{"id":211,"date":"2012-06-16T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=211"},"modified":"2017-07-03T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:33:27","slug":"i-had-a-day-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 16th June 2012 &#8211; I HAD A DAY OUT TODAY."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact I went to Montlucon. <\/p>\n<p>And even though I had a late-ish start I was still out and round and back earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p>The impetus was that you my remember me receiving a text to say that my new front door needs picking up, and if I didn&#8217;t get a wiggle on I would lose it. So offI went to pick it up. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not very substantial at all, being just a sheet of double-glazing with a wooden frame around it, and it&#8217;s not going to be used for ages yet. But the reason why I chose it when I did, for those of you with short memories, is that it&#8217;s the same style as the windows that I bought for the house and the range was discontinued at the end of March. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that it was the cheapest double-glazed door has nothing whatever to do with the argument, of course.<\/p>\n<p>My luck was in too. At the Amaranthe health food shop there was some soya cream that had gone past the sell-by date and so they were giving a carton away to each customer. That will do very nicely for a mushroom and onion fried rice later in the week. <\/p>\n<p>At at the rubbish shop (NOZ, for the benefit of the foreigners) they were selling a load of flavoured rice milk at just \u20ac0:75 a litre. There&#8217;s a nice long sell-by date on those and so of course there are now none left in the shop. <\/p>\n<p>Almond-flavoured rice milk on my breakfast muesli &#8211; that has to be the way to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1206\/1206036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1206\/1206036.jpg\" alt=\"dammi multi vitamin fruit drink noz montlucon allier france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>And Dammi if I didn&#8217;t find some of this on sale at NOZ as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a multi-vitamin, multi fruit drink. And I had a good look at the list of ingredients and, sure enough, it contains vitamin B12. being a vegan as you know,<br \/>\n I have lots of issues about my vitamin B12 intake so I&#8217;m always on the lookout for different food items that might contain it.<\/p>\n<p>And with a name like this, it ought to be good too!<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>It was piping hot too &#8211; hottest day of the year for me and so I really fancied a swim, but I had left my swimming trunks back at home. Never mind &#8211; Auchan was having a sale and so for \u20ac5:00 I treated myself to a pair of new ones. <\/p>\n<p>I took the plunge and went to the Centre Aqualudique at the back of Montlucon. I&#8217;d heard a couple of good reports about it. <\/p>\n<p>And it was certainly a far cry from Neris-les-Bains &#8211; tidal pools, a fast-flowing current, bubble-massage seats in the pool. And many more people there than at Neris so there was much more to see. <\/p>\n<p>Ohhhh yes &#8211; I still chase after the women. The problem is though that at my age I can&#8217;t remember why.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac5:00 admission though &#8211; and that&#8217;s quite a difference from \u20ac3:20, and nothing like as intimate. I&#8217;ll just have to save the Centre Aqualudique for special occasions such as midwinter when it&#8217;s far too cold to be at Neris-les-Bains.<\/p>\n<p>At the Brico Depot I bought 4 demi-chevrons and 3 sacks of sand. And you might be wondering why. The demi chevrons because I want to put shelves up in this cupboard downstairs and I want to do it the next time the weather is bad, without having to wait for a trip to the sawmill for the wood. <\/p>\n<p>And the bags of sand? <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some sealing joints that need to be made on the roof of the lean-to that I fitted earlier this year. I&#8217;ve no sand here and so I need to dig out the Sankey trailer, change the wheels, trundle down to the quarry, load the trailer, bring it back here and bag up the sand. <\/p>\n<p>With having the sand here I can have the job finished before I&#8217;ve even changed the wheels on the Sankey. <\/p>\n<p>But I hate the people at Brico Depot. I loaded up Caliburn and then went off to pay for it &#8220;you need to bring your vehicle here&#8221; said the girl in the office. Walking 20 metres was clearly too much for her.<\/p>\n<p>And so I brought the vehicle to the door and she came out &#8211; and then started chatting to a fork-lift truck driver.<br \/>\n&#8220;When you can spare me the time, if it&#8217;s not too much trouble for you&#8221; I said, and so she shrugged her shoulders to the driver and slumped over to me to check my load.<br \/>\nYes, the staff at Brico Depot needs a collective smack in the mouth. It&#8217;s just like being back in Belgium and how I hate that country.<\/p>\n<p>Back here I sat down to watch a film and the next thing that I remember was that it was 20:00. A long time since I&#8217;ve crashed out like that too. <\/p>\n<p>And for the football we watched a team of bouncing Czechs pole-axe their opposition to advance to the next stage of the UEFA Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-211 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='211' data-nonce='4bcb0e2670' 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-211 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-211 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='211' data-nonce='4bcb0e2670' 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-211 unlc'>-1<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-211 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact I went to Montlucon. And even though I had a late-ish start I was still out and round and back earlier than usual. The impetus was that you my remember me receiving a text to say that my new front door needs picking up, and if I didn&#8217;t get a wiggle on I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,478,90,92,4507,1616,6751,258,91,27],"tags":[9064,5626,5396,1673,363,5303,1302,3408,9066,7315,3285,2560,5565,6752,423,5366,369,277,5282,5279,8213,4750,2293,5355,6765,1101,9065,5040],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amaranthe","category-auchan","category-brico-depot","category-centre-aqualudique","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-lapeyre","category-les-guis","category-montlucon","category-noz","tag-almond-milk","tag-amaranthe","tag-auchan","tag-belgium-2","tag-brico-depot-2","tag-centre-aqualudique","tag-crash-out","tag-czech-republic-2","tag-dammi","tag-demi-chevrons","tag-door","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-lapeyre","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-montaigut-quarry","tag-montlucon-2","tag-neris-les-bains","tag-noz","tag-poland","tag-poor-customer-service","tag-sand","tag-sankey-trailer","tag-soya-cream","tag-stair-cupboard","tag-uefa-nations-cup","tag-vitamin-b12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8707,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}