{"id":7552,"date":"2017-02-15T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2017-02-16T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:53:32","slug":"wednesday-15th-february-2017-theres-going-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7552","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 15th February 2017 &#8211; THERE&#8217;S GOING TO BE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a change of plan in the near future. No matter what they say to me at the hospital on 27th February, I shan&#8217;t be going home the following day as it now seems that I have other fish to fry <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702026.jpg\" alt=\"botanical garden jardin botanique kruidtuin leuven belgium february fevrier 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>While you admire the Botanical Gardens, or Jardin Botanique or Kruidtuin of Leuven, where I went a-wandering this afternoon, I can fill you in about my day today.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was late going off to sleep, I slept solidly until about 06:30 when I was awoken by whatever it is that awoke me. No chance of going back to sleep and so I fretted and frittered in my bed until the alarm went off, and then I climbed upstairs to see where we were with the breakfast<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702027.jpg\" alt=\"botanical garden jardin botanique kruidtuin leuven belgium february fevrier 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>Someone who had passed by during the night had left us some bread for breakfast, although there wasn&#8217;t much else (although they did pass by today and stock up) so the bread that I had saved from my <em>baguette<\/em> yesterday wasn&#8217;t needed.<\/p>\n<p>However, given a quick 20 seconds in the microwave at lunchtime, it freshened up really well so that I only ate half of the baguette that I bought today. I&#8217;ll freshen that off tomorrow and that will save me having to buy one on Friday.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just as well too, because I ain&#8217;t gonna be here on Friday. I have things to do, places to go, people to see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702028.jpg\" alt=\"botanical garden jardin botanique kruidtuin leuven belgium february fevrier 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>During the morning I had a pile of stuff to do. This involving sending out a huge raft of e-mails and having an intense discussion with someone on the internet, as a result of all of which I now have to stay on here in Belgium for an extra week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m complaining of course &#8211; it&#8217;s nice to have all of these changes of plans, even if it does mean that my return home will be postponed for yet another week. I&#8217;ve probably forgotten where my house is by now<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702029.jpg\" alt=\"botanical garden jardin botanique kruidtuin leuven belgium february fevrier 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>While I was out buying my <em>baguette<\/em> I noticed that there were no fewer than 5 black plastic storage boxes in the rubbish skip. One of them was pretty well crushed about but the other four were good, so I liberated them on the way back here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite ironic that I took three down to Caliburn the other day in order to make a bit more space here, and just a couple of days later I&#8217;ve ended up with more than I started with.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>After lunch I occupied myself with some tidying up in here, getting rid of another pile of paperwork, and the place looks a little more tidy here than it did previously.<\/p>\n<p>And then I wandered down to Caliburn. I wasn&#8217;t sure what I needed to do down there but I went all the same. Started him up and let him tick over for 15 minutes. I did some tidying up in the back and just brought back some bottles of drink and a soya milk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1702\/1702030.jpg\" alt=\"botanical garden jardin botanique kruidtuin leuven belgium february fevrier 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>It was such a nice afternoon that I walked back the long way through the Botanical Gardens. It really was beautiful in there, and the smells were totally overpowering.<\/p>\n<p>The bulbs were starting to sprout too and it all looked and smelt very much like spring in there. There weren&#8217;t many people in there but everyone seemed to be enjoying it. And quite right too.<\/p>\n<p>Back here I had a crash out for a while and then went off to make tea. I remembered to put the olives in tonight&#8217;s kidney bean mix, and I also remembered to take up my pineapple rings to eat with my vegan ice-cream.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>And another one of my housemates has invited me out for a drink. There are a lot of lonely people in places like this.<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s another early night, to see if I can have a good sleep. I could do with it after all of this excitement today.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-7552 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='7552' data-nonce='eff2189b0a' 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-7552 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-7552 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='7552' data-nonce='eff2189b0a' 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-7552 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-7552 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a change of plan in the near future. No matter what they say to me at the hospital on 27th February, I shan&#8217;t be going home the following day as it now seems that I have other fish to fry While you admire the Botanical Gardens, or Jardin Botanique or Kruidtuin of Leuven, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4507,3371],"tags":[6723,1673,6531,199,5381,1302,1712,2560,365,5511,5918,320,2764],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-eric-hall-2","category-leuven","tag-baguette","tag-belgium-2","tag-botanical-gardens","tag-brussels-2","tag-caliburn","tag-crash-out","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-european-union","tag-hannah","tag-leuven","tag-tidying-up","tag-vegan-ice-cream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","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=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}