{"id":753,"date":"2010-08-31T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=753"},"modified":"2016-06-30T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:54:44","slug":"ive-been-out-and-about-for-part-of-the-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 31st August 2010 – I’ve been out and about …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… for part of the day today.<\/p>\n

\"village<\/a>One of the places that I visited today was Virlet, the village that is my postal address. And while I was there I went to take a few photographs.<\/p>\n

Now that my website is practically up-to-date I’ve started on doing some new stuff and one of the things I’m working on is a page about the village. There’s nothing at all in English about it.
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\"village<\/a>While I was there for the brocante<\/i> I took a few pics but I really wanted one of the church. There has never been a decent one because it’s surrounded by clutter – a stone wall, trees, the village hall etc. <\/p>\n

So I had this idea of driving right across to the other side of the valley, using the 105mm (3x) zoom, doing a nice long-hop (it’s over a mile away across there) and then cropping the church out of the photo.<\/p>\n

And do you know, it’s come out rather well. It really is the only position where you can see it to its best advantage\u00a0, and in fact I’ve never seen a photo of the church taken from this position. I’m well-pleased with this.
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So why was I in Virlet today? <\/p>\n

Two reasons really. Firstly to obtain an attestation that I am a resident in the area and secondly to have a copy of the list that gives the names and addresses of doctors who are authorised to give medical examinations for commercial driving licences. If I’m changing my driving licence for a new one I may as well change my truck and bus (and taxi) licences too while I’m at it. You never know what might happen.<\/p>\n

But of course, as you would expect, it wasn’t all plain sailing. The mayor’s secretary is away today and he doesn’t have a clue what to do. So I’ll have to go back on Thursday. You’ve never ever seen anything like this place for chaos. But at least the guy at the Driving Licence centre answered his phone this morning and he was even helpful. I don’t have much time to apply for this licence so I need to put my skates on. I’ll go down to Clermont Ferrand on Thursday when I have my attestation.<\/p>\n

\"pointing<\/a>So this afternoon I carried on with the pointing and it doesn’t half take ages to do. You can see just how far I’ve done today – the grey-mortared bit at the lower edge of the wall. That’s about one-sixteenth of the wall done. \u00a0At this rate it will take for ever but I’ll keep on plugging away at it as long as the weather lets me.<\/p>\n

And that might not be for long – last night the temperature fell to 7.2\u00b0C, the lowest so far. I ahve all the windows closed up here and I’m wearing a jacket – in August.
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And in other news, Terry and I are now the owners of an Ifor Williams 2.5-tonne trailer. Fed-up of messing about with old trailers that won’t even carry a set of scaffolding when they are working properly, we have bitten the bullet and paid up. It’ll move the scaffolding and Terry’s tractor quite nicely, help me fetch all my cars down here, and we can hire it out as well to make a little bit on the side, like we do with the scaffolding.<\/p>\n

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