{"id":583,"date":"2011-03-03T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-07-01T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:53:03","slug":"ive-just-had-a-gorgeous-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 3rd March 2011 – I’ve just had a gorgeous tea ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A vegetable massala with rice and garlic naam. Terry had a chickem korma and liz had a vegetable biryani. Poppadoms, other naams, all kinds of stuff as well. A real Indian banquet from the takeaway in … errr … Folkestone. No point in letting a flying (or tunneling, even) visit to the UK go to waste.<\/p>\n

\"caliburn<\/a>So a nice early start to the Eurotunnel depot, blagging my way onto an earlier shuttle and I was in the Sainsbury’s with a plate of beans and chips before 09:00 UK time. <\/p>\n

As soon as Screwfix opened, I was there. Only half of the mastic we needed, one of the saws wasn’t in stock, most of everything else was there, but “the tile saw is only available on 7-day order. Come back next week”
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And so a frantic call to Terry back in Belgium and he tracked down an even more powerful tile cutter for just \u00a320 more – in Crawley! So seeing as I was halfway there, what’s another 80 miles between friends?<\/p>\n

It took three of us (me and the two guys in the shop) to load this machine into Caliburn.<\/p>\n

\"hastings<\/a>Once I’d organised that, I went to the seaside for lunch. A nice bag of chips (and malt vinegar) on the seafront at Hastings overlooking the ruins of the pier.<\/p>\n

After lunch, back to Ashford and the Tesco’s there for the pile of food shopping (you didn’t REALLY think that I had just come all this way for an industrial tile cutter and nothing else, did you?) and then to the Sainsbury’s at Folkestone again for whatever I couldn’t get at Tesco.
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Final job was the Indian takeaway and it’s a good job that the staff arrived early, otherwise I would have been pushing it to catch my train back. They cooked while I babysat their kids (the things I have to do to keep my staff happy) and then a thrash through the traffic onto the train, and a thrash back home.<\/p>\n

708 kilometres, a mere trifle you might think. It’s about the same distance as going back home again. But it was a lovely day out though, and the meal put the icing on the cake as it were.<\/p>\n

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