{"id":375,"date":"2011-11-12T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=375"},"modified":"2017-06-21T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:57:31","slug":"im-going-to-bed-in-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 12th November 2011 – I’M GOING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to bed in a second.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m thoroughly exhausted and I don’t know why. Probably the early start this morning had something to do with it. <\/p>\n

Up with the alarm waiting for a phone call for this photo safari thing, and it turns out that I had not been patched in to an earlier e-mail circular and so I’d missed the point of this trip out. But anyway it didn’t take us long to do what it was that we had to do.<\/p>\n

\"motorised<\/a>This afternoon, seeing as how the weather was so beautiful I went to Commentry to do my shopping there. <\/p>\n

And while I was in the car park of the Les Bonnes Affaires I was buzzed by one of these motorised hang-glider things passing low over the town. I was trying to think where he might have come from because there’s no suitable cliff in the vicinity off which to leap into the ether – unless he can run with his feet fast enough to make a clean take-off. <\/p>\n

And I wonder what the rules might be about low-flying over a built-up area like this
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\"badly<\/a>While I had the camera out, I noticed another example of poorly-sighted solar panels – over there on the roof of that bungalow. Facing full west they are, so they don’t receive a glimmer of sunlight until early afternoon.<\/p>\n

These “become a producer of solar energy and sell to the electricity board” high-pressure salesmen have struck again. It’s hardly surprising that the industry has such a bad name when they do things like this.
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I did make a couple of interesting discoveries though. And they were both at Bricomarche. <\/p>\n

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  1. they have a huge pile of water-resistant 8mm plywood at \u20ac39 a sheet of 2.5×1.25 metres. It’s expensive all right but it’s what I need for the roof of the lean-to and they do have it in stock.<\/li>\n
  2. they also have the stove that I want for downstairs. A woodstove with an oven and with a central heating boiler built in – for \u20ac1499 too. That’s exactly what I want, because the sun will heat the water in the summer and I need something for heating it in the winter. If this does everything, it will be perfect. I can even do cooking with it as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But the real reason for going to Commentry was that with the weather being so nice I could nip down the road to Neris-les-Bains for a swim. It was glorious in there – the water just right and the pool quite warm as well. Shame it can’t be like that all the time.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n

    \"fcpsh<\/a>At the footy tonight the 3rd XI match was cancelled as the opposition couldn’t raise a team, and the first XI went down 2-1 to a team that they had played off the park, something of which they seem to be in a habit of doing<\/p>\n

    I’d tell you much more about the game but enough of this for now. I’ve fallen asleep twice already while typing as far as this, and if I don’t get a move on I’ll be ……..THUD THUD<\/strong><\/p>\n

    …….ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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    -1<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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