{"id":9987,"date":"2017-12-06T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2017-12-06T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:12:18","slug":"wednesday-6th-december-2017-he-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9987","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 6th December 2017 &#8211; HE WAS RIGHT &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the skipper of the <em>Grima<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushing to get away last night because he reckoned that the weather was going to turn today. And when I went out for my walk this afternoon, turned it certainly had. It wasn&#8217;t quite the violent wind that blew me back into the apartment the other day, but it wasn&#8217;t far off.<\/p>\n<p>And furthermore, instead of blowing from the north, it was blowing from the south-west, so it didn&#8217;t hit me until I&#8217;d rounded the headland by the lighthouse. It was so violent that it was no surprise that there were no more than four of five of us out for a stroll. I even had to find a new way back to the apartment to avoid the searing blast of wind up the alleyway.<\/p>\n<p>This evening, if anything, the wind was worse. It was okay walking around underneath the north wall of the Medieval town, but once I rounded the walls to the south side, the blast was phenomenal. If it keeps up like this we&#8217;ll all know about it. It&#8217;s no surprise that there was only me and one other person out there tonight. Not even a cat to stroke.<\/p>\n<p>But apart from that, I had a better night last night. I was away on my travels during the night &#8211; trying to find some second-hand tyres for my Ford Cortina. A Charity Shop came up with the goods. They had two at \u00a310:00 each so I paid up happily &#8211; but was disappointed when I saw them because there wasn&#8217;t much tread on them. And by the time that I had paid for the fitting and balancing and the like, I wasn&#8217;t getting a good deal at all.<br \/>\nA little later I was walking along a mothballed railway line which was maintained in good condition with the buildings in good repair. The thing that struck me though was that every mile or so there was a platelayer&#8217;s telephone in an old red BT telephone box. <\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I had a quiet day with these photos &#8211; slowly whittling them down into manageable numbers and deleting the duplicates, of which there are plenty. And going for walkies of course.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was the remains of Sunday&#8217;s vegan meat loaf, with potatoes carrots peas and broccoli done in the microwave vegetable steamer. And that worked well enough, especially with the gravy made from the water.<\/p>\n<p>So thnight I&#8217;ll have an early night. I need to be on form tomorrow as I have to make my travel arrangements for next week.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-9987 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='9987' data-nonce='55fbbd554e' 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-9987 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-9987 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='9987' data-nonce='55fbbd554e' 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-9987 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-9987 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the skipper of the Grima. He was rushing to get away last night because he reckoned that the weather was going to turn today. And when I went out for my walk this afternoon, turned it certainly had. It wasn&#8217;t quite the violent wind that blew me back into the apartment the other day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[212,2560,5565,8581,9404,1180,7891],"class_list":["post-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-grima","tag-high-winds","tag-place-darmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","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=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}