{"id":7931,"date":"2017-05-29T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2017-05-29T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:57:58","slug":"monday-29th-may-2017-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7931","title":{"rendered":"Monday 29th May 2017 &#8211; LAST NIGHT &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; we had the most tremendous storm that I have seen for years.<\/p>\n<p>It started off at 23:00 exactly with the most terrific crash of thunder that rattled just about everywhere in the vicinity. And then the heavens opened and we got the lot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how long the storm went on for but it was a good couple of hours at least &#8211; although I did eventually go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>And I was on my travels too. A Rock concert that I wanted to see and I ended up seeing it from backstage. A group of about five young men who should have been a rock group but it was more like a Boys Band with them dressed in suits. And I was horrified to notice that they were actually miming, not singing or playing their instruments.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I headed off out, and had to swim across the entrance hall as it seemed that the whole of last night&#8217;s rain entered the building. Good job I&#8217;m on the first floor, isn&#8217;t it? It was still raining when I went to pick up the <em>baguette<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Back here, I spent the morning shortening the lace curtains. Well, not exactly shortening them but measuring them and pinning them up so that they don&#8217;t drag on the windowsill. In time, I&#8217;ll sew them up and cut off the excess. That&#8217;s a nice job for a cold winter evening I reckon.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, not much else. I rigged up a printer (and that was no easy task either) and printed off a form that I need to complete &#8211; which I duly did. It needs a rubber stamp from the Bank and that was my project for this afternoon but I wasn&#8217;t going out anywhere in this weather.<\/p>\n<p>As for the oven chips, they were a disappointment. They had been in there for 30 minutes, not 20, and at 230\u00b0C, not 210\u00b0C, and they still weren&#8217;t cooked. It&#8217;s rather a disappointment if you ask me. <\/p>\n<p>Another item of interest is that every now and again I develop a raging thirst. When I was in that hostel it was almost perpetual but I&#8217;ve not noticed it for a while. However today, I&#8217;ve had four or five mugs of coffee and demolished 1.5 litres of soft drink. Is this a sign of something?<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s bedtime. And if the weather is better I&#8217;ll be off on a Great Trek down to the Bank and, subsequently, to the Post Office.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-7931 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='7931' data-nonce='ceea1ad770' 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-7931 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-7931 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='7931' data-nonce='ceea1ad770' 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-7931 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-7931 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; we had the most tremendous storm that I have seen for years. It started off at 23:00 exactly with the most terrific crash of thunder that rattled just about everywhere in the vicinity. And then the heavens opened and we got the lot. I&#8217;m not sure how long the storm went on for but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[6723,409,212,2560,8764,5565,8581,8755,1807,7891,1047,1087,286,8765,1460],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-baguette","tag-credit-agricole","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-flooded-ground-floor","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-net-curtains","tag-oven-chips","tag-place-darmes","tag-post-office-2","tag-printer","tag-rainstorm","tag-thirst","tag-thunderstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","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=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7932,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions\/7932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}