{"id":120,"date":"2012-09-17T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=120"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T12:56:04","slug":"it-isnt-half-going-dark-early-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Monday 17th September 2012 – IT ISNT HALF …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… going dark early these days.<\/p>\n

\"collapsed<\/a>I was still out pointing the wall this evening when the first of the solar night-lights came on. <\/p>\n

19:40 that was, and long after my knocking off time of 19:00 when I’m on Summer Hours working. <\/p>\n

Mind you, it wasn’t as if I was unaware of the time either – I knew almost exactly how late it was, but I’m falling behind again with this wall and I need to press on.<\/p>\n

And I’m not going to be here tomorrow either.
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This morning I had to go to help Rosemary unload this van with all of this new furniture. <\/p>\n

Quite modern it is, but made of oak and in a period style that perfectly matches the type of house that you find round here. I’m not much of a one for aesthetics as you know, but it really is beautiful stuff. <\/p>\n

The guy who delivers it was quite a useful person to know. He runs a business having articles delivered to him which he then brings down to France for the purchaser. We had a lengthy chat and I’ll be having a few more chats with him in the future too.<\/p>\n

Then I had to go with Terry to the quarry for a trailer-load sand.<\/p>\n

All in all it was 16:20 when I started on the wall, so you see why I’m getting all behind. <\/p>\n

I had a couple more stones drop out on me when I was raking out the old cement – that part of wall really was badly damaged. Anyway, a few oversized stones hammered deep into the gap and that should hold it up, I hope.<\/p>\n

So why aren’t I going up the wall tomorrow then? <\/p>\n

Simply that Terry and I own a mini digger that we hire out and it was out at the weekend. The guy offered us cash, or a huge load of wood instead. Wood being more valuable than the cash, Terry ended up with a huge trailer load.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow I have to go to help Terry cut it into 30cm lengths and then I can load up Caliburn with my share. Wood is a vital part of life round here, especially when it’s -20\u00b0C here in February.<\/p>\n

I’ve still not found my dictaphone and neither have I found the mobile phone, but 1O minutes searching threw up a few other things that I’ve been looking for. <\/p>\n

And I almost forgot to mention that I did go to LIDL this morning and they had 3 packets of those lights left. Or, rather, they did. So now I have enough for the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, as well as for over the workbenches in the barn and the lean-to.<\/p>\n

But I still need plenty more so I might go a little farther afield this weekend.<\/p>\n

In other news, we were having a little chat about this affair in Annecy with this Iraqi family that was massacred. You know, the more I look at this and the more I think about it, the more it looks to me like something that MOSSAD might well have organised. <\/p>\n

I smell a very large rat with all of this.<\/p>\n

-5<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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