{"id":1199,"date":"2013-05-23T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2013-05-23T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:31:57","slug":"and-so-i-drove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"And so I drove …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… 78 kilometres down to Clermont Ferrand (and don’t forget the 78 kilometres back as well) and paid for a parking space in the town, in order to go along and translate the English-speaking interviews into French at this Europavox rock music festival for the radio station in Gerzat for which Liz and I do some work. And that is one of the reasons why I ended uo coming back a few days earlier than normal.<\/p>\n

And the first interview was, as you might epect, in English. And what you didn’t expect, because I didn’t expect it either, was that someone else did the translating. Making enquiries with Bernard, the President, it appears that no meeting was held at the radio station to discuss the translation, so someone brought along his girlfriend, “who speaks excellent English” (although you would never have guessed) and, apparently, “they are quite insistent that she does it”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Well, they do realise”, I said, “that she’s also doing it on Friday and Saturday too” and with that, I turned on my heels and walked off. And that, as they say, is that. It appears that I’ve left them in the lurch, but ask me if I care. <\/span><\/p>\n

This morning I went round to Pooh Corner to see how things were there, and it was enough to bring a person to tears. You can’t see anything for the weeds. It’s absolutely dreadful. These 6 weeks of incessant rain (not to mention the snow) have pushed up weeds like tryffids.<\/p>\n

The sad thig about this is that if things go according to plan, with the most optimistic scenario, I’m not going to be back spending any more time than maybe one day each month at Pooh Corner until mid-October.<\/p>\n

Heaven alone knows what the place is going to be like by then. And that’s enough to drive anyone to tears as well.<\/p>\n

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