{"id":797,"date":"2010-07-19T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=797"},"modified":"2017-06-28T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T09:46:41","slug":"there-was-no-conversation-group-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Monday 19th July 2010 – There was no conversation group today …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clotilde<\/a>… so Clotilde invited a couple of us round for a chat and some snacks, which was very nice of her. Of course Strawberry Moose<\/a> came along too to meet some of his admirers.<\/p>\n

Clotilde’s house is gorgeous but it’s really discouraging to hear her say that it took 46 years to get it into the condition that it’s in today. And she showed us a photo of how it was when she bought it – and it really was a right tip too.
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\"birdwatching<\/a>On the way down to Clotilde’s, I went the long way round with my new camera<\/a>\"\" via the birdwatching centre at the back of St Gervais d’Auvergne seeing as how it was a beautiful early evening. This as you know is my favourite photography spot. <\/p>\n

Here’s a beautiful view of the Gorge de la Sioule just down there in the centre of the photograph and over away to the left is the church at Sauret Besserve
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\"puy<\/a>I wanted to take a couple of photos of the view from there – a view which you all know is one of the best in the whole of France – and see how the new camera performs in the excellent weather conditions.<\/p>\n

This is a close-up of the radio antenna on the Puy-de-Dome – a little bit of crop-and-enlarge from a full-size image. We have a new high-quality lens<\/a>\"\" and I was keen to see how that performed too.
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\"moon<\/a>But that wasn’t all that was exciting about my little visit to the centre ornithologique this evening. As I was there this evening, the moon rose. Quite early for once, I know, and so I gave it a little go with the new lens too.<\/p>\n

Quite honestly, this photo couldn’t have come out much better, could it?<\/p>\n

All in all, I’m well-impressed with my new camera and lens. And quite rightly so, considering the money that I’ve spent on it.
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Back at Pooh Corner this morning, Terry has started on Lieneke’s roof and I’ve been roped in to help. That’s going to be the plan for the next few weeks I suppose. And her roof is a right mess – far worse than mine was – and only patching a part of it is not going to be a long-term solution, for the more that you rip off the more damage that you find.<\/p>\n

The chimney is leaning quite ominously too and I don’t like the look of it.<\/p>\n

But it was hot up there on that roof today and my being stung by a wasp didn’t help matters much. 30-odd years since I was last stung by a wasp and now it’s twice in as many weeks.<\/p>\n

And we’ve set a couple of records today. A total of 317 amp-hours on the two banks in the house will take some matching. And 44 degrees in the solar heat exchanger and 42.5 in the electric heater – those figures are impressive too. I’ve been thinking about the electric water heater – a 25-litre oil drum would do the job but an old milk churn with lid would be even better. I need to search the brocantes<\/i>.<\/p>\n

But at Clotilde’s this evening I did hear a story about a man who ran some cold water slowly onto his tin roof and took a shower underneath the downspout – and burnt himself, the water was so hot. And here I am, just having fitted about 150 sq m of metal roof on my barn. I’d love to try that out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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