{"id":490,"date":"2011-06-12T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=490"},"modified":"2017-07-20T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:31:25","slug":"weve-done-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 12th June 2011 – WE’VE DONE IT NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that Terry and I have been hunting for the last couple of years for a decent mini-digger. We’ve made all kinds of enquiries but the end result always was that we could never find anything that we wanted.<\/p>\n

In the end we decided that we would have to pay more than we wanted and buy something newer, but that never worked either. <\/p>\n

That is, until today. <\/p>\n

I went to Bacup to see a digger, a 2007 Takeuchi and while it was dearer than we were ever expecting to pay, in the end we’ve bitten the bullet and gone for it, faute de mieux<\/em> – in the absence of anything better. <\/p>\n

The cash will be transferred over on Monday and I’m picking it up on Wednesday night after I collect my new trailer.<\/p>\n

Did I tell you about that?<\/p>\n

\"caliburn<\/a>And so last night after dropping off Caroline I had a pleasant drive around the back of Manchester, Rawtenstall, Rossendale and all of that.<\/p>\n

I found a nice quiet lay-by in the pitch-dark somewhere up on the moors between Burnley and Bacup and settled down for a nice, quiet sleep.<\/p>\n

And a nice quiet sleep it was too. I didn’t feel a thing.
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\"caliburn<\/a>Pretty windswept it was too up on this hilltop, as I was to discover when I finally awoke.<\/p>\n

And that’s hardly surprising, given the glorious view. That was Burnley down there in the valley on the previous photo and on this photo, there’s a wind farm for you to admire.<\/p>\n

So a nice drive on into Bacup where I met this digger guy, who took me to see it in Accrington where it was digging out someone’s footings.
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Once I’d recovered from the shock of committing myself to spending all of this money, I went to Preston – or rather, the Tickled Trout in Salmesbury – to see Sandra.<\/p>\n

We had a really good chat about one thing and another and It’s nice to learn that in OUSA – the Open University Students Association – things are carrying on just as I left them. <\/p>\n

Chaos, panic, disorder – it’s all still going on.<\/p>\n

This evening I’m on the M1 at Tibshelf Services. I’m moving off in a minute to find somewhere to bed down for the night as I need to be in Ilkeston early in the morning.<\/p>\n

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