{"id":6887,"date":"2016-08-22T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:18:45","slug":"monday-22nd-august-2016-and-wasnt-that-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"Monday 22nd August 2016 – AND WASN’T THAT A WASTE OF TIME?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I managed to arrange two appointments this afternoon for visiting apartments. The first one was at 14:30 down the Kapicijnenvoer and I was there on time. The guy turned up, took one look at me and asked “are you a student?”
\n“Not at all” I replied
\n“I only let to students” he replied, returning to his car.
\nAnd yet nowhere on his advert was this mentioned and so I had “a few words” with him about him wasting my time.<\/p>\n

At 16:00 I had an appointment with an estate agent at a studio not too far from here. And I was on time there too. 10 minutes later I had a ‘phone call. “I’m sorry, Mr X has had something urgent come up. Can he arrange another appointment with you?”
\nAnd so I had a few words with them too about wasting my time.<\/p>\n

Mind you, it’s true that there’s not a lot of money to be earned from the letting of a studio. There’s much more money to be earned from letting or selling a house, so it’s not surprising that I’ve fallen to the bottom of the queue. But you can see what I mean about Belgium.<\/p>\n

I was in a bad humour too. I was still awake last night at 01:35. And for no good reason either – it wasn’t as if my new co-habitant disturbed me any. I just couldn’t drop off.<\/p>\n

But when I did finally drop off, I did set off on a few travels. First thing was something to do with a court case and I was cross-examining witnesses. Some barrister came up to me afterwards and offered me a place in his chambers – an offer that was quite interesting (and which rings a bell from an event that took place 25 years ago) but not one that I could take up properly due to the financial constraints that it called for during the period of training. A little later there was a scene where I was with a woman and we were doing something for a young boy who had come off the rails somehow.<\/p>\n

The 07:00 cacophony awoke me, and it was quite an impressive one this morning. Once I’d gathered my wits (which doesn’t take long these days) I went off for breakfast. And as I was parting, I was joined by my neighbour. I exchanged a few words of greeting – he said nothing at all – and then I came back down here for a little doze.<\/p>\n

The owner of the property came round this morning and we had a few words about this and that. And now the internet is back working again (but for how long I really have no idea) and a couple of essential repairs have been done to the property too. But as for this thing about cleaning – it’s been 11 days since I’ve seen the cleaner and my bedding is starting to smell as badly as I do.<\/p>\n

My baguette<\/em> for lunch was excellent even though it came from the supermarket on the corner and then in between making unsuccessful visits to various properties I’ve been catching up on a few things here and there.<\/p>\n

That tinned curry that I bought the other night – it was certainly different but absolutely excellent and I enjoyed my tea. Not being particularly hungry, I didn’t make any garlic bread so I’ll have to attack that in very early course. I wonder what I can eat it with tomorrow. A tin of ratatouille maybe?<\/p>\n

But in other bad news, this cold has now developed into a streaming head cold and the cough has now settled properly on my chest. This is not the news that I wanted to hear, remembering my unexpected 10-day incarceration in the hospital last time this happened when I was only supposed to be in there for a couple of hours.How I’m getting fed up of all of this.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow, I’m back house-hunting again. I’m getting fed up of all of this too!<\/p>\n

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