{"id":117,"date":"2012-09-20T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=117"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:41:37","slug":"i-bet-that-you-are-fed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 20th September 2012 &#8211; I BET THAT &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1209\/1209040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1209\/1209040.jpg\" alt=\"collapsed lean to repairing stone wall les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>&#8230; you are fed up of seeing photos of this blasted wall. <\/p>\n<p>But you are lucky &#8211; you only have to look at it for 30 seconds or so. On the other hand, I have to look at it every day from about 12:30 until 19:00, so imagine just how fed up I am!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not finished either. There&#8217;s about 2m\u00b2 to finish off and then to dig out and clear away at the foot of the wall and seal that in.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>And if you think that that is the work of just 5 minutes then think again because this is the crucial bit. <\/p>\n<p>The stones are held in by cement which was pasted over the top of the sand and clay mortar, but that has been washed away a long time ago by the rain infiltrating down behind it when there was no roof on, and so there&#8217;s the cement with nothing behind it. <\/p>\n<p>What I have to do is to knock out the cement, remove the loose stones one-by-one (which is about all of them I reckon) and then knock oversized ones into the gap to bind it all together and cement them in.<\/p>\n<p>Doing it from the top down means that the ones above where I&#8217;ll be working are held in by the cement and by being wedged well in. But it&#8217;s still not comfortable and so if I don&#8217;t blog tomorrow night then it will be because the lot has crashed down on top of me. <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not as far-fetched as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting to me, though. For the first time in absolutely ages I overslept &#8211; clean through the alarms. <\/p>\n<p>Missing most of the morning put me in a bad mood as I had lots to do, but I managed to record the music for my rock music programmes that I shall be recording tomorrow morning (assuming that I wake up).<\/p>\n<p>No, I can&#8217;t wait for the weekend, a rest and a good, comfortable sleep.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-117 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='117' data-nonce='16ce856f7d' 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-117 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-117 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='117' data-nonce='16ce856f7d' 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-117 unlc'>-5<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-117 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; you are fed up of seeing photos of this blasted wall. But you are lucky &#8211; you only have to look at it for 30 seconds or so. On the other hand, I have to look at it every day from about 12:30 until 19:00, so imagine just how fed up I am! It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[564,7309,2560,5565,3273,423,5366,9276,745,5307,782],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-cement","tag-collapsed-lean-to","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-late-start","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-mortar","tag-pointing","tag-radio-anglais","tag-stone-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8973,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}