{"id":72,"date":"2012-11-09T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-07-12T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T10:47:50","slug":"i-didnt-quite-manage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Friday 9th November 2012 &#8211; I DIDN&#8217;T QUITE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; manage to do as much as I would have liked on the tidying up in the bedroom where I&#8217;m working. <\/p>\n<p>I had a phone call from C\u00e9cile this morning inviting me round for a chat. She&#8217;s renovating a house all on her own and reading between the lines, she had run out of ideas and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>That, of course is something to which I can easily relate, having been here myself on many occasions and needing a push along the path (thanks, Terry).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we had quite a long chat about things in her house and so she&#8217;s going out shopping tomorrow for some bits and pieces to help her along the way.<\/p>\n<p>It really does help to have someone to chat to every now and again in circumstances like this.<\/p>\n<p>This morning though, I had a good stint on the website and I&#8217;ve now finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/2012c05a.html\" target=\"_blank\">my visit to Qu\u00e9bec<\/a> and I&#8217;m back in my motel in the Street of 100 Motels. <\/p>\n<p>I can now start indexing the Qu\u00e9bec photos and splitting the pages up into bite-sized morsels so as not to overwhelm the MTV generation with its truncated attention span. <\/p>\n<p>That might take some time too.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I cut a pile of firewood, emptied the composting toilet (there aren&#8217;t half some lovely jobs around here) and then attacked the tidying up for an hour or so. <\/p>\n<p>The pile of stuff on the shelves is diminishing rapidly. I can&#8217;t imagine what half of the stuff is doing in here anyway. It should be in the barn.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I lit the fire, even though there wasn&#8217;t really a need. It&#8217;s just that I fancied jacket potatoes and baked beans for tea and for that I need the oven. <\/p>\n<p>It was well-worth the effort too, really enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>And so I&#8217;ve decided to have an early night tonight. That will do me good too. <\/p>\n<p>But before I go, a huge &#8220;well done&#8221; to Rhys who has at last, after all kinds of vicissitudes, some of which have been mentioned in these pages and others which haven&#8217;t, been finally awarded his citizenship of the USA. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m really happy for you and I&#8217;m sure that the rest of the readership is too. <\/p>\n<p>You deserve it.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-72 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='72' data-nonce='5188def254' 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-72 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-72 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='72' data-nonce='5188def254' 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-72 unlc'>-1<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-72 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; manage to do as much as I would have liked on the tidying up in the bedroom where I&#8217;m working. I had a phone call from C\u00e9cile this morning inviting me round for a chat. She&#8217;s renovating a house all on her own and reading between the lines, she had run out of ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,302,258],"tags":[3260,1235,737,1624,319,518,1712,2560,5565,206,5375,5366,261,1391,680,1802,320],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-la-batisse","category-les-guis","tag-baked-beans","tag-baked-potatoes","tag-beichstuhl","tag-canada-2","tag-composting-toilet","tag-cutting-wood","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-la-batisse","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-quebec-2","tag-rhys-sage","tag-shelving","tag-tidying-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}