{"id":146,"date":"2012-08-22T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=146"},"modified":"2017-07-09T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T08:21:04","slug":"i-had-a-much-better-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 22nd August 2012 – I HAD A …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… much better day today.<\/p>\n

Or, at least, I think that I did but I won’t know until I compare the photo of today’s work with that of yesterday’s. <\/p>\n

Anyway, this morning the issue of the chisel was decided by the fact that I couldn’t find the old screwdriver anywhere no matter how hard I looked, and so I fetched a metalworking chisel from the toolbox. I’ll be using that until I can buy a stonemason’s chisel on Saturday.<\/p>\n

And it worked wonders too – first thing that I did after midday was to chase out a huge segment of mortar, and I was doing so well that I reckoned that I’d bung a bucket-load of mortar in before lunch. <\/p>\n

I must have been so carried away though because a glance at the clock told me that it was 14:20 – a good 20 minutes after lunchtime and that’s not like me at all. You can call me anything you like as long as you don’t call me late for lunch<\/p>\n

\"collapsed<\/a>After lunch I heaved another 6 buckets of lime mortar into the wall.<\/p>\n

But although it all went in really well and I was making some really nice and consistent mixes, this huge crack is being rather awkward and it isn’t really going how I want it to go. <\/p>\n

None of the stones that I can find are the correct size and so it’s being a little patchy. <\/p>\n

it’ll all stick together, that’s for sure, but it’s not as artistic as I would like it to be.
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A good morning on the radio programmes too.<\/p>\n

I’m now up to 23kb of our latest effort and it’ll be another big one I reckon, certainly overtaking the “load of rubbish” that we did in February and March.<\/p>\n

But hark at me, hey? “Not as artistic as I would like it to be” – who do I think I am? <\/p>\n

I’ll be starting to criticise other people’s curtains if I carry on like this!<\/p>\n

-4<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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… much better day today. Or, at least, I think that I did but I won’t know until I compare the photo of today’s work with that of yesterday’s. Anyway, this morning the issue of the chisel was decided by the fact that I couldn’t find the old screwdriver anywhere no matter how hard I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[7309,2560,5565,3237,423,5366,745,5307,782],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-collapsed-lean-to","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-late-lunch","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-pointing","tag-radio-anglais","tag-stone-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}