{"id":9352,"date":"2017-07-18T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2017-07-18T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T21:30:11","slug":"tuesday-18th-july-2017-crash-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9352","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 18th July 2017 &#8211; CRASH! BANG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not doing the washing-up.<\/p>\n<p>There I was at lunchtime sitting on my wall at lunchtime eating my butties and admiring the view (and watching the <em>Grima<\/em> depart for Jersey with a full load of stuff on board) and thinking to myself &#8220;it&#8217;s going a bit dark across the bay round by Cancale&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Back here at about 15:30 the most enormous hurricane sprang up &#8211; totally astonishing; I stuck my head out of the window and I could see the wild storm lashing the rocks.<\/p>\n<p>About 5 minutes later it went as black as pitch and I thought &#8220;hey up &#8211; we&#8217;ll get the lot in a minute!&#8221; and I hadn&#8217;t even finished saying it when there was the most impressive flash of lightning followed by an incredible thunderclap.<\/p>\n<p>And then we had the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Sheets and sheets of it, with the orchestra and light show rumbling on and on.<\/p>\n<p>It all cleared up after about half an hour and we were then back in the sunshine. But that was so impressive. I really enjoyed the show.<\/p>\n<p>What else that was impressive was that I was out like a light last night and slept right though until the alarm went off. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember too much abut my little voyage last night though. Except that it was in Luxembourg &#8211; or was it Liechtenstein &#8211; and a visit to the country&#8217;s tax office, only to find that because of the small size of the country there wasn&#8217;t enough room for the Government offices there so they were all in the next town in a neighbouring country.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;ve been pressing on with the blog. And most of the time has been spent <a href=\"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9315\">on just one particular page<\/a>. 2300 or so words on there, and it&#8217;s hard to believe that there wasn&#8217;t even a placeholder there before.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, I&#8217;ve probably done another 9 or 10 too and I&#8217;m in April 2011. And I would have done even more had I not &#8230; errr &#8230; had a little rest.<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t be so easy in a bit though because there&#8217;s a huge mess of pages to untangle from when I was in the UK. It&#8217;s hard to believe that I went from March 2009 to early summer 2011 without setting foot in the Perfidious Albion except for <a href=\"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?cat=6864\">a day trip to pick up the tile cutter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, apart from <a href=\"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?cat=1915\">a quick day trip for Terry&#8217;s slates<\/a>, I&#8217;ve not been there since December 2012. And I can&#8217;t say that I miss it any. My future is well and truly here.<\/p>\n<p>And those of you with long memories will remember me moaning a while back about a data cable for my Canadian mobile phone, and Rhys using the medium of the &#8220;comments&#8221; page to show me on that he had seen?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it arrived in the post today. <\/p>\n<p>So many grateful thanks from me, and you will be receiving a plain brown envelope in the post shortly after I set foot in Montreal. <\/p>\n<p>The comments facility on this blog is a powerful thing. Why don&#8217;t you try it some time?<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-9352 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='9352' data-nonce='eb71725199' 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-9352 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-9352 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='9352' data-nonce='eb71725199' 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-9352 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-9352 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not doing the washing-up. There I was at lunchtime sitting on my wall at lunchtime eating my butties and admiring the view (and watching the Grima depart for Jersey with a full load of stuff on board) and thinking to myself &#8220;it&#8217;s going a bit dark across the bay round by Cancale&#8221;. 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