{"id":2713,"date":"2014-01-07T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:59:15","slug":"monday-6th-january-2014-god-it-was-hard-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Monday 6th January 2014 &#8211; GOD IT WAS HARD THIS MORNING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to get out of bed. Even though I had had an early night and was wide awake when the alarm went off, it was still a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>And the first thing that I noticed was that in my haste I had forgotten to do the washing up last night, and there is very little that I hate more than waking up to a pile of dirty washing-up.<\/p>\n<p>First job this morning was to empty the composting toilet. Such lovely jobs that I have to do here of course. And after that I had to sort out some wood. I&#8217;m running low on kindling but there&#8217;s a big bin of it that was thoroughly soaked in a downpour. I had to drain that out and, seeing as it was (for a change) a fine day, I laid it all out to dry.<\/p>\n<p>To get there though I had to attack my pile of old windows &#8211; some that I had picked up from the <em>dechetterie<\/em> for the glass, the fittings and, of course, the wood to burn. So while I was there, I dismantled a few of those.<\/p>\n<p>This then led to the woodshed. I hadn&#8217;t quite finished it off as there was a curtain, made from a tarpaulin, to hang across the front. While I was busy adding wood to the woodshed I took 20 minutes to sort that out, and now that&#8217;s finished.<\/p>\n<p>Next job was to start moving the stones. And some of them were flaming heavy too &#8211; I&#8217;ve no idea how I got them into there in the first place. Most of them I could lift out but a few I had to roll.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon when the big stones were out of the way I started to tidy up some of the rubbish. And there was a pile of that too, but once that was out of the way I could look at the rest of the rubble. <\/p>\n<p>To move that, I needed to clear the space where I had been tipping the rubble before. A year or two&#8217;s worth of weeds, nettles and brambles needed cutting down and removing so that took a while, and before I knew it, we were in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with all of the donkey work having been done, the rest should be straightforward tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>No fire up here tonight and it&#8217;s 16.8\u00b0C up here. This weather is astonishing. I even ended up cooking downstairs tonight &#8211; far too warm here for a fire.<\/p>\n<p>But guess who put a tin of lentils instead of a tin of kidney beans into his aubergine and kidney bean casserole?   <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-2713 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='2713' data-nonce='9436b317be' 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-2713 lc'>+3<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-2713 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='2713' data-nonce='9436b317be' 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-2713 unlc'>-5<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-2713 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to get out of bed. Even though I had had an early night and was wide awake when the alarm went off, it was still a struggle. And the first thing that I noticed was that in my haste I had forgotten to do the washing up last night, and there is very little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,9072],"tags":[349,319,2560,5565,1736,1929,5366,1930,1858,320,738],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-no-heat-2014","tag-aubergine-kidney-bean","tag-composting-toilet","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-ground-floor","tag-kindling","tag-les-guis","tag-moving-stones","tag-no-heat","tag-tidying-up","tag-wood-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}