{"id":12272,"date":"2019-05-13T19:56:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12272"},"modified":"2019-05-15T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T07:46:51","slug":"monday-13th-may-2019-i-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=12272","title":{"rendered":"Monday 13th May 2019 &#8211; I DON&#8217;T KNOW &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I&#8217;d seen my neighbours doing some cleaning up of the concrete platform at the side of the building. And so I went to see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure what this is that they have erected, and I&#8217;ve no idea as to its purpose. But I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;ll find out in early course.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905149.jpg\" alt=\"trawler english channel granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a>There weren&#8217;t all that many people out on land, but the seas were pretty crowded today.<\/p>\n<p>There were all kind sof things out there this afternoon, including this beautiful trawler heading in towards the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The sea was absolutely beautiful this afternoon.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905152.jpg\" alt=\"zodiac fishing rod and line granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a>It wasn&#8217;t just trawlers out there either;<\/p>\n<p>There were a few smaller boats out there with two or three people in them, fishing with rod and line. Just like these two here in this zodiac.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time out there watching them, but they didn&#8217;t seem to be catching anything. It&#8217;s clearly not everyone&#8217;s lucky day.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905154.jpg\" alt=\"yacht english channel granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a>While I was looking at a couple of boats out to sea off the Brittany coast near St Malo, I could see something moving on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking that it might be a ship heading into port at St Malo I photographed it and back here, I cropped and enlarged it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it wasn&#8217;t a ship at all. It was just a boat with a rather large sail. The sail doesn&#8217;t look very yacht-like, so it might nevertheless be something interesting.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905156.jpg\" alt=\"yachts baie de mont st michel st pair sur mer granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a>While I was out admiring the shipping in the Baie de Mont St Michel, I fell in with a couple of tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Having established that I was from the area, they asked me several questions about the town and the fishing industry here. And luckily, I was able to help them out.<\/p>\n<p>It all brings back many happy memories of a previous existence when I did this for a living.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Back here? i decided to start on the notes for 2016 and, as it happens, I can&#8217;t find them anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I must have copied them out somewhere because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/2016c280.html\">I have already written several web pages<\/a> about events on that voyage.<\/p>\n<p>But where they might be, I don&#8217;t have the least clue.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was the falafel with steamed vegetables and cheese sauce followed by the last of the apple pie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905159.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905159.jpg\" alt=\"cherry picker evening beach plat gousset granville manche normandy france eric hall\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a>Of course, I went for my evening walk as usual, and there was no-one about at all except for a solitary girl smoking a cigarette and a couple of people carrying spotlights out of the theatre.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of people were enjoying the late evening sun on the beach at Plat Gousset and I don&#8217;t blame them because it really was a nice evening.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few youngsters too hanging around by the cherry-picker. I must really make an effort to see what that is being used for.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s for another time, I reckon. Tonight I&#8217;m going to try to have an early night and a decent sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905150.jpg\" alt=\"fishing rod and linegranville manche normandy france eric hall\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a><br \/>\nfishing rod and line granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905151.jpg\" alt=\"fishing rod and line granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a><br \/>\nfishing rod and line granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905153.jpg\" alt=\"fishing boats english channel granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a><br \/>\nfishing boats english channel granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1905\/1905155.jpg\" alt=\"fishing boats baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"220\"><\/a><br \/>\nfishing boats baie de mont st michel granville manche normandy france<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-12272 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='12272' data-nonce='e4b5834b25' 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-12272 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-12272 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='12272' data-nonce='e4b5834b25' 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-12272 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-12272 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I&#8217;d seen my neighbours doing some cleaning up of the concrete platform at the side of the building. And so I went to see what was going on. I&#8217;m not quite sure what this is that they have erected, and I&#8217;ve no idea as to its purpose. But I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;ll find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[8741,8725,1624,7487,11990,6338,212,2560,2117,5565,12418,8581,3555,206,389,6339,2316,327,7891,11917,12419,4204,10256,12104,10893,11738],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-baie-de-mont-st-michel","tag-brittany","tag-canada-2","tag-cherry-picker","tag-dashcam","tag-dennis","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-falafel","tag-france","tag-garmin","tag-granville","tag-httpwww-amazon-fr","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-joan","tag-paul_h","tag-photo","tag-place-darmes","tag-plat-gousset","tag-real-player","tag-satnav","tag-st-malo","tag-trawler","tag-vegan-cheese-sauce","tag-zodiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","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=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12290,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions\/12290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}