{"id":6550,"date":"2016-06-29T20:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2016-06-29T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:58:52","slug":"wednesday-29th-june-2016-my-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6550","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 29th June 2016 &#8211; MY DOCTOR &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at the hospital this evening came up with the best comment to date about the UK&#8217;s referendum result. he reckons that they should find all of the tugboats in Europe to tow the UK out into the middle of the Atlantic and dump it there. And I can&#8217;t say that I disagree with him either. We are both of the opinion that the UK&#8217;s method of negotiation is to send in a gunboat &#8211; tactics that might have worked 150 years ago but are quite simply laughable today. The last time that the UK fought a war on its own, it took them 3 years to defeat a handful of undisciplined and untrained Dutch farmers in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>So having put the world to rights, I had my body scan. They stuck me on a table, clamped some headphones on my ears and stuck some kind of diving helmet on my head. Claustrophobia wan&#8217;t in it. I had to undergo this scan for about half an hour and I spent all of this time in that time-travel portal with my eyes tight shut.<\/p>\n<p>I left here at 19:00 and arrived back at just about 22:00, having grabbed a bag of chips on the way. And I won&#8217;t be going to that <em>fritkot<\/em> again. They weren&#8217;t so good and the service was a little chaotic.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was awake again quite early, 06:30 to be precise, having had one or two trips down the corridor. And I ended up chatting to someone on the internet which meant that I didn&#8217;t go down to breakfast until 09:15.<\/p>\n<p>And despite the better day yesterday, we had a rainstorm through the night and a little bit during the day.I went off to do a little shopping at lunchtime &#8211; to the Delhaize in town where I bought my baguette, some bananas and a small bag of muesli seeing as how I&#8217;ve run out. I won&#8217;t buy a big bag until I know what the breakfast in this new place is like.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bio shop in the Vismarkt in the town centre and so I went for a recce while I was out. There&#8217;s a huge selection of vegan stuff in there, including the sliced vegan cheese of the type that I used to buy in Brussels. It&#8217;s useful to know that the stuff is quite handy in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Updating the blog, I&#8217;m now up to the 26th August 2010 &#8211; well-ahead of where I want to be. But I don&#8217;t expect that I&#8217;ll be doing much over the next couple of days while I clean up here and organise my moving to the new pad. <\/p>\n<p>And on this subject, Melanie lent me a needle and thread so that I could sew my bag back together. I have a cheap green bag that I use for going shopping &#8211; a bag that I received as a free gift in the pharmacie in St Gervais d&#8217;Auvergne &#8211; and the stitching had started to come apart. Now it&#8217;s a bit more secure and I hope that it will hold out.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m off to bed to see how I sleep tonight. The long walk to the hospital and back might have done me some good in that respect and I hope that it&#8217;s tired me out enough.  <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-6550 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='6550' data-nonce='aad879d56a' 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-6550 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-6550 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6550' data-nonce='aad879d56a' 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-6550 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-6550 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at the hospital this evening came up with the best comment to date about the UK&#8217;s referendum result. he reckons that they should find all of the tugboats in Europe to tow the UK out into the middle of the Atlantic and dump it there. 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