{"id":29,"date":"2013-01-16T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=29"},"modified":"2013-01-16T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:24:00","slug":"we-are-snowed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"We are snowed in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a relaxing weekend doing not very much at all, Monday was when I started back to work. C\u00e9cile helped me reorganise my attic a little, for which I was very grateful, and then I started work on the floor of the shower room.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all completed now, at least as far as the first layer of flooring goes, and I&#8217;ve even managed to put a piece down outside the shower room to see how it looks on the floor. And what is so disappointing is that the extra packet that I had to buy, after I had managed (and didn&#8217;t that take a while?) to mate up with the previous lot, has gone in perfectly and it looks really impressive. It almost made me wish to tear up what I had already done and start again.<\/p>\n<p>After the Groupe Anglo-Fran\u00e7ais, I went round to C\u00e9cile&#8217;s, and that&#8217;s where the fun begins. She lives almost at the top of the Font Nanaud, the hill here that is the highest point around, at 2300 feet down a long, isolated lane. And that was when the snow began to fall quite heavily (the flurries on Sunday and Monday were nothing) and we are now snowed in. <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mz-7Umy9oho\/UPbs8DW-oNI\/AAAAAAAACrY\/mLDeF9Ef_vo\/s1600\/1301015.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mz-7Umy9oho\/UPbs8DW-oNI\/AAAAAAAACrY\/mLDeF9Ef_vo\/s320\/1301015.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m bothered because not only is C\u00e9cile a charming host, she is a vegan and also quite a film buff with an enormous collection of DVDs, such that puts mine to shame. And so here in the relative warmth we&#8217;ve spent some time watching films.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also been out for a few walks too. Yesterday it was rather difficult as you can tell because there was quite a heavy snow falling for most of the day. Nevertheless, best foot forward and all that and we had a good ramble out into the wilderness and then into the forest where we took a startled deer rather by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say though that I wasn&#8217;t sorry to make it back into the warm and dry. It was rather grim out there as I&#8217;m sure that you can imagine by looking at the photograph. Still, cutting wood with a saw is an excellent way to keep warm in the kind of temperatures that we were experiencing.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-9q8NpiFWqpc\/UPbvGWAACXI\/AAAAAAAACsY\/Jr3IONRI1O8\/s1600\/1301017.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-9q8NpiFWqpc\/UPbvGWAACXI\/AAAAAAAACsY\/Jr3IONRI1O8\/s320\/1301017.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today it finally managed to stop snowing and in fact in the afternoon some strange golden thing amde some kind of appearance in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted us to go for a walk in the other direction where there is an old fish pond or millpond or something. And that really looked very pleasant in the snow. What a glorious afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted me to have a go digging Caliburn out of a snowdrift and we eventually made it down to the end of the lane without too many difficulties, but after a great deal of effort.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to see what tomorrow might bring. If it can hold off snowing for a day or two we might even be properly mobile again. You never know.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-29 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='29' data-nonce='8a8e36643a' 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-29 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-29 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='29' data-nonce='8a8e36643a' 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-29 unlc'>-5<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-29 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a relaxing weekend doing not very much at all, Monday was when I started back to work. C\u00e9cile helped me reorganise my attic a little, for which I was very grateful, and then I started work on the floor of the shower room. That&#8217;s all completed now, at least as far as the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}