{"id":6303,"date":"2016-06-21T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T19:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2016-06-21T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T19:06:15","slug":"tuesday-21st-june-2016-you-wouldnt-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6303","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 21st June 2016 &#8211; YOU WOULDN&#8217;T BELIEVE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; that it&#8217;s the Summer Solstice today. It&#8217;s been a cold, miserable, grey wet day today from start to finish, just like a grim February day.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s not quite true. The rain did ease off for an hour or so round about midday &#8211; just the right time for me to nip out and buy my <em>baguette<\/em> and a few other bits and pieces for lunch. I wasn&#8217;t back all that long before the heavens opened again and that&#8217;s how it stayed. Many people have asked why I don&#8217;t get out and about and go for much more of an exploration, but in this weather, who can blame me?<\/p>\n<p>I had a bad night again. It was well after midnight before I managed to doze off, despite how tired I must have been after walking to and from the hospital. And I had the odd trip down the corridor too but I was wide-awake by 05:40. I did manage to stay in bed until about 07:00 before I made my start to the day, and I&#8217;ve had a little crash-out this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>So what have I been doing today then.<\/p>\n<p>The short (and the long) answer to this is that I&#8217;ve spent most of the day working on my blog, doing a lot of the updating. I&#8217;m well into the month of May 2010 and I&#8217;m finding that the weather back then was just the same as it is right now &#8211; to wit cold and wet. We even had a snowstorm on 5th May 2010 when we were all on our way home from Clermont Ferrand. <\/p>\n<p>For tea tonight I&#8217;ve been finishing off the mixture of stuff that I had left over from Friday night.It tasted just as peculiar tonight as it did then, but it wasn&#8217;t unpleasant. <\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese girl was in the kitchen too so I had a good chat to her. Unfortunately, she didn&#8217;t seem to be too interested in talking about life in Vietnam and that was what I really wanted to know. People of my generation were brought up with all kinds of tales about life there either in the Communist North or the corrupt American-backed South,and the unification of the country stopped our habitual flow of news. I was keen to have an up-to-date opinion, but it looks as if it won&#8217;t be any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>And so tomorrow, I&#8217;m off gallivanting again. June and her husband are passing by on their way back to Germany and I&#8217;ve invited them to the <em>fritkot<\/em> for lunch. You can&#8217;t pass by Belgium and not visit a <em>fritkot<\/em>, can you? <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-6303 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='6303' data-nonce='e4b5834b25' 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-6303 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-6303 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6303' data-nonce='e4b5834b25' 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-6303 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-6303 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; that it&#8217;s the Summer Solstice today. It&#8217;s been a cold, miserable, grey wet day today from start to finish, just like a grim February day. Well, that&#8217;s not quite true. The rain did ease off for an hour or so round about midday &#8211; just the right time for me to nip out 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":[162,4507,3371],"tags":[4788,6723,1673,1104,5275,2482,2560,5329,389,4544,5918,7126,286,1885,1163,7125],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-eric-hall-2","category-leuven","tag-bad-night","tag-baguette","tag-belgium-2","tag-blog","tag-clermont-ferrand","tag-early-start","tag-eric-hall","tag-fritkot","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-june-w","tag-leuven","tag-phoung","tag-rainstorm","tag-solstice","tag-summer","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","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=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6304,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}