{"id":9894,"date":"2017-10-31T22:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2017-10-31T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T22:08:57","slug":"tuesday-31st-october-2017-i-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9894","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 31st October 2017 &#8211; I DECIDED &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1710\/1710141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1710\/1710141.jpg\" alt=\"CARREFOUR CITY CLOSED STOCKTAKING granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>&#8230; to go for a walk down into town this afternoon to do a little shopping. <\/p>\n<p>And so; as you can see, I was having my usual luck when it comes to opening hours and the like. I wasn&#8217;t in any rush this afternoon, and that proved to be my undoing.<\/p>\n<p>It always happens to me, doesn&#8217;t it?<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>This morning, I didn&#8217;t quite manage to crawl out of bed prior to the second alarm going off. That was something of a disappointment as I&#8217;m trying to organise myself a little better. <\/p>\n<p>And it was cold in here too. 12\u00b0C in fact. Had I been in the Auvergne I would have had the heating on as 13.4\u00b0C is the optimal temperature down there, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall. But that wouldn&#8217;t happen inside the attic until mid-November so it shows just how effective the insulation is that I put in the walls and roof.<\/p>\n<p>But with 12\u00b0C in here, it still doesn&#8217;t feel as cold as 13.4\u00b0C does in the Auvergne. So I&#8217;ve made it into November anyway with no heat &#8211; except for the casual heat in the bathroom when I&#8217;m having a shower, and that doesn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty to do on the laptop this morning, and to make matters worse I crashed out for an hour or so sometime during thr proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>Lunch was defrosted bread, and that worked quite well. I shall have to do more of that.<\/p>\n<p>Having continued with some work this afternoon, it was about 15:45 when I went down into the town.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1710\/1710139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1710\/1710139.jpg\" alt=\"grima loading port de commerce granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>My luck was in down at the docks, and it wasn&#8217;t only my luck that was in because my ship had come in too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d told you the other day that the stuff was piling up in the corner of the dock where <em>Grima<\/em> ties up and so I was expecting her arrival any day.<\/p>\n<p>And sure enough, she had arrived on the lunchtime tide, unloaded a pile of scrap, and was busy taking on board the stuff on the quayside.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1710\/1710140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1710\/1710140.jpg\" alt=\"grima loading port de commerce granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;d not seen her load up before so I spent some time watching them piling the stuff on board.<\/p>\n<p>With a skilled crew on board and skilled dockside handlers they were sticking an enormous quantity of stuff on board. <em>Grima<\/em> might only be a small ship but she has an extraordinary capacity for freight.<\/p>\n<p>And it didn&#8217;t make any difference about the time that I had passed on the quayside because the Carrefour would have been closed anyway<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>The Coccinelle didn&#8217;t have any Tahini so I prowled around all of the fine food shops in the town to look for it. Having opened a jar of chick peas and with some left over from the curry last night, I want to make some hummus. Apparenty it can be frozen, which is good news.<\/p>\n<p>My journey took me up past the railway station with no luck, so seeing as I was halfway there, I walked on all the way out to the Bio-Coop. They had some (at a price of course) and I bought some sausages and vegan sandwich spread too.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back I stopped at the LIDL and to my dismay they had sold out of bread. But I bought some onions and potatoes seeing as I was running low.<\/p>\n<p>The 100% of the day&#8217;s efforts came up on the fitbit when I was walking back into town (with still a good way to go) so I could exempt myself from going for a walk tonight. It was late too &#8211; 18:45 when I returned home. A coffee was on the cards after all of that.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was mashed potato, carrots, frozen peas, frozen sprouts, frozen broccoli and a vegan burger. And very nice it all was too. <\/p>\n<p>And now I am off to bed. I&#8217;ve done enougb today, I reckon.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-9894 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='9894' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' 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-9894 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-9894 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='9894' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' 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-9894 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-9894 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to go for a walk down into town this afternoon to do a little shopping. And so; as you can see, I was having my usual luck when it comes to opening hours and the like. I wasn&#8217;t in any rush this afternoon, and that proved to be my undoing. It always happens to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8794,209,8925,4507,1616,8571,9402,46,7876],"tags":[3878,8613,5360,8926,1302,2560,8486,5565,8581,9404,3166,5286,7891,10673],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biocoop","category-carrefour","category-coccinelle","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-grima","category-lidl","category-place-darmes","tag-auvergne","tag-biocoop","tag-carrefour","tag-coccinelle","tag-crash-out","tag-eric-hall","tag-fitbit","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-grima","tag-home-made-hummus","tag-lidl","tag-place-darmes","tag-tahini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894","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=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9895,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}