{"id":12030,"date":"2019-03-31T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:31:28","slug":"saturday-30th-march-2019-move-over-imelda-marcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12030","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 30th March 2019 &#8211; MOVE OVER IMELDA MARCOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been shopping for shoes today.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend after the football there was someone outside the ground handing out vouchers for 25% off the winter sports goods at Intersport.<\/p>\n<p>For a while now I&#8217;ve been looking for a new pair of hiking boots and also a new pair of trainers and not found anything that I really liked. So I thought that this morning I may as well go there and see what they have.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I walked out with a decent pair of walking trainers and a decent pair of hiking boots, and also a pair of photography gloves. And 25% off them all too, and that&#8217;s off the mark-down price on the last day of the sale too.<\/p>\n<p>They both have 5 stars for everything, except for impermeability, for which they scored three stars. But this afternoon I gave them a really good drenching in waterproofing solution and when that&#8217;s properly dry in the middle of the week, they&#8217;ll receive a second coat too.<\/p>\n<p>It worked, and worked in spades too, for the trainers that I wear right now and which have all of the tread worn off due to constant use, so it may well work for them too.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to bed and slept right through all the way until the alarm went off. I only have a vague recollection of going on a voyage, concerning a man whose dog had died and he wanted to bury him, but he was lamenting the fact that the only thing that he had was his mother&#8217;s old silver casket and how he was going to miss it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite waking up with the alarm, as is usual these days I turned over and went back to sleep again. 07:25 when I arose from the dead, and by the time that I had finished the usual performance and the weekend shower, it was 09:10 before I hit the streets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903335.jpg\" alt=\"road accident avenue des matignon granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>LIDL didn&#8217;t come up with anything special, so having bought the basics, I headed for NOZ.<\/p>\n<p>But it took me a while to get there due to an enormous queue in the avenue des Matignon. It turns out that there had been a road accident involving a car and a motor bike.<\/p>\n<p>If you look carefully, you can see the debris all over the road.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903336.jpg\" alt=\"bad parking noz granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Eventually, I made it to NOZ and here once again, we are confronted with another pile of pathetic parking.  It&#8217;s the kind of thing that really gets on my wick.<\/p>\n<p>But in Noz, I made one or two interesting purchases. At long last I&#8217;ve found a proper pie tin and that cheered me up no end. And a couple of small ramekin dishes for the oven<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, there was an Inspector Maigret full-length DVD that will go quite nicely with my collection. <br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903337.jpg\" alt=\"brexit fiasco granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>The shoes were next, and then back to LeClerc.<\/p>\n<p>And isn&#8217;t it embarrassing and shameful when you see your country pilloried liks this even in the French local press. How could 17.4 million xenophobic racists, backed by a small group of opportunistic extremist politicians, drag the country through the mire like this.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the plot, I didn&#8217;t buy anything special here either.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>On the way home, I called at the second-hand shop to see what they had on offer. But there was nothing really that caught my eye at all.<\/p>\n<p>Enormous queues again around the town with everyone taking the summer air. I&#8217;d even taken off my jacket. And the rue des Juifs is closed because of the works to the wall, and I had to go all around the houses to get back home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903338.jpg\" alt=\"la granvillaise port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>Having half-unpacked my shopping, I had lunch.<\/p>\n<p>It was such a beautiful day that I took my book and the special baguette that I had bought and went out to sit on the wall overlooking the harbour to see what was going on in the sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>And it was quite a busy lunchtime out there too.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903340.jpg\" alt=\"la granvillaise port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>We had <em>La Granvillaise<\/em> out there doing her stuff after her major refit, and in the company of several other yachts.<\/p>\n<p>And as well as that, we had one of the catamarans owned by one of the fishermen coming into port, presumably to unload this morning&#8217;s catch.<\/p>\n<p>No lizards for my pear droppings though. they are probably still hibernating somewhere in a gap in the stone wall.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>And then, back in the apartment I unpacked the other half of the shopping, having to stop for a little &#8230; errr &#8230; relax halfway through. And no surprise there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903341.jpg\" alt=\"football us granvillaise uson mondeville stade louis dior granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>US Granville&#8217;s 2nd XI were playing tonight. USAN Mondeville were the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>I think that I&#8217;ve only seen them once this season and I don&#8217;t remember much about it. But it was such a nice evening that I went out for a good walk.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m rather disappointed that I did go, because it didn&#8217;t turn out as I was hoping.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903342.jpg\" alt=\"football photographer stade louis dior granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>While you all admire the official photographer and his equipment, I can tell you something about the match.<\/p>\n<p>Although the two teams were pretty much even on the field, Granville had no answer to the power and pace of the corners that the Mondeville winger was banging in.<\/p>\n<p>And they had even less answer to the power and the pace of the defenders who were running in unmarked.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Panic and chaos ensued at every one and Mondeville scored from three of them. Thei fourth goal was from a good clearance by a Granville defender that had the misfortune to find a Mondeville attacker totally unmarked with all of the time in the world 15 metres out.<\/p>\n<p>And, as usual, Granville didn&#8217;t have anyone out there who had the striker&#8217;s instinct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1903\/1903343.jpg\" alt=\"ford fiesta trailer granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>On the way back, Rosemary called me, so we arranged that she would call me back later.<\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, I was distracted by this vehicle on the car park of the <em>Foyer Des jeunes Travailleurs<\/em>. Excuse the very blurry photo but I only had the time to shoot off a quick image<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cut-down Ford Fiasco being used as a trailer, and that&#8217;s exciting in itself.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>An the apartment, Rosemary called me back while I was watching TNS v Barry Town in the Welsh Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary and I had a very lengthy chat while TNS did the predictable. Barry just couldn&#8217;t seem to get going tonight.<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s late, I&#8217;ve had no tea but I didn&#8217;t care. 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