{"id":7918,"date":"2017-05-24T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2017-05-24T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:10:38","slug":"wednesday-24th-may-2017-now-heres-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7918","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 24th May 2017 &#8211; NOW HERE&#8217;S A SURPRISE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8211; I spent a pleasant hour or so having a coffee with neighbours here in the building.<\/p>\n<p>And no-one whom I have previously met either. And had I been a little quicker, I might even have acquired a washing machine and I&#8217;m a little dismayed about that!<\/p>\n<p>Coming back from buying my <em>baguette<\/em> this morning, a couple of men were struggling out of the building with a washing machine &#8211; so I held the door open for them and watched (with dismay) as they threw it into the back of a lorry. There was a couple half-way up the stairs and we ended up having a chat. It appears that they had just bought a new washing machine, it had been delivered, and they had given away the old one which was taken away by the suppliers. <\/p>\n<p>Drat! And double-drat!<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, to cut a long story short &#8230;<em>&#8220;hooray!&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; we ended up having quite a chat and they invited me in for a coffee. They are my age, inveterate travellers and Monsieur likes Led Zeppelin. And they also told me quite a bit about the other people who live in the building. We have quite a few musicians in here, apparently, and that can only be good news.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was another difficult night for me &#8211; took me ages to go off to sleep and then I awoke quite early this morning. And after breakfast I had a good relax before going off to buy the <em>baguette<\/em> and to come back fro coffee.<\/p>\n<p>And apart from that, I&#8217;ve not done very much else. Quietly sitting in here and doing some work on the laptop and some tidying up too. Isn&#8217;t that a change?<\/p>\n<p>Tea was more potatoes, peas, carrots and vegan burger, all cooked in the microwave. That was a good purchase, I reckon, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with it. When I pick up my oven I&#8217;ll be in my element and I can&#8217;t wait for that either.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll be having another early night, another session of Saint episodes, and (hopefully) an early night. Tomorrow is a Bank Holiday so I&#8217;m having a day off &#8211; always assuming that I can find a <em>baguette<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-7918 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='7918' data-nonce='17e306aa0d' 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-7918 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-7918 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='7918' data-nonce='17e306aa0d' 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-7918 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-7918 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8211; I spent a pleasant hour or so having a coffee with neighbours here in the building. And no-one whom I have previously met either. And had I been a little quicker, I might even have acquired a washing machine and I&#8217;m a little dismayed about that! Coming back from buying my baguette this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[6723,1712,2560,5565,8581,2671,8759,7891,8760],"class_list":["post-7918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-baguette","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-laptop","tag-neighbour","tag-place-darmes","tag-washing-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918","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=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}