{"id":17876,"date":"2021-10-19T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=17876"},"modified":"2021-10-19T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:51:03","slug":"guess-what-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/guess-what-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess what…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Bouet, the mayor of Fleurac who has been fighting my case with the water and electricity suppliers, originally told me that the workmen would be along yesterday to do the necessary work to connect me up to electricity. I wasn’t too surprised when they didn’t show up but continud to live in hope.<\/p>\n

He dropped by again today to tell me that he had just approved a request to dig up the road opposite my land and that they would definitely be along tomorrow. I said that I’d be very happy if they did their stuff any time this week.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the afternoon a hirsute young man with a full bushy beard together with another more earnest looking young man clutching a photocopied map pulled up in a work van on the road just outside my caravan. After a brief conversation we shook hands and he said that they’ll be along tomorrow mornng at about 9.30 am to do the job.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I found parked up near the ‘poubelles’ (waste bins) a few minutes ago when I popped out to Rouffignac to pick up a few things.<\/p>\n

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Hurrah! And it shows that Mr Bouet’s efforts bore results because originally SDE24, the organisation responsible, originally said that the work was scheduled for week 47, mid-November. It helps to have powerful friends with contacts in France \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr Bouet, the mayor of Fleurac who has been fighting my case with the water and electricity suppliers, originally told me that the workmen would be along yesterday to do the necessary work to connect me up to electricity. I wasn’t too surprised when they didn’t show up but continud to live in hope. He … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17882,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876\/revisions\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}