{"id":9529,"date":"2012-01-01T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:11:22","slug":"sunday-1st-january-2012-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9529","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 1st January 2012 &#8211; HAPPY NEW YEAR &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to all of my readers, but seeing as how we&#8217;ve already done the &#8220;Crewe Bus Station&#8221; story, I&#8217;ll not mention it again. <\/p>\n<p>Except to say that limbo dancing was invented by a Scotsman trying to get into the toilets there without paying.<\/p>\n<p>So having had a little Sunday lie-in, and a quick breakfast, our first stop was the church at the Abbaye de la Cambre again. Marianne is a practising Catholic so I keep on telling her that if she keeps on practising like this, one day she will be perfect. <\/p>\n<p>She certainly deserves a sainthood or whatever it is that they give to heroes in the church, seeing as how she&#8217;s brave enough to risk all kinds of thunderbolts to drag me along. Organised religion is not my thing as you know, but when in Rome and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>We had a nice walk in the Bois de la Cambre this afternoon and ended up going for a coffee. But I&#8217;ve also done another couple of hours on this book. With all of the practising that I&#8217;ve been doing on it, I ought to be perfect now too.<\/p>\n<p>Later this evening, we went out. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an Egyptian restaurant (I had actually thought that it was a Lebanese one) in the neighbourhood that does vegan food so I had booked a table there. No point last night because of what Marianne wanted to see on the TV of course.<\/p>\n<p>That made quite a pleasant change &#8211; we had a very pleasant time and it does us good to break our routine up like this. <\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow is my final day. A long way from being finished but I suppose that much of the time has been spent socialising.I don&#8217;t see enough of people as you know, and you lot are always telling me that I should get out more often. <\/p>\n<p>I like Marianne very much but living here in Brussels and working this 09:00 &#8211; 18:00 routine is definitely not for me. <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-9529 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='9529' 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-9529 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-9529 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='9529' 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-9529 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-9529 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to all of my readers, but seeing as how we&#8217;ve already done the &#8220;Crewe Bus Station&#8221; story, I&#8217;ll not mention it again. Except to say that limbo dancing was invented by a Scotsman trying to get into the toilets there without paying. So having had a little Sunday lie-in, and a quick breakfast, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9950,162,1109,9956,4507,4],"tags":[1111,1673,1113,199,891,9957,2560,274],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbaye-de-la-cambre","category-belgium","category-bois-de-la-cambre","category-egyptian-restaurant","category-eric-hall-2","category-marianne","tag-abbaye-de-la-bois-de-la-cambre","tag-belgium-2","tag-bois-de-la-cambre-2","tag-brussels-2","tag-crewe-bus-station","tag-egyptian-restaurant","tag-eric-hall","tag-marianne-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","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=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9533,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions\/9533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}