{"id":7538,"date":"2017-02-10T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2017-02-10T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:51:36","slug":"friday-10th-february-2017-i-came-back-to-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7538","title":{"rendered":"Friday 10th February 2017 &#8211; I CAME BACK TO BELGIUM &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for the good of my health, but it&#8217;s not working out quite like that. It&#8217;s not doing my pulse rate and heartbeat much good, but that won&#8217;t stop me going out for a walk to take the air around the town on another occasion round about University chucking-out time, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we got off to a good start &#8211; I stepped out of the front door and almost bowled a young schoolgirl straight into the centre of the road. She gave me such a beautiful smile that it cheered me right up for the rest of the day. I had a nice smile from the pharmacist too (not my usual one) as I picked up my next supply of medication, and then I hit the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, in order to get off to sleep early, I watched a film on the laptop. But that didn&#8217;t work, just for a change. Mind you, it wasn&#8217;t a Bulldog Drummond film so that might explain it. And then we had the usual awakening in the middle of the night and a couple of rude awakenings as people started to stir around here.<\/p>\n<p>During the night, I&#8217;d been on my travels. I was having to prepare a thesis to be read out in front of an examining board and I wasn&#8217;t all that enthused about the subject that I had to present. On the other hand my friend June has to prepare her thesis on &#8220;travel&#8221; and she was saying to our mutual friend Krys that it was a shame that I wan&#8217;t presenting it because it was a subject that I clearly enjoyed. There was a cabbage that featured somewhere in this story too but I&#8217;ve no idea where and why now.  <\/p>\n<p>There were only three of us at breakfast but others had clearly been before us as we&#8217;d run out of orange juice and other stuff too. And then I came back down here to go back to sleep for a while. When I awoke, I went for a shower, a change of clothes and this led to a shave, and even &#8230; shock! horroh! &#8230; a haircut. <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m glad that I prettied myself up because they came to change the bed linen. So I&#8217;m all nice and clean everywhere tonight.While they were doing that, I went out for my <em>baguette<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, I had another snooze but it was only for about another hour or so. And then &#8211; I made an executive decision. I don&#8217;t have enough trousers here and this is causing issues. In fact, in the shower I washed one of my pairs. But then I decided that maybe I ought to do something about this, and so I hit the streets as I said just now.<\/p>\n<p>C and A had nothing, and so I went to the Sports shop where I bought my new shoes at the end of Autumn. Two pairs of decent trousers of the kind and of the material that I like, and reduced on special offer to \u20ac11:50 each. That&#8217;s more than I pay in Montlucon but it can&#8217;t be helped.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back, I kept on tripping over college girls. Yes, I&#8217;ll come out again at this time of afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s tea was vegan pie, beans, carrots, boiled potatoes and gravy. Totally delicious. A chat on the internet with Liz too.<\/p>\n<p>And so we&#8217;ll try to have an early night again tonight. I hope that I&#8217;ll feel even better tomorrow. But there are no girls out there to cheer me up.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-7538 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='7538' data-nonce='9e3d69539b' 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-7538 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-7538 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='7538' data-nonce='9e3d69539b' 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-7538 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-7538 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for the good of my health, but it&#8217;s not working out quite like that. It&#8217;s not doing my pulse rate and heartbeat much good, but that won&#8217;t stop me going out for a walk to take the air around the town on another occasion round about University chucking-out time, that&#8217;s for sure. 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