{"id":6030,"date":"2011-05-13T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T23:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2016-05-17T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:08:08","slug":"friday-13th-may-2011-its-been-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6030","title":{"rendered":"Friday 13th May 2011 – It’s been a long time …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"breaking<\/a>.. since I’ve had one of these. It was one of those rare nights that they call a nuit blanche<\/i> around here where I didn’t go to sleep at all. And I’m not quite sure why either, because I had a busy day yesterday too.<\/p>\n

And so I sat in the window, reading a book to pass the time and at approximately 04:45 the sun started to come up, so I took a photo of the breaking dawn. I then went back to reading until breakfast time.<\/p>\n

It’s been absolutely years since I’ve had one of those.
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Today I’ve spent most of the afternoon on the phone. Katherine has sent a parcel back from Canada and it’s gone missing. The Canadian Postal Service’s website is useless and the telephone system is one of those digitalised ones where it is not possible to speak to a human, and it tells you nothing that the website doesn’t tell you.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m not one to take that kind of thing lying down and after many struggles I ended up speaking to the Personal Assistant of Rob Merrifield, who is the Canadian Government Minister for Posts and Telecommunications. We had a lengthy chat and this evening I’ve received a mail from her to say that someone from the Canadian Postal Service will be in touch with me. <\/p>\n

We shall see, of course, because I have heard all of this before, but the only way to deal with incompetence and obfuscation is to go to the top. Once a few Government ministers have had their ears bent by a few dissatisfied customers, things might change. <\/p>\n

Mind you, I’m not holding my breath. It’s not like the time that the lavatory attendants closed the public conveniences on Crewe Bus Station, to the inconvenience of everyone. But I didn’t take it lying down – I stood up and went over their heads.<\/p>\n

\"home<\/a>Now that I’ve been to the sawmill at St Gervais d’Auvergne I can crack on with the balloon frame greenhouse and I spent the rest of the day cutting the wood ready for assembling the framework. <\/p>\n

It’s coming on quite nicely now, and the net job will be to give it a couple of coats of the LIDL wood treatment, but that’s not for today. <\/p>\n

So after finishing off the framework for the greenhouse I came in and started tidying up. I have a caller tomorrow – someone who wants to sell me some solar panels so that I can sell electricity to the EDF. I hate these canvassers.
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