{"id":754,"date":"2010-08-31T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=754"},"modified":"2016-06-30T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:51:53","slug":"no-photo-tonight-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Monday 30th August 2010 – No photo tonight people."},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s because I forgot to take one, and probably there wasn’t anything worth photographing anyway. But what a day it was!<\/p>\n

This morning started with the website. I’m trying to bring August 2010 right up to date and then that will be all the arrears sorted out and I can move on to doing some new stuff. I’ve not had the opportunity to do anything to it properly for over a year.<\/p>\n

So when the battery went flat I went outside to try to sort myself out a wheelbarrow. The Caliburn-coloured one won’t be going anywhere for a bit. It was okay until a huge pile of slates from the house roof landed in it from a great height last year and that blew the tubeless tyre off the beading and try as I might I can’t get it to go back. So into the barn to look for the B&Q wheelbarrow that is in pieces and I eventually tracked all of the pieces down, despite doing a good deal of tidying up … “Aren’t you feeling well?” – ed<\/em> … and discovering more things I never even knew that I had.<\/p>\n

That inner tube is perished and the two tubes that Claude gave me – so are they and so that was that. I’ll have to bite the bullet and get some wheels or tubes the next time the lorry comes round, or see what there is on ebay.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I played a round of the French national sport of “here we go round the mulberry bush” trying to get a Social Security number. Seven different numbers I was given, and seven different people I spoke to until I finally found someone who could help me with this. Apparently I need to produce a birth certificate giving not only the details about myself but also the details about my parents. <\/p>\n

Now many people reading this blog, especially Turdi de Hatred and everyone else from OUSA, will be wondering how I will be able to find out the details of my father, and they would be surprised at how close they might be to the truth.<\/p>\n

But having said all of this I can understand why it is that so many people in France work on the Black Economy. It’s not that they have any lack of goodwill, it’s just that they get totally fed up of this absurd and relentless paper chase and I can’t say I blame them as I was pretty fed up by this time too and ready to renounce my registration and do it all stumeling<\/em>, as they say in Flanders.<\/p>\n

And the best is yet to come. I need to change my driving licence over to a French one so I rang the sous-prefecture<\/em>. They told me that I can’t do it there but at the prefecture<\/em> in Clermont Ferrand. They gave me the number but told me not to ring as apparently the guy doesn’t answer his phone in the afternoon. And do you know what? They were dead right too.<\/p>\n

It’s not surprising that no-one ever does any business around here.<\/p>\n

I mentioned Turdi de Hatred just now, and that reminded me. When I was at the brocante<\/em> yesterday I came across a video entitled Return Of The Living Dead<\/a>\"\". You know, I had no idea that anyone had filmed her reading out the Open University Students Association election results.<\/p>\n

So after my marathon session on the phone I went into the garden and sorted out the veg for tea – a veggie burger with onions and garlic, and with spuds, carrots, beans, spinach, sage, rosemary and mint from my garden. Beautiful it was too.<\/p>\n

But the meal is in the future. While the veg was soaking itself I mixed a bucket of mortar and started on the pointing of the house wall in the lean-to. High time I did that so I can put the lean-to roof on again. But it’s going to take me forever I reckon. It doesn’t go as quick as you like it and you might remember what happens if you take the cheating way out and just crepi<\/em> it to hide the gaps. There’s a pic of the results of that on this blog from a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

When the bucket was empty and it was 17:40 – not worth mixing another – I went to chop some wood. An after a little while I rediscovered the branch cutter that had seized up and stopped working. Now that I have a workbench and a place to work I stripped it down to look at it and sure enough there was a bolt that was badly worn that was distorting the cutting angle. So I swapped it round with a less-important bolt from another part of the machine, cleaned and greased it, and now that’s that fixed.<\/p>\n

My day isn’t finished yet either! Bernard from the footy club<\/a> rang up. Apparently my name is now on the referees’ list for the forthcoming season and so he gave me the telephone number of the sports outfitters who supply the club, and told me to order what I need in the way of referee’s clobber. <\/p>\n

No wonder I’m knackered after all of this!<\/p>\n

-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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That’s because I forgot to take one, and probably there wasn’t anything worth photographing anyway. But what a day it was! This morning started with the website. I’m trying to bring August 2010 right up to date and then that will be all the arrears sorted out and I can move on to doing some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[414,1174,7365,5297,747,564,439,5275,518,4523,2560,5278,5277,2705,5565,801,206,5157,5366,2302,5406,5388,745,403,4522,4856,7363,288,7355,7364,2517,1266,320,5395,5369,5158,3695],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-beans","tag-bernard-peny","tag-branch-cutter","tag-brocante","tag-carrots","tag-cement","tag-claude-2","tag-clermont-ferrand","tag-cutting-wood","tag-driving-licence","tag-eric-hall","tag-fc-pionsat-st-hilaire","tag-fcpsh","tag-flanders","tag-france","tag-httpwww-amazon-co-uk","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-inner-tube","tag-les-guis","tag-mint","tag-open-university","tag-ousa","tag-pointing","tag-potatoes","tag-prefecture","tag-referee","tag-roofing-slates","tag-rosemary","tag-sage","tag-social-security-number","tag-sous-prefecture","tag-spinach","tag-tidying-up","tag-turdi-de-hatred","tag-virlet","tag-wheel","tag-wheelbarrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}