{"id":842,"date":"2010-06-05T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=842"},"modified":"2016-06-24T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:22:27","slug":"i-was-in-marcillat-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 5th June 2010 – I was in Marcillat en Combraille this evening …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… for a meeting about tourism. I arrived promptly at 19:30 to find out that the meeting actually started at 17:30. At that time I was in the swimming baths at Neris les Bains.<\/p>\n

But nevertheless I was well-entertained by the woman who runs the tourist board and towards the end of our discussion I realised why it was that I had been invited. It seems that the Allier’s equivalent of SMADC also run some kind of programme on local radio – in this case Radio Tartasse – and they are interested in an English-language programme. Of course, before I say anything I need to speak to Liz about it but I did suggest that they talk to Christian at SMADC and see about syndicating what we do for them.<\/p>\n

\"donjon<\/a>After the meeting I went for a drink with Marianne at the local hotel and in there drinking were Geoffrey and Francois from the Anglo-French group. We had a good chat about things while we were there.<\/p>\n

On the way back to Caliburn, just as the sun was setting I couldn’t resist taking a pic of the village square and the donjon. It was just at the right time too – not too light and not too dark either – and it’s come out pretty well. It does help, having a good tripod.
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\"new<\/a>It’s been probably the hottest day of the year today. The temperature reached as high as 35.8\u00b0, which is the highest temperature since 7th September last year. <\/p>\n

Not much chance of having me working in that. I spent the morning watching the local farmer repair the fence at the back of the house here and then bring his cattle along, and then I spent the rest of the morning doing some work on the website.
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This afternoon was shopping and nothing exciting, and then into the pool at Neris.<\/p>\n

But I’ll tell you what – I’m noticing more and more tattoos on more and more people over here and I can’t do with tattoos at all. There was one woman in the pool, clearly in her early 50s and with a figure that most women half her age would die for – and she knew how to show it off to the best advantage too – and covered with tattoos. I just don’t know how people can do it and I don’t know what pleasure there is in it either.<\/p>\n

There was another woman in there too – and as she went swimming past me on her back I thought of saying to her “for God’s sake don’t breathe in!”. <\/p>\n

So here I am in my room tonight – it’s 00:20 and I’m shirtless and it’s still 27\u00b0 in here, even with all of the windows open. In fact it reached 28.7\u00b0 degrees in here at one point. <\/p>\n

Heaven knows what it’s going to be like in August.<\/p>\n

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