{"id":7858,"date":"2017-05-05T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2017-05-05T20:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:09:53","slug":"friday-5th-may-2017-so-here-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7858","title":{"rendered":"Friday 5th May 2017 – SO HERE I AM …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… about to spend my first night in my new chez moi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Last night I had a really good sleep and was awakened from the dead by the alarm. I knew absolutely nothing about anything in between. I’d been on my travels but all memory of them had disappeared by the time that I had come round.<\/p>\n

It was something of a painful breakfast – I’ve clearly been doing too much just now – and I ad to sit around for half an hour or so before I could hit the road. But I ended up at NOZ just as it opened.<\/p>\n

NOZ was something of a disappointment. It’s a shop that sells all kinds of ends of series, bankrupt stock, all of that, and I was hoping for a pile of stuff to help me set up home, but it had almost nothing whatever.<\/p>\n

I had much better luck in Centrakor where I spent almost \u20ac100. Tons of stuff in there that I needed, but most important, after a decent big waste bin of course, was some bedding. A single quilt, pillow and quilt cover. I’m sleeping on the sofa until I can sort out a bed, and I’ll need these to keep warm. It won’t be wasted because if I have friends to stay, they can use the bed and the double quilt that I’ll be buying, and I’ll use the single on here.<\/p>\n

After that I went to LeClerc and stocked up with whatever I couldn’t get and also a pile of food. And then I came here.<\/p>\n

Still creaking and groaning, it took me a while to bring everything up and then I sat down and made my butties – only to be disturbed by the man from EDF. It took him just 5 minutes to reconnect the electricity and another couple of minutes to show me how to figure out the switch to the immersion heater so that it works on off-peak hours only.<\/p>\n

Once that was organised I went into town. I had to pick up the lease for this place, but the estate agent wasn’t in. And then I had to go to my internet provider to pick up a new box. On the way back, seeing as how I now have a working fridge, I picked up a box of strawberry sorbet. I may as well make good use of the freezer drawer I suppose;<\/p>\n

This new portable halogen hob thing that I bought in IKEA a couple of months ago isn’t half the bee’s knees. Once I’d worked out how to make it function, it cooked a quick meal for me in minutes flat. It just shows you how out-of-date this old technology is. When I organise the kitchen I’ll be having a couple of halogen hobs to cook with, and I’ll see if I can’t find a halogen oven to go with it. I’m very impressed.<\/p>\n

There’s no internet here for another week but I’m in luck because seeing as I am so high up here on the rock, I can pick up some really good signals and my internet supplier has a public wi-fi point in the vicinity to provide a service to the hostel for young workers just down the road. With my own ID and password I can connect into it, so here I am. I’m not sure just how reliable it might be though.<\/p>\n

So now I’m going to try for my first night here in my new place. No curtains on the window so I’ll be awoken early.<\/p>\n

And that’s the cue for an early night then, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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