{"id":870,"date":"2010-05-08T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=870"},"modified":"2016-06-21T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T16:12:26","slug":"something-exciting-happened-at-the-footy-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 8th May 2010 – Something exciting …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… happened at the footy this evening.<\/p>\n

\"rising<\/a>In fact many exciting things happened at the footy – more of which anon – but the most unusual of them all was at about 5 minutes to half time when I turned around and noticed a cloud of water vapour rising from off the disused railway embankment at the back of the ground. It was quite astonishing.<\/p>\n

The second half was played through the banks of the cloud that was being slowly blown across the Overflow End of the pitch by a light but steady breeze. All in all it made for quite a surreal .atmosphere for this … errrr … tense game.
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\"fcpsh<\/a>I say “tense” because that’s exactly what it was. With a Lapeyrouse linesman giving goal kicks against Pionsat when the ball hadn’t crossed the line, throw-ins against Pionsat when the ball hadn’t gone out of play, offsides against Pionsat that were nothing like offsides (I was right level with play – much more than the linesman was), and the linesman coming onto the pitch to threaten (yes, to threaten) Gregory after he had put in a heavy but legal challenge on the Lapeyrouse winger.<\/p>\n

And with Lapeyrouse players collapsing like ninepins every time a Pionsat player got near to them and with a Lapeyrouse keeper hurling abuse at the Pionsat attackers all throughout the match, how the referee allowed this game to continue I don’t know. But Pionsat lost 1-0 and it’s the result that counts.
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Back home (up here is above the cloud level experienced in the valley down at Pionsat) I discovered why the water vapour suddenly rose like that. All the clouds have gone and there is a clear sky with millions of stars again. We were obviously experiencing the effects of the change of the weather – some sudden temperature inversion and a pile of heat radiation into the atmosphere. It may well be hot tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I went into St Eloy les Mines to do my shopping earlier and to my surprise almost everywhere was closed yet again. Of course, it’s May 8th – VE Day – and so most places were celebrating the end of World War II in Europe.<\/p>\n

But I made an astonishing discovery. I popped round to Claude and Francoise and ….<\/p>\n

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  1. the bell push has gone from the front door (there’s a long story about this bell-push)<\/li>\n
  2. their letter box has been removed<\/li>\n
  3. the European Cardboard Box Mountain appears to have disappeared<\/li>\n
  4. their car has gone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All the indications seem to suggest that they have badgered off into the sunset. How bizarre!<\/p>\n

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