{"id":2649,"date":"2013-12-18T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:26:24","slug":"wednesday-18th-december-2013-despite-what-i-said-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 18th December 2013 &#8211; DESPITE WHAT I SAID YESTERDAY &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I cracked on with this wall today, and it&#8217;s finished too!<\/p>\n<p>What got me going was that in the part of the stone wall that I hadn&#8217;t touched, there were all kinds of things growing in it, including two huge thistles, and so I needed to demolish part of the wall to uncover the roots.<\/p>\n<p>The wall there wasn&#8217;t much good and it didn&#8217;t take long, and by the time that I&#8217;d done that, I had a huge pile of stones. Digging out a track to replace the stones, I found that there was a long line of stones, right up to the boundary of the plot, down underneath the soil. There&#8217;s been a wall here before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1312\/1312014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1312\/1312014.jpg\" alt=\"building stone wall les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>That was the cue to dig out the track properly and to clean it out, and then I dashed off for my surveyor&#8217;s line and a pile of large stones from my collection.<\/p>\n<p>There was one that made a beautiful corner piece and it was really heavy so with a large crowbar I levered it into position and there we were, on our way.<\/p>\n<p>Building stone walls is not as easy as you might think &#8211; it&#8217;s a bit like a three-dimensional jigsaw and you need lots of patience, and so I&#8217;m surprised that I managed to get as far as I did. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1312\/1312016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1312\/1312016.jpg\" alt=\"building stone wall les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>But it&#8217;s here in all its glory, all assembled and pointed, and it makes a world of difference to the place.<\/p>\n<p>It needs to be built up from the reverse side but that can wait for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I always know when I&#8217;ve done something that I&#8217;ve enjoyed and that has pleased me, because I have a tendency to sit and look at it for ages. and I certainly did that with this wall, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>With what was left of my working day, I attacked the upstairs in the lean-to. I found a big box and all the dry mortar that I scraped out of the wall when I pointed it, that went in the box and now it&#8217;s quite clean and tidy up there;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I may well make a start on making the shelves and cupboards that will be going there.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-2649 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='2649' data-nonce='59a919cba4' 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-2649 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-2649 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='2649' data-nonce='59a919cba4' 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-2649 unlc'>-4<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-2649 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I cracked on with this wall today, and it&#8217;s finished too! What got me going was that in the part of the stone wall that I hadn&#8217;t touched, there were all kinds of things growing in it, including two huge thistles, and so I needed to demolish part of the wall to uncover the [&hellip;]<\/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":[2560,5565,423,5366,745,782,320],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-pointing","tag-stone-wall","tag-tidying-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}