{"id":399,"date":"2011-10-19T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=399"},"modified":"2017-06-08T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:53:08","slug":"theres-something-really-so-satisfying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 19th October 2011 &#8211; THERE&#8217;S SOMETHING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1110\/1110090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1110\/1110090.jpg\" alt=\"repairing stone wall collapsed lean to les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>&#8230; really so satisfying about finishing a job that you started. And seeing as I started on this back in 2002 (well, sort-of, although I didn&#8217;t really get going until last summer), it&#8217;s high time as well.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve finally topped out the wall at the end of the lean-to, as you can see in the pic. It took about three buckets full of stones,2 buckets full of gravel and about 4 buckets full of lime mortar, as well as about 3 hours of work. <\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8217;ve picked up an enormous lime burn on my left thumb and it isn&#8217;t half painful. I&#8217;ve tried soaking it in water but it still hurts.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>So when I finished the cementing I tidied up in there and that&#8217;s a first isn&#8217;t it? And then I went down the garden and found one of the sheets of corrugated iron and put that on over where I&#8217;ve been working, to keep the rain off because we&#8217;ve had 15.5mm of that today. <\/p>\n<p>And I have to say it &#8211; I spent 10 minutes just looking at the wall. I&#8217;m really impressed with how it came out and, of course, we&#8217;ll have an earthquake tomorrow so it will all fall down again &#8211; you just wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>As for the weather, well it&#8217;s rained on and off for most of the day and the temperature has plummeted. It&#8217;s just 3.7 \u00b0C outside right now. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s snowing in Germany and snow has also been seen in Scotland and on high ground in the North of England. This is early and I don&#8217;t quite like the sound of it at all. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-399 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='399' data-nonce='9527a85c38' 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-399 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-399 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='399' data-nonce='9527a85c38' 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-399 unlc'>-2<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-399 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; really so satisfying about finishing a job that you started. And seeing as I started on this back in 2002 (well, sort-of, although I didn&#8217;t really get going until last summer), it&#8217;s high time as well. Yes, I&#8217;ve finally topped out the wall at the end of the lean-to, as you can see in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[7309,1237,2560,5565,423,5366,8818,286],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-collapsed-lean-to","tag-corrugated-iron","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-lime-burn","tag-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}