{"id":380,"date":"2011-11-07T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-06-20T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T11:01:40","slug":"what-a-depressing-miserable-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Monday 7th November 2011 &#8211; WHAT A DEPRESSING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; miserable day this has been!<\/p>\n<p>I woke up to a hanging cloud stuck on the mountain this morning. It was enough to make me turn over and go back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>And so when I did finally heave myself out of the stinking pit it was still there. And it&#8217;s been there all day and not moved an inch. And it&#8217;s still there even now. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been no solar energy in the barn, and about 4 amp-hours here in the house. Winter is definitely here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111026.jpg\" alt=\"anemometer kwikstage scaffolding pointing stone wall les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>The batteries have gone flat on the anemometer on the house, and so that was the cue for me to get up on the roof and take it down. <\/p>\n<p>I then made a framework bracket out of aluminium and put the new one up on the side of the house. Not that I needed to bother because the wind that we have received here today can be measured in minutes. A far cry from the 20 hours of wind the other day.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, despite the grey damp conditions I carried on pointing the side of the house. It&#8217;ll take ages to dry of course in this weather but at least it won&#8217;t be freezing and so it will have the time to dry out. It&#8217;s important that it&#8217;s properly dry before the frost gets to it. <\/p>\n<p>I did quite a lot, looking at it when I finished, and another two good days might see it finished if I am lucky and the weather holds out.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>At the Anglo-French group tonight, I had a good chat to Bill. It seems that this house repair stuff is getting to be contagious as this week he&#8217;s restarted work on his house. <\/p>\n<p>Good for him!\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Although it did remind me of the story about the small boy at school who was asked to write a sentence containing the word &#8220;contagious&#8221;. And so he wrote &#8220;our neighbour went out to mow the lawn yesterday and my dad says that it will take the contagious to finish it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get my coat<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-380 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='380' data-nonce='3f4a5a8f9e' 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-380 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-380 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='380' data-nonce='3f4a5a8f9e' 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-380 unlc'>-1<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-380 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; miserable day this has been! I woke up to a hanging cloud stuck on the mountain this morning. It was enough to make me turn over and go back to sleep. And so when I did finally heave myself out of the stinking pit it was still there. And it&#8217;s been there all day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[504,4507,1616,258],"tags":[7436,382,5398,2560,5565,716,5366,1731,8857,745,286],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-dudgeon","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-anemometer","tag-anglo-french-group","tag-bill-dudgeon","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-hanging-cloud","tag-les-guis","tag-lie-in","tag-new-anemometer","tag-pointing","tag-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8129,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}