{"id":605,"date":"2011-02-07T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-05-14T06:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T06:37:22","slug":"im-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Monday 7th February 2011 &#8211; I&#8217;m still here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been struck down by a thunderbolt for working on the Sabbath, and I haven&#8217;t been a victim of Extraordinary Rendition during the night for daring to criticise the Septics either. Mind you, I had a really uncomfortable night and didn&#8217;t sleep too well &#8211; my guilty conscience obviously &#8211; and I&#8217;m going to bed as soon as I press &#8220;send&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon though, I had to pop out to see my notaire about getting the apartment paperwork together. And she sent me off to get a tax clearance certificate, but of course the tax office is closed in the afternoons so that didn&#8217;t work out as planned and I need to do that tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I\u00a0have the makings of a beautiful bathroom now &#8211; not quite finished but the walls are all grouted, there&#8217;s a sink, there are new taps on the bath and on the sink, and there is central heating again. Tomorrow it will have a new floor, some wallpaper, and be painted if we are lucky, and then we can move the washing machine in there.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a bedroom that is painted now, and there&#8217;s a radiator fitted too. And I may well have time to start on the flooring tomorrow as well. But fitting the radiator was exciting &#8211; the connector broke as we were coupling it up, so we fitted a spare valve but that meant a trip to Brico for an adapter, and then another trip to Brico for a longer connector for the valve.<\/p>\n<p>It was after 20:00 when we finished, and we are all exhausted. And not surprising too. It was a hard day&#8217;s work. I just hope that I can manage to press &#8220;send&#8221; before I &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. 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Mind you, I had a really uncomfortable night and didn&#8217;t sleep too well &#8211; my guilty conscience obviously &#8211; and I&#8217;m going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,6777,3,4507,787,330],"tags":[1184,323,6773,1673,6775,199,3542,1302,1712,2560,5430,261,352],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-brico","category-brussels","category-eric-hall-2","category-expo","category-liz_terry-messenger","tag-bathroom","tag-bedroom","tag-behets-wydemans","tag-belgium-2","tag-brico","tag-brussels-2","tag-central-heating","tag-crash-out","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-expo","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-notaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}