{"id":851,"date":"2010-05-27T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=851"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:11:46","slug":"one-of-the-things-i-did-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 27th May 2010 – One of the things I did today …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… was a job that I had been putting off for a while.<\/p>\n

well, not exactly putting off but one that I keep on meaning to do but always forget about – until today, that is.<\/p>\n

When I did the lean-to roof back in August I did the guttering but due to the lack of stock in Brico Depot I couldn’t do the downspout so I just had a length of pipe shoved in there. After several months of this I suddenly remembered about the downspout when I was in Brico Depot once not so long ago and as they had the stuff I stocked up.<\/p>\n

I prmoptly forgot about it and the occasional flashes I had always seemed to occur when I was too busy to do it. Even the tempest blowing it down coincided with something else of urgence that I had to do.<\/p>\n

\"fitting<\/a>But not today! I was wandering somewhat aimlessly around the place this morning after my customary 2 hours on the computer and so I searched out all of the stuff and did it.<\/p>\n

I’ve not finished off the bottom as I don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I have it simply draining onto another piece of guttering and that runs away down the field as a temporary measure.<\/p>\n

I’ll now have to think of more permanent arrangement to complete it because I can’t leave it like this. It’s a waste of water for a start.
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I’ve also done some more gardening. I’ve put out some of the aubergines and planted some spinach and more radishes. I’ve also sown a few lettuce seeds in a pot to create some kind of succession. The radishes that I planted 6 weeks ago are looking good and I reckon that on Monday it will be lettuce and radishes from my own garden.<\/p>\n

\"OSB<\/a>To finish off, I’ve started boarding the back wall in the bedroom where the wardrobe is going to be, and as you might expect, I don’t think that I have enough OSB boards left over from when I did the barn floor. That’s a disappointment.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s almost the weekend and I can nip off into town and buy some more to finish the job. But it is depressing that I always seem to run aground just when I’m in the right kind of mood to press on regardless.
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In other news, we were in the studio on Tuesday recording our programme for June. We didn’t have a guest because the guy I was trying to contact didn’t call me back. So of course, he called me back yesterday. Our programmes that we recorded are for the month of June so today I received an e-mail from a Tourist body telling me about events in the Puy-de-Dome in … errrrr … June.<\/p>\n

You can’t make up this kind of nonsense, can you?<\/p>\n

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