{"id":7318,"date":"2016-12-17T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2021-05-12T04:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:59:42","slug":"saturday-17th-december-2016-while-you-admire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7318","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 17th December 2016 – WHILE YOU ADMIRE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"christmas<\/a> … the centre of Leuven all decorated up for Christmas, let me tell you a little about what I have been up to today.<\/p>\n

It’s Saturday and as you might expect, I’ve been out and about late this morning, doing my shopping ready for the weekend.<\/p>\n

And I took the opportunity to go for a walk up into the centre of town to see what was going on.<\/p>\n

In fact, there was a good purpose for going up there.
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\"christmas<\/a> I wanted some vegan cheese and some spray-on vegan cream from the Vegan shop ready for Christmas. But although the door was open and there were people there, the shop wasn’t open for customers yet.<\/p>\n

I can’t believe how much money Belgian shops turn away with some of the silly ideas that they have. After all, I wasn’t going to hang around for another hour.
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\"christmas<\/a>But I can’t believe how empty the town centre was today. I was expecting the place to be teeming with people seeing as how close we are the Christmas, but it was more like an early Sunday morning up there rather than a late Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t all that cold either. It doesn’t seem at all like Christmas right now and I’m clearly missing something somewhere
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\"christmas<\/a>The decorations in the city are rather half-hearted and that doesn’t add too much to the festive atmosphere. I was expecting much more than this here in Leuven, to be honest.<\/p>\n

All in all, I wasn’t out all that long. A quick lap around the Delhaize (where they had some grapes alredy bagged up on special offer) and my wasted trip to the Vegan shop, and that was that.
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\"chrstmas<\/a>But there is one thing that I do have to say – and that concerns the barrel organist whom you might have seen in a previous photo.<\/p>\n

I don’t care what anyone says, Christmas carols sung in English with a Flemish accent sound far too much like Goldmember<\/a>\"\" for my liking. I was trying my best not to burst out laughing as I listened.
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So my early night last night must have done some good somewhere for despite having to go off down the corridor at one point, I ended up being awake, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (well, sort-of) and out of bed at all of 06:02 this morning.<\/p>\n

I’d been on my travels too – something to with kids in the snow in Northern Labrador (i seem to be stuck here right now, don’t I?), but sometime later, it was a morning of really heavy snow and I was on my way to work. It was to a new job in a new office. And I was admiring the snowmen that people had built in their gardens. It was Shavington, on the corner or Rope Lane and Main Road by the Co-op where I arrived next, and here I fell in with two people who were to be my new colleagues. One of them I recognised immediately – he was someone with whom I’d worked in an office previously. We started to chat and he told me a little about my new place, and that he was getting married – to someone that I knew – that morning so we would have the day off anyway. But he was already making plans for a subsequent marriage, and it all sounded rather weird to me.<\/p>\n

After breakfast I did some stuff on the website and then went off into town to buy what I need. And that took me nicely up to lunch.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I went for a coffee and a really good chat, and that took a good few hours, we had so much to talk about.<\/p>\n

I had a crash out when I returned, and then I had a little treat. The Welsh Premier League matches broadcast on Sgorio<\/em> aren’t accessible to people living outside the UK, but someone “shared” it on his social networking site and by this method I was able to see the game.<\/p>\n

The first this season, I reckon.<\/p>\n

I missed tea tonight – I couldn’t summon up the energy to make it. Instead I’ve had a relax and now I’m going to have yet another early night.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow afternoon, I’m going off on my travels, I reckon.<\/p>\n

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