{"id":222,"date":"2007-03-18T19:35:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2007-03-18T19:35:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T19:35:56","slug":"sunday-battening-down-the-hatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/life-on-hold\/sunday-battening-down-the-hatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8230; battening down the hatches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/tree_t2.jpg\" alt=\"Tree\" align='left'\/>Certainly the weather forecast is not very good, and we have had some strong winds both this afternoon and last night &#8211; with more to come!  I expect the blossom on this tree may be gone by morning!  However, no power cuts (yet?) so we will see what the evening brings.<\/p>\n<p>However the main reason for this post is just to pop up another photo of Olivia.  It is a couple of weeks since I last posted one, and even in a couple of weeks I think you will see some change in her!  She isn&#8217;t always quite as placid as the photograph might indicate, although as I write this, she has been asleep for about 3 hours!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/olivia_asleep_march_t.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia\" align='right'\/>We had a visit from university friend Tom, and his wife Carol, yesterday!  Good to seee them again, we shared a flat and house for 3 years, and still remain friends (as with the two medics that we shared with.  Somehow (?) Tom is of the opinion that I am eating lots of bacon at the moment (can&#8217;t think why) so he kindly brought a get well present of bacon and sausages!  They were delicious for brunch today!  Tom also remarked that I looked a lot better than when he last saw me, about a month ago, so it must be true!<\/p>\n<p>Richard started a trend a couple of weeks ago with his sock images, so I thought I&#8217;d add mine to the collection &#8211; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/feet_t.jpg\" alt=\"Feet\" align='left'\/> and here they are!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, remember that the blog is best viewed using something like Opera or Firefox.  You can download Firefox with the Google task bar from the button at the top of the page, or get Opera and basic Firefox from the links on the right.  Both are excellent (free) alternatives to Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Onwards and Upwards &#8211; and Happy Mothering Sunday to all mothers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly the weather forecast is not very good, and we have had some strong winds both this afternoon and last night &#8211; with more to come! I expect the blossom on this tree may be gone by morning! However, no power cuts (yet?) so we will see what the evening brings. However the main reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-on-hold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}