{"id":337,"date":"2012-01-08T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-06-25T09:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T09:04:32","slug":"ive-been-spending-my-money-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 7th January 2012 – I’VE BEEN SPENDING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… my money again.<\/p>\n

And it’s not as if I have too much to spend either, but there you go. <\/p>\n

In Carrefour in St Eloy les Mines I spent a mere \u20ac12 or so, most of which went on a jar of coffee seeing as I seem to be rather down on that at the moment, and won’t that be a catastrophe if I run out? <\/p>\n

In LIDL I spent \u20ac25 or something – with nothing much to show for it except some wire brushes for the angle grinder. I’ll always pick up a few packs of those when I see them. <\/p>\n

But there I met a couple of people whom I knew – some friends of Bill’s whom I had met at one of his soir\u00e9es<\/i>, and Jasper and his mum (who have featured previously in these pages) were also there.<\/p>\n

But then\u00a0 went to Cheze – the hardware shop where the Intermarch\u00e9 used to be when I first came here. <\/p>\n

The bread box was trashed in the hurricane so I need to make something new, and Cheze was the likeliest place to find some bits. I didn’t find what I wanted but I still spent \u20ac52 in there.<\/p>\n

Yes, it was sale time there and even more importantly, a clearance sale. There was a big bucket of hardware like door knobs, adjustible feet, special bolts and so on, at 50 centimes a pack. I had tons of stuff out of there. <\/p>\n

There was also a LED spotlight with a dusk-dawn sensor, powered by a solar panel, reduced to \u20ac8:00. That will make a handy work light or torch for when I’m down the garden late at night.<\/p>\n

\"low<\/a>Pride of place though went to this beautiful machine – a chop saw. <\/p>\n

I’ve been after a low-powered one of those for ages and I’ve hunted high and low but without success. But here at Cheze were three or four end-of-range chop saws, quite small and all rated at 1200 watts, all for the price of \u20ac34 each.<\/p>\n

At that price I just had to have one, especially as there’s a 1200-watt inverter winging its way to me in the post even as we speak. After all the time I spend chopping wood by hand, and how easy it was doing the tongue-and-grooving back at Expo when I had the battery-powered one. <\/p>\n

The width of the blade and the instability of the machines means that they aren’t ideal for precision work, but where precision cutting isn’t 100% essential, this wil ldo just fine, so I hope that it does what it says that it will do.
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BUt I didn’t stay out long. It’s rained non-stop today, all grey and drizzly and depressing. I took advantage of the morning by writing the additional text for the radio programmes we shall be recording at the end of the month, and I’ve watched the odd film or two. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m going to start my presentation for the Trans-Labrador Highway. <\/p>\n

I have to do that on Feb 24th, so no time like the present to get going.<\/p>\n

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… my money again. And it’s not as if I have too much to spend either, but there you go. In Carrefour in St Eloy les Mines I spent a mere \u20ac12 or so, most of which went on a jar of coffee seeing as I seem to be rather down on that at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,59,4507,1616,258,46,54],"tags":[5398,5360,5293,3292,2560,5430,5565,1027,8912,5366,5286,3640,5307,286,5290,5311],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrefour","category-cheze","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-lidl","category-st-eloy-les-mines","tag-bill-dudgeon","tag-carrefour","tag-cheze","tag-chop-saw","tag-eric-hall","tag-expo","tag-france","tag-intermarche-2","tag-led-spotlight","tag-les-guis","tag-lidl","tag-mains-inverter","tag-radio-anglais","tag-rainstorm","tag-st-eloy-les-mines","tag-trans-labrador-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}