{"id":3956,"date":"2015-03-01T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2017-07-07T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:52:16","slug":"sunday-1st-march-2015-i-should-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 1st March 2015 – I SHOULD HAVE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… gone to Chamali\u00e8res this afternoon for the footy as FC Pionsat St Hilaire were replaying a postponed match from before the Winter Break. However, what with one thing or another, I couldn’t summon up the energy to hit the road.<\/p>\n

I had a nice lie-in though – 11:00 it was when I left my comfortable bed. And after breakfast I finished off the rock music notes for Radio Anglais and then started on the additional notes for the Radio Arverne broadcasts. This wasn’t as easy as it might have been, because April is one of these 5-week months where I have to write something random to fill in the extra week. <\/p>\n

I try to write something about French culture and history for those broadcasts, but my two little booklets couldn’t produce a single useful item that happened in that week in the past and I ended up having to use the internet to search out something. As it happens, that week in April is the anniversary of the date of an attempted coup d’etat<\/em> against the French government in 1961, and while maybe the French don’t like to talk too much about it, it’s quite an interesting historical event for foreigners, for the coup d’etat<\/em> hinged upon several other events in French history about which we foreigners know very little.<\/p>\n

I’ve not progressed very far though because I’ve been more interested in reading rather than writing, but I’m hoping that I can find half an hour or so tomorrow morning to do some more.<\/p>\n

I was on my travels in the night too. I’d actually bought another apartment in Brussels – one that was really nice and comfortable and with a beautiful west-facing balcony where I could sit in the sunset. One of the prime reasons for doing this was to keep in touch with the girl who was working at my solicitors as I had a little crush on her. <\/p>\n

In fact, there was a group of us travelling somewhere and we had to meet up at a car park on the edge of town. I resolved to walk to the car park as I knew that she was taking her car and I intended to blag a ride with her. I turned down a couple of offers from other people and sure enough, she turned up but in another car driven by a friend. They agreed to give me a lift, but the girl sat in the back (which spoiled all my plans) and I sat in the front next to the driver.<\/p>\n

On arriving at our destination, we all left the car but across the square was a Citroen Traction Avant painted bright yellow. Of course, I had to go off and photograph it (it had turned into a Solex moped by this time) and I lost touch with this girl with whom I had been hoping to spend the day.<\/p>\n

Such is life when you travel on your nocturnal voyages.<\/p>\n

But was really was significant about today was that this was the first morning of the year when I recall hearing the birds chattering away early in the morning. Spring must be just around the corner.<\/p>\n

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