{"id":413,"date":"2011-10-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=413"},"modified":"2017-07-11T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T07:37:13","slug":"i-didnt-quite-manage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 5th October 2011 – I DIDN’T QUITE MANAGE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… the early start this morning. <\/p>\n

It was in fact 10:20 when I roused myself from the heaving pit but then again, I was still up working last night at 02:30. No danger of that tonight though – I’ve already crashed out twice and I’ll be off to bed in a second. <\/p>\n

So having breakfasted, I carried on with the match report from Sunday and that’s now on line<\/a>. All 48mb of it – I can’t half write some rubbish when I’m in the mood. But I’m going to have to make much more of an effort to keep it all up-to-date this season and not let it slide like I have been doing when I’ve been overtaken by events.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I attacked the second part of the wall on the lean-to. And I’ve cheated as well while building it up. It looks like a stone wall, that’s for sure. But it’s only the outer surfaces that are in stone, and then not very much of it either. <\/p>\n

\"stone<\/a>I’m just building up the front and the back of the wall with large flat stones laid on their edges, and then pouring a weak lightweight concrete mixture down in between them as a filler. That way, it can be done quickly, simply and effectively.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In fact I’ve made quite a bit of progress – much more than I thought that I would. And I would have made even more had I not leant a little too far over and knocked a large part of my wall into the next field.<\/p>\n

What was surprising though was how carried away I was by it all. The only reason that I stopped was that it went dark – 19:25 when I finished and it’s a long time since I’ve been so enthusiastic about what I’ve been doing.<\/p>\n

Other exciting developments today were that I had no less than FIVE phone calls in the period between 10:30 and 12:00. The result of some of those is that I have not one but TWO<\/b> companies sending representatives to see me – and at the same time too – to convince me to have solar panels on my roof. <\/p>\n

That will serve tham right. I can’t be doing with these cold-calling canvassers<\/p>\n

But it does mean that I have to spend tomorrow morning tidying up for a change. Neitzsche famously said that “out of chaos comes order” – but of course Neitzsche had been and gone long before I was ever about.<\/p>\n

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… the early start this morning. It was in fact 10:20 when I roused myself from the heaving pit but then again, I was still up working last night at 02:30. No danger of that tonight though – I’ve already crashed out twice and I’ll be off to bed in a second. So having breakfasted, […]<\/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":[7309,2560,5287,5565,389,423,5366,2658],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-collapsed-lean-to","tag-eric-hall","tag-football","tag-france","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-working-late"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}