{"id":4042,"date":"2015-04-01T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T22:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2017-07-07T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:14:55","slug":"wednesday-1st-april-2015-i-hadnt-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 1st April 2015 – I HADN’T FINISHED …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… with last night (or, rather, last night hadn’t finished with me). While I was boiling up the water in the gas cylinder in order to do the washing up before I went to bed, the gas ran out.<\/p>\n

Considering that i’ve been using it to make coffee throughout the winter and also to cook and to heat the washing-up water when I’ve not had the fire on, that’s not too bad. I’m quite happy with this.<\/p>\n

So this morning I had to boil up the coffee on the gas stove in the verandah (I later found the second cylinder of gas) for breakfast.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, I emptied the ground floor of the house. As far as I can tell, all of the wood offcuts have been taken out, sorted into type and then stacked onto the bread trays that I had put on the floor of the barn.<\/p>\n

The plasterboard offcuts too have been taken out and stacked in the barn now and we finally have some room in there. I’ve swept the floor as far as I could and the bit that I’ve done looks reaonably tidy. Tomorrow I’ll be carrying on the emptying and seeing where I can get to. <\/p>\n

Another job that I had to do was to empty the beichstuhl<\/em>, but that’s enough about that.<\/p>\n

Finally, here’s some interesting news. <\/p>\n

My friend Terry, who lives on the other side of the Combrailles, is an electrical engineer by trade but because his French isn’t good enough as yet, he works as a self-employed builder. Across the road from him lives a guy who is a maintenance engineer at the big steel mill at Les Ancizes, and he told Terry on Monday that the company had just take on two Portuguese engineers who don’t speak a word of French. <\/p>\n

On the basis of “if they can do it, so can I” and he sent in his CV.<\/p>\n

And the result?<\/p>\n

He starts on Monday. So well done to Terry!<\/p>\n

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