{"id":938,"date":"2010-03-04T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=938"},"modified":"2017-06-29T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:47:52","slug":"i-had-quite-a-surprise-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 4th March 2010 &#8211; I had quite a surprise this morning &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1003009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1003009.jpg\" alt=\"old cars mercedes 240d w123 ford cortina 5 ford transit les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>&#8230; despite the torrential rain all yesterday afternoon, evening and through the night, the garden fire was still smoking this morning. It wouldn&#8217;t restart though, but nevertheless it was quite something to see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally reached the hedge at the back of the vehicles &#8211; you&#8217;ve no idea how many brambles I&#8217;ve had to scythe my way through &#8211; and I&#8217;ve made a start on cutting down the overhanging branches (and there are plenty to go at). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1003010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1003010.jpg\" alt=\"old cars mercedes 240d w123 ford cortina 5 ford transit les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;ve also cut around the far side of the old Transit so that is now totally clear of undergrowth so once I&#8217;ve burnt all of the weeds and brambles and the like (that&#8217;s another fire for tomorrow) I can drag that out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>So this afternoon I emptied the greenhouse and got ot ready for cleaning. I&#8217;ll be buying some seeding soil on Saturday to get ready for the sowing but I need to clean the plastic sheeting of the greenhouse and get it ready to move it to its new home. It&#8217;s all getting quite exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I also had a play with the Ford Escort but I couldn&#8217;t get it started &#8211; I think that the fuel cut-off valve is stuck. Ordinarily it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered very much &#8211; I would have just pulled it out with Caliburn, dragged it down the lane and then rolled it backwards down the hill into its new position. I might have managed it on my own but it&#8217;s one of those things that&#8217;s unequivocal &#8211; once you have started you really need to finish it because you can&#8217;t leave it blocking the lane and at the point where it&#8217;s likely to become stuck there isn&#8217;t anything like a handy tree to attach the chain winch to help me along. It&#8217;s the kind of project that I&#8217;m going to leave until I have visitors.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-938 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='938' data-nonce='5188def254' 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-938 lc'>+8<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-938 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='938' data-nonce='5188def254' 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-938 unlc'>-6<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-938 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; despite the torrential rain all yesterday afternoon, evening and through the night, the garden fire was still smoking this morning. It wouldn&#8217;t restart though, but nevertheless it was quite something to see. I&#8217;ve finally reached the hedge at the back of the vehicles &#8211; you&#8217;ve no idea how many brambles I&#8217;ve had to scythe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,281],"tags":[309,5381,2560,1199,1198,896,5565,751,390,1205,5366,895,5370],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-old-cars","tag-bonfire","tag-caliburn","tag-eric-hall","tag-ford-cortina","tag-ford-escort","tag-ford-transit","tag-france","tag-garden-fire","tag-gardening","tag-greenhouse","tag-les-guis","tag-mercedes-240d","tag-old-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8510,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}