{"id":570,"date":"2011-03-17T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=570"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:50:30","slug":"it-all-depends-on-if-you-are-an-optimist-or-a-pessimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 17th March 2011 &#8211; It all depends on if you are an optimist or a pessimist &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as to whether you would say that Caliburn is half-empty or half-full. And so seeing as I am in the process of unloading him, I&#8217;ll say that he is half-empty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1103\/1103026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1103\/1103026.jpg\" alt=\"ford cortina 2000E estate les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>So after my incredibly early start this morning, I managed to get the Ford Cortina 2000E estate off the trailer and parked up at the side of the lane. That was quite interesting too but I took the HT lead off to make sure that the engine didn&#8217;t fire up while I was bumping it off the trailer with the starter. We&#8217;ve had enough issues with unexpected firings-up of engines while manoeuvring around tight corners on the starter motor just recently &#8211; we don&#8217;t want any more. <\/p>\n<p>And once I started up the engine it promptly ran out of fuel. But some nice clean new petrol doesn&#8217;t half make it run easier.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>Once the 2000E was safely parked up I dismantled the room in which I lived for 2 years &#8211; the little lean-to. The fitted bed and shelves have all gone and once it was empty it had a good brush and a clean.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I had to go into Pionsat for a few things and on my return I started on the emptying of Caliburn. The boxes will be stacked in the little lean-to that I have just cleaned and which will eventually be transformed into the office.<\/p>\n<p>Next plan once I&#8217;ve emptied Caliburn is to sort out the barn, tow the old caravan body outside and burn it (I was going to keep it but I need the space now) and put the furniture from the Brussels apartment in there until I can move it into the house.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have my work cut out.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-570 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='570' data-nonce='1421549def' 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-570 lc'>+3<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-570 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='570' data-nonce='1421549def' 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-570 unlc'>-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-570 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as to whether you would say that Caliburn is half-empty or half-full. And so seeing as I am in the process of unloading him, I&#8217;ll say that he is half-empty. So after my incredibly early start this morning, I managed to get the Ford Cortina 2000E estate off the trailer and parked up at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,281,53],"tags":[5191,1788,199,5381,442,1735,2560,5430,1199,5565,6714,423,5366,5370,255,320],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-old-cars","category-pionsat","tag-2000e","tag-barn","tag-brussels-2","tag-caliburn","tag-caravan","tag-emptying-caliburn","tag-eric-hall","tag-expo","tag-ford-cortina","tag-france","tag-ifor-williams-trailer","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-old-cars","tag-pionsat-2","tag-tidying-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}