro scored a goal in the first half, and a second with the final kick of the game following a breakaway from a Cambrian corner, with the Cambrian keeper stranded upfield.<\/p>\n<p>The game hinged on a substitution from Cambrian after 60 minutes. They brought on a really quick and tricky forward, but took off the experienced centre-forward Richard French. He&#8217;s big and muscular and throws his weight around and while he might not have all that much skill, he was making his presence felt and unsettling the defence quite considerably.<\/p>\n<p>Cambrian had a good spell for about 10 minutes after the substitution, and had they had French up front, they might have made their pressure count.<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s bedtime. An alarm in the morning because I have a train to catch. 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And the result was exactly the same as Parts One and Two. Even donning a pair of rubber gloves and sifting through two weeks of putrefying rubbish in the waste bin in the kitchen failed to produce a result. The alarm went off as usual and in accordance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,2325,4507,1616,8571,281,10770,7876],"tags":[6723,10838,5381,12090,10756,5360,409,2560,10876,5287,5565,8581,12070,10123,5370,8247,7891,7297,12091],"class_list":["post-11572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrefour","category-credit-agricole-2","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-old-cars","category-photographer","category-place-darmes","tag-baguette","tag-bedford-cf","tag-caliburn","tag-cambrian-and-clydach","tag-cardiff-metropolitan","tag-carrefour","tag-credit-agricole","tag-eric-hall","tag-fibre-optic-cable","tag-football","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-jackie-schueller","tag-lost-passport","tag-old-cars","tag-photographer","tag-place-darmes","tag-street-market","tag-tonypandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572","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=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11652,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}