{"id":260,"date":"2012-04-01T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-04-22T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:17:25","slug":"well-i-dunno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 1st April 2012 – Well, I dunno …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… what happened to the footy this afternoon at Pionsat’s ground. After something of a considerable thrash (and I mean “thrash” as well) through the delightful Combrailles countryside, I arrive at the Pionsat ground at 15:10 – 10 minutes after kick-off -to find the place all locked up and deserted.<\/p>\n

Someone has been playing an April Fool’s Joke on me, I reckon.<\/p>\n

\"st<\/a>So why the thrash through the countryside? Well, that was because at 13:00 Pionsat’s 1st XI was playing at St Priest and I’d gone down there first.<\/p>\n

This was a match that swung like a pendulum – Pionsat were all over St Priest for the first half an hour and were 1-0 to the good. Then we had half an hour of St Priest to take the match to 2-1 for them, and finally another 30 minutes of Pionsat with the score ending 3-2 in their favour. And I reckoned on the balance of play that they deserved it.<\/p>\n

But there is always a little contention between these two teams and today was no exception. A fair amount of unnecessariness, including an excellent left hook from a St Priest defender that put Ga\u00ebtan on his back for a full five minutes (and for which a card of the colour … errrr … yellow was produced). It must be me, I think. I seem to be the only one making any kind of remark about things like this.
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\"paris<\/a>Anyway, back at Pionsat, I went round to see if Marianne was in and we ended up going for a walk along the old railway line.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

It looks quite good in that photo just here, but it isn’t. Along much of its length we could have done with a machete or two, and something to help us with the barbed wire would have come in useful too. And we did find (quite by accident) a place where there was an astonishing view right across the valley over to La Cellette in the distance with the viaduct in the background.<\/p>\n

And if the view was so good, how come it isn’t reproduced here? Well that’s because bird-brain of Britain here ran out of SIM card, so after all of these exertions we’ll have to go back and do most of it again.<\/p>\n

One thing I forgot to mention yesterday. That is that going out in the early afternoon I happened to glance out of the window and I noticed nothing special about the trees. Going out to the football several hours later I happened to glance out of the window again and they were all covered in blossom. That’s how quickly spring has arrived here – all of five hours. It really is astonishing.
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