{"id":1301,"date":"2013-06-23T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2017-07-14T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:17:30","slug":"saturday-21st-june-back-at-pooh-corner-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 22nd June 2013 – MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"les<\/a>… house I was confronted by vegetation the like of which I have very rarely seen. <\/p>\n

It’s all very well with “the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye” but I bet that the weeds round here aren’t so far off that right now. <\/p>\n

There was no path down to the house either and with nothing with which to hack my way through the brush I had to wade my way through the shrubbery, being nettled and brambled all the way.<\/p>\n

Not very pleasant at all. and while I could just about make my way in via the verandah, it’s out of the question to go in by the front door.
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I suppose that what I should really have done was to ask someone to nip round with the strimmer, or strim round with the nipper – one or the other. But it’s too late now.<\/p>\n

As for the house itself, it’s as if no-one has lived there for a hundred years. Cobwebs and all kinds of things all over the place. All in all, very depressing. <\/p>\n

However, I do have to say that I did feel at home there, more than anywhere else, and how I wish that I could go back on a permanent basis. I can’t wait for all of these issues in Brussels and elsewhere to be finished.<\/p>\n

I also made a startling discovery too. I was looking for the keys to the barn and after a while I did discover them – in one of the barn doors, which was wide open. <\/p>\n

Yes, and for about a month or so too.<\/p>\n

I remember going in there to pick up a bottle of stuff to drink before setting off for Fromentine and then Brussels last time I was there. Ahh well …<\/p>\n

Another depressing item is that my printer is not working. It’s already only printing in blue but now it’s not printing anything at all and I was there for half an hour trying to fix it. <\/p>\n

I never seem to have any luck with printers – Pooh Corner is littered with all kinds of abandoned printers that have never seemed to keep going for long.<\/p>\n

But at least I now know how I’m going to do the shower room. It involves the abandonment of one of the projects that I had in mind but it can’t be helped. <\/p>\n

For that particular project, I need another 10cms on the width and while it is possible to invent a work-around, it involves all kinds of contortions with the plumbing and the pipework and at the end of the day, it just isn’t going to be worth the extra effort. <\/p>\n

It won’t look as nice as I wanted it, but then again, since when did I ever care about aesthetics?<\/p>\n

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