{"id":1270,"date":"2013-06-19T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2017-07-13T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T16:08:28","slug":"thursday-13th-june-the-answer-to-that-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 13th June 2013 &#8211; THE ANSWER &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to that question was &#8220;no&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s how it appeared at 07:00 this morning when I awoke. <\/p>\n<p>Absolutely hissing down with rain. No-one felt like leaving the comfort of their heaving pit and so it wasn&#8217;t until about 09:00 that we all assembled for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>A quick nip into town afterwards for one or two purchases, being soaked to death by the rain, and that was about that for the morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1306\/1306072.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1306\/1306072.jpg\" alt=\"rocks beach ile d'yeu france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>This afternoon though it did brighten up somewhat so after we dropped C\u00e9cile&#8217;s mother off at the OAPs club for the Thursday singalong, C\u00e9cile and I went for a walk along the rocks on the shore.<\/p>\n<p>We spent much of the time looking in the pools for the marine life left behind by the tide. And believe me, there wasn&#8217;t half enough of it. <\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9cile spent quite some time pointing out to me all of the different varieties of marine life and, true to form, I have now forgotten them all<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>This evening we were invited around for drinks and a chat by C\u00e9cile&#8217;s mother&#8217;s neighbours so I had to be sociable &#8211; not like me at all. And we were there until well past 21:00 too.<\/p>\n<p> C\u00e9cile and I went for a long walk afterwards in the gathering gloom and that was that &#8211; the rain was still holding off.<\/p>\n<p>Highlight of the day was that C\u00e9cile&#8217;s mother&#8217;s cat, Chaupette, finally allowed me to pick her up and stroke her. <\/p>\n<p>We are definitely making progress.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-1270 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1270' 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-1270 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-1270 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1270' 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-1270 unlc'>-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1270 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to that question was &#8220;no&#8221;. At least, that&#8217;s how it appeared at 07:00 this morning when I awoke. Absolutely hissing down with rain. No-one felt like leaving the comfort of their heaving pit and so it wasn&#8217;t until about 09:00 that we all assembled for breakfast. A quick nip into town afterwards for one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,201],"tags":[8668,2560,5565,5357,1731,286],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-ile-dyeu","tag-cat","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-ile-dyeu","tag-lie-in","tag-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9163,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}