{"id":6228,"date":"2010-04-23T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2016-06-09T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:45:43","slug":"friday23rd-april-2010-ill-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6228","title":{"rendered":"Friday23rd April 2010 &#8211; I&#8217;ll be back &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on the road in about 10 minutes. And I&#8217;ll be very late getting away tonight, much later than I wanted to be, but then again, a lot has happened.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly we had yet another &#8220;end of an era&#8221;. Long-time followers of this organ will recall the white LDV that I bought in 2002 and which ran for ever once we put a new engine into it but which was defeated by rust and lack of spare parts. It&#8217;s been sitting outside the apartment at &#8220;Expo&#8221; for three years since Caliburn came along and everyone was moaning about it, so I had someone come along and take it away. <\/p>\n<p>A vehicle dismantler in Brussels has an LDV and he can&#8217;t find spares for it either so he gave me \u20ac100 for it, which I reckoned was excellent value.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning it out discovered hordes of goodies that I had forgotten all about too as well as a full set of tools, so it was quite profitable all told.<\/p>\n<p>After that I went for lunch with Mike, who is doing my old job as chair of the Open University Student Association&#8217;s North European Revolutionary Forces. And I had quite a laugh as on the way there I saw a billboard saying &#8220;You have won the lottery. Where will you be dining now?&#8221; Well, I had effectively won the lottery with disposing of the LDV and I was taking Mike to a <i>fritkot<\/i>. My generosity knows no bounds.<\/p>\n<p>And so, after paying all of the bills and so forth, I cleaned up Expo just a little bit, loaded up Caliburn, and hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>I also found some time to call in at the IKEA Anderlecht (where I was one of several persons involved in an argument on the car park) for one or two things that I need at home.<\/p>\n<p>And so, all in all, it is going to be a very late departure and I&#8217;m not planning on making it all the way home in one go. After all, I&#8217;ve had quite a busy day.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-6228 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='6228' data-nonce='6c388be4b6' 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-6228 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-6228 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6228' data-nonce='6c388be4b6' 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-6228 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-6228 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on the road in about 10 minutes. And I&#8217;ll be very late getting away tonight, much later than I wanted to be, but then again, a lot has happened. Firstly we had yet another &#8220;end of an era&#8221;. Long-time followers of this organ will recall the white LDV that I bought in 2002 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7069,162,3,4507,787,1784,2370,655],"tags":[7071,1673,199,5381,2560,5430,5329,5599,3168,6940,7070,5406,5388,320],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anderlecht","category-belgium","category-brussels","category-eric-hall-2","category-expo","category-ikea","category-ikea-brussels","category-michael","tag-anderlecht","tag-belgium-2","tag-brussels-2","tag-caliburn","tag-eric-hall","tag-expo","tag-fritkot","tag-ikea","tag-ldv","tag-mike-deverell","tag-nerf","tag-open-university","tag-ousa","tag-tidying-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","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=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}