{"id":900,"date":"2010-04-07T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=900"},"modified":"2016-05-30T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:22:44","slug":"i-think-that-spring-might-actually-have-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 6th April 2010 &#8211; I think &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; that Spring might actually have made it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a glorious hot day, but of course we have had these before. What actually did the business though was that the temperature in the heat exchanger got up to over 50 degrees &#8211; the first time since as long ago as 8th September, would you believe &#8211; and in the 15 litres of water underneath the caravan window we had 32 degrees &#8211; easily and by far away the highest temperature since I installed a permanent thermometer a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Spring might be here but this morning wasn&#8217;t. That&#8217;ll teach me to mess around with this 3D animation program until it&#8217;s starting to get light outside. The <i>boulangere<\/i> woke me up &#8211; at 11:30!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1004003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1004003.jpg\" alt=\"raised beds les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>But as I said it was a beautiful day, and I took full advantage by planting the lettuce that I bought on Saturday. They&#8217;ve gone into a bit of a raised bed that isn&#8217;t covered off by a sheet of corrugated iron.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t half look insipid when they are transplanted though and a really good watering didn&#8217;t seem to improve matters. They&#8217;ll probably need a day or two or three to revigorate.<\/p>\n<p>And after lunch I started to dig out where I&#8217;ll be putting the megacloche. And that was none-too-easy as the whole area is honeycombed with tree roots. Of course I forgot to buy a handle for my pickaxe and unfortunately I broke my really good spade, leaving me with just a cheap one. I&#8217;ll have to scout around for a new one and it&#8217;ll have to be good. Cheap ones don&#8217;t last long round here.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>I was interrupted by this TV presenter woman who wanted a chat. It seems that she&#8217;s serious about talking to us. Our fame must be spreading!<\/p>\n<p>And would you believe it &#8211; it&#8217;s started to rain now!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-900 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='900' data-nonce='c08db6eab0' 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-900 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-900 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='900' data-nonce='c08db6eab0' 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-900 unlc'>-1<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-900 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; that Spring might actually have made it. Yes, a glorious hot day, but of course we have had these before. What actually did the business though was that the temperature in the heat exchanger got up to over 50 degrees &#8211; the first time since as long ago as 8th September, would you believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[5408,984,6998,464,2630,2560,5565,390,5366,2243,1731,286,1063],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-appearing-on-television","tag-boulanger","tag-broke-spade","tag-cloche","tag-daz-3d","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-gardening","tag-les-guis","tag-lettuce","tag-lie-in","tag-rainstorm","tag-raised-beds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}