{"id":8566,"date":"2017-06-30T19:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=8566"},"modified":"2017-06-30T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:50:07","slug":"friday-30th-june-2017-i-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=8566","title":{"rendered":"Friday 30th June 2017 &#8211; I DIDN&#8217;T &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; buy myself a mini hi-fi today like I promised.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped at BUT to have a good look around at all of the equipment that they had on offer, but there was nothing there that really tempted me all that much. And so I went on to LeClerc where I had seen some stuff before.<\/p>\n<p>But having had a really good nosy around, I came away empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>My criteria are very simple &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CD player<\/li>\n<li>USD port for data sticks<\/li>\n<li>AM Radio (no point in having the live British football coverage on 5 Live from Jersey if I can&#8217;t pick it up<\/li>\n<li>external data input (jack or RCA socket)<\/li>\n<li>headphone socket<\/li>\n<li>decent volume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And could I find one? <\/p>\n<p>Not on your nelly I could.<\/p>\n<p>So I went back to BUT to have a closer look, but it was now lunchtime and anyone who knows anything at all about France knows about the 2-hour lunch when the whole country grinds to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a good browse on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> but with about 2,000 to choose from I&#8217;m pretty bogged down in a morass and my eyes have glazed over.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was the worst night that I have had for a while. I was fidgeting for ages trying to find a comfortable position where I wouldn&#8217;t itch or womething, and it kept me awake for ever.<\/p>\n<p>I must have dozed off though because it was the alarm that woke me up &#8211; and then I dozed off again until the repeater went off.<\/p>\n<p>In that little fifteen-minute interval I went on a travel, to visit some kind of huge exhibition hall where there were just about half a dozen small stalls dotted here and there &#8211; rather like that famous supermarket in Poprad in Czechosolvakia (now Slovakia) when I took a coach out there when I worked for Shearings Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I went, for the frst time, to LIDL here in Granville. No different than any LIDL anywhere else in the world, and the <em>client\u00e8le<\/em> is the same too.<\/p>\n<p>BUT was next, and then NOZ where I met the same <em>client\u00e8le<\/em> that I&#8217;d left in LIDL. I bought some more spices (mainly for the jars that they come in) and a few other bits and pieces. <\/p>\n<p>And here I struck gold.<\/p>\n<p>Last time that I was in there they were selling some clothes airers. I&#8217;d seem them at \u20ac9:99 (which is an excellent price anyway) a while back and the last time they were reduced by 30%. I went to find them today (hopefully I&#8217;ll have my washing machine installed tomorrow) and there was just one left &#8211; reduced to a mere \u20ac2:00.<\/p>\n<p>No prizes for guessing where that might now be found.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably thinking that at that price it might not be much good and that surely I&#8217;d be better off buying stuff to last. While I don&#8217;t necessarily disagree with you, I would say <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>decent stuff might well last, but my medical prognosis is that I might not<\/li>\n<li>With setting up a new house, I need so much stuff that I can&#8217;t afford to go out and buy everything at top quality. Buying a pile of cheap stuff just to set me off on the road means that I will have it all fairly quickly, and as it wears out or breaks down, I can replace it bit by bit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Shopping in the food part of LeClerc came next, and then we had the abortive return journey to BUT<\/p>\n<p>After lunch &#8211; spent indoors because it was now raining &#8211; I crashed out for quite a while. I blame the sleepless night on that. And I cracked on with the blog too.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was the final instalment of the curry and now it&#8217;s an early night.<\/p>\n<p>Washing machine tomorrow, with a bit of luck.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-8566 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='8566' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' 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-8566 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-8566 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='8566' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' 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-8566 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-8566 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; buy myself a mini hi-fi today like I promised. I stopped at BUT to have a good look around at all of the equipment that they had on offer, but there was nothing there that really tempted me all that much. And so I went on to LeClerc where I had seen some stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8757,44,4507,1616,8571,275,46,27,7876],"tags":[233,4788,1104,8758,1302,212,2560,5565,8581,2659,8734,3555,389,5368,5286,5279,7891,286],"class_list":["post-8566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-but","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-leclerc","category-lidl","category-noz","category-place-darmes","tag-amazon","tag-bad-night","tag-blog","tag-but","tag-crash-out","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-green-pepper-chick-pea-curry","tag-hi-fi","tag-httpwww-amazon-fr","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-leclerc","tag-lidl","tag-noz","tag-place-darmes","tag-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566","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=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}