{"id":3771,"date":"2014-12-26T00:47:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2017-07-07T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T06:11:14","slug":"thursday-25th-december-2014-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3771","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 25th December 2014 &#8211; MERRY CHRISTMAS &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to all my readers. And I shan&#8217;t make any wisecracks about the walls of the public conveniences on Crewe Bus Station because I say the same thing each year and you must be sick to death of it by now.<\/p>\n<p>During the night I was in Rome being fleeced by an Italian shopkeeper, and having to sort out a few kids, some of whom were mine and the rest of whom were kids that I was looking after, and they were having a fight in a hotel room and the police had been called.<\/p>\n<p>I was awake early this morning but managed to stay in bed until about 08:30 &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t in anything of a rush to leave my stinking pit as I&#8217;m sure that you can imagine. And after breakfast, I did precisely zilch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched a few films though. First up was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00EV58Q1A\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B00EV58Q1A&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=erichall-21&#038;linkId=6WXI2CZSO7AVHBYU\" target=\"_blank\">The Mask of Dimitrios<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=erichall-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B00EV58Q1A\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> starring Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet. Lorre is one of my favourite actors and this film continues the joint roles that the two of them played in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00004TLBB\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B00004TLBB&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=erichall-21&#038;linkId=3XNSXPFHNPPZ3S5A\" target=\"_blank\">The Maltese Falcon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=erichall-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B00004TLBB\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. That&#8217;s a film that I can watch time after time after time, and having seen the Mask of Dimitrios, that will be the same.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also watched the first couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/gp\/product\/B0014JKM9U\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1642&#038;creative=19458&#038;creativeASIN=B0014JKM9U&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=legu-21\" target=\"_blank\">Fant\u00f4mas<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-fr.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=legu-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=8&#038;a=B0014JKM9U\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> films. Louis de Fun\u00e8s is my favourite actor but occasionally he has a tendency to over-act and these films are not amongst his best. But still, I found a box set of the Tantomas films going cheap<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not eaten much today either. I have plenty to nibble on so I&#8217;ve been attacking all of that. I even found a bag of Bombay mix from I don&#8217;t know when and that tasted wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>And do you know what? It&#8217;s more of the same tomorrow. I&#8217;ve absolutely no intention of going anywhere or doing anything at all. Which is probably just as well as when I went out just now to take the stats, there was the start of a heavy frost. Everywhere is cooling down again and there&#8217;s snow forecast for Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-3771 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='3771' data-nonce='c22439e29e' 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-3771 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-3771 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='3771' data-nonce='c22439e29e' 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-3771 unlc'>-2<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-3771 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to all my readers. And I shan&#8217;t make any wisecracks about the walls of the public conveniences on Crewe Bus Station because I say the same thing each year and you must be sick to death of it by now. During the night I was in Rome being fleeced by an Italian shopkeeper, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,258],"tags":[3208,891,212,2560,528,5565,801,3555,5366,1731,529,3207,3204,3205,3206],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-bombay-mix","tag-crewe-bus-station","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-fantomas","tag-france","tag-httpwww-amazon-co-uk","tag-httpwww-amazon-fr","tag-les-guis","tag-lie-in","tag-louis-de-funes","tag-maltese-falcon","tag-mask-of-dimitrios","tag-peter-lorre","tag-sidney-greenstreet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}