{"id":773,"date":"2009-03-15T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-03-15T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T10:52:42","slug":"sunday-true-to-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/getting-my-life-back\/sunday-true-to-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday.. true to its name!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/Flat_LR_t.jpg\" alt=\"Living area\" align='left'\/>And it is a lovely sunny day down here in Hampshire!  We are just about to go out for lunch with friends David and Frances (David I have known since I was about 4) but I thought I&#8217;d just do a quick update.<\/p>\n<p>I have now taken over the tenancy of a small but quite comfortable flat.  I took a couple of photos as I was leaving on Friday morning, showing the combined living room\/kitchen, and the bedroom.  Small but comfortable!  There are a couple of small snags to be fixed; the central heating is a bit erratic (I think a problem with the control system) and the grill doesn&#8217;t work, but the agent is on the case to get <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/Flat_K_t.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen\" align='right'\/>those fixed.<\/p>\n<p>The other small snag (that I can&#8217;t do much about) is that there is no off street parking associated with it.  However there is a public car park behind the flat, which is free from 6pm to 8 am, and as I am rarely back before 6 and usually out before 8, that isn&#8217;t a major snag &#8211; and outside those times parking is only 20p\/hour for short term, or just under \u00a35 all day.  I did contemplate a season ticket, but at \u00a380 for 3 months, it hardly seems worthwhile for the little time I would use it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/Flat_BR_t.jpg\" alt=\"Bedroom\" align='left'\/>Other than that, the flat is pretty well equipped, washer\/dryer microwave etc etc.<br \/>\nSo I have now moved in, sorted out a broadband connection (GPRS &#8211; I&#8217;m not bothering to get a landline installed) and should make life more pleasant, and I hope improve my diet as I can now cook for myself.  The nearest Sainsburys is about 15 minutes away, but there is a Somerfield across the road for &#8217;emergency rations&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Not much else to report, a quick trip out last night for a drink with Sue and Mark, fresh from their holiday in France, and after lunch today I shall be sorting out a few more things to take back to the flat.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Onwards and upwards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it is a lovely sunny day down here in Hampshire! We are just about to go out for lunch with friends David and Frances (David I have known since I was about 4) but I thought I&#8217;d just do a quick update. I have now taken over the tenancy of a small but quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-my-life-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}