{"id":1412,"date":"2013-07-19T21:10:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2017-07-16T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T08:53:22","slug":"friday-19th-july-2013-i-hada-quiet-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Friday 19th July 2013 – I HAD A QUIET …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… day today.<\/p>\n

And although it might not look at first glance that I’ve done much, first thing that I did was to deal with a huge amount of correspondence. <\/p>\n

I’ve done most of it (still a few bits and pieces left), especially the important stuff, and I feel rather better about it now. <\/p>\n

Amongst the piles of mail was one from Trixi. The house that she was buying has … errr … fallen through and so now she’s hot-foot after another one. That’s in the same neck of the woods as where Nina lives and they’ll get on like a house on fire.<\/p>\n

This project of a woodburning stove with back boiler, and solar tubes for hot water in the summer, exactly like what I’ll be doing here, is still on though and so my usual late-autumn voyage to the UK might have a purpose just for a change. <\/p>\n

It was nice to see her last year when I was in the UK – doesn’t Facebook have a lot to answer for?<\/p>\n

Apart from the post, I finished up tidying up in the bedroom.<\/p>\n

All of the plasterboard is now flat on the floor where it’s supposed to be, the rest of the floor is comparatively empty, and I have also fitted a work bench. <\/p>\n

It even has power – mains AND 12 volt. Luxury indeed! You won’t recognise it in there.<\/p>\n

That took me until 19:20 – yes, POETS DAY indeed – but I would have finished earlier except that I had a mid-afternoon interruption.<\/p>\n

It seems that there’s a project to photograph everyone in the village (all 280 of us) and they wanted to know when it might be convenient. So tomorrow at 11:00 it is. I shall have to smarten myself up.<\/p>\n

In other news, the city of Detroit has gone bust<\/a>. That’ll teach the Septics to laugh when an EU country goes bust. <\/p>\n

But, interestingly, when an EU country goes bust, the other members rally round to help the country out. I haven’t seen a single offer of assistance from any other American city for Detroit. Serve them right.<\/p>\n

\"derelict<\/a>But Detroit is a depressing place. <\/p>\n

In the 1950s it had almost 2,000,000 people. Now it’s down to just 660,00 and consequently huge areas of the city are abandoned, derelict and decaying. <\/p>\n

I was there in early October 2010<\/a> on my way to the Trans-Labrador Highway<\/a> and the place looked appalling. <\/p>\n

They have serious trouble in that city, that’s for sure, with the dereliction, decay, murder and violent crime, and having no money to pay for support isn’t going to help them. <\/p>\n

I’ve seen some poor neighbourhoods on my travels but Detroit beats them all.
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