{"id":3647,"date":"2014-11-13T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T22:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2017-07-06T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:19:29","slug":"thursday-13th-november-2014-i-had-a-day-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 13th November 2014 &#8211; I HAD A DAY OFF TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary had been talking about going to the new IKEA down at Clermont Ferrand and so we had decided to go there together. Today was the day, so I was up and about quite early and went to pick her up.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived there at about 10:20 and while IKEA is easy to see, it&#8217;s nothing like as easy to find the entrance to the car park. Nevertheless, after a mystery tour around the Michelin factory there we managed it.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to be there much earlier but it would have been a waste of effort as the place doesn&#8217;t open until 10:00. I&#8217;ll have to bear that in mind. And who should we bump into there but another Eric whom we know. He&#8217;s the presenter of the <em>chanson francaise<\/em> programmes on Radio Arverne and they are recorded after our sessions there. Radio work doesn&#8217;t pay, of course, and so he&#8217;s working there at IKEA to pay the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary vowed before we went in that she wasn&#8217;t going to buy anything. Of course I have heard this a thousand times before and this time was no different that any other. I spent about \u20ac40,about half of which went on a new dinner service. It was part of the reduced goods on offer and it certainly looks the business. I&#8217;m quite impressed with it as it is exactly what I was seeking.<\/p>\n<p>We had lunch and then went to the Auchan to swap a defective temperature gauge and to do a pile of shopping, as well as buying some diesel as it was only \u20ac1:21 per litre. The Auchan doesn&#8217;t sell the light green bottles of gas so we had to go to the Carrefour at Menetrol. I think I mentioned that the gas that powers the cooker in the verandah is getting low and with the temperature still quite reasonable and with no fire up here yet, I&#8217;m still cooking down there.<\/p>\n<p>I rescued my roofing ladder from Rosemary and we had a coffee and spent a good couple of hours putting the world to rights.<\/p>\n<p>There won&#8217;t be much done tomorrow either as I have several errands to run and a new toy to pick up. I wish I could have a good few weeks non-stop on this perishing house.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-3647 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='3647' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' 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-3647 lc'>+5<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-3647 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='3647' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' 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-3647 unlc'>-6<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-3647 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary had been talking about going to the new IKEA down at Clermont Ferrand and so we had decided to go there together. Today was the day, so I was up and about quite early and went to pick her up. We arrived there at about 10:20 and while IKEA is easy to see, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,22,4507,1616,1784,258,2248,1670],"tags":[5396,5360,5275,2560,5565,5599,5366,640,1869,263,3127,288],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auchan","category-clermont-ferrand","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-ikea","category-les-guis","category-menetrol-2","category-rosemary-2","tag-auchan","tag-carrefour","tag-clermont-ferrand","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-ikea","tag-les-guis","tag-menetrol","tag-michelin","tag-radio-arverne","tag-roof-ladder","tag-rosemary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}