{"id":1070,"date":"2009-06-16T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2009-06-24T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:53:26","slug":"16-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"16 June 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/8d03.jpg\" alt=\"8d03\" title=\"8d03\" width=\"282\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1071\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dot and Dave Evetts at or near the summit of a minor peak on Wiveton Downs, near Blakeney. About 145ft, and in case this does not impress you, it is a higher than a blue whale standing on its tail. Or its head. See earlier post for more details of this impressive walk.<\/p>\n<p>England are now out of the world 20-over cricket cup, having allowed West Indies to score 80 in nine overs to win by the ridiculous Duckworth-Lewis method. Our captain, on being asked whether he had considered the weather forecast when he chose to bat, replied: &#8220;Certainly not.&#8221; My question is &#8220;Why on earth not?&#8221; It&#8217;s well known that the second team to bat has an advantage under Duckworth-Lewis, and it was pretty obvious that it was going to rain. England didn&#8217;t really impress, even when beating India. <\/p>\n<p>We had a large amount of rain last night, and I had to go out in it to play chess. Clarification: I wasn&#8217;t actually playing chess in the rain, but I had to get through the rain to reach the venue. In the end I managed to draw after winning a piece for two pawns and failing to preserve the advantage. Rain easing off on the way home, but I still got wet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing the consultant privately tomorrow to clarify certain points about the operation I shall be having shortly. It&#8217;s hard to get over all you want to say during the ten-minute clinic slot, particularly when the guy you&#8217;re talking to hasn&#8217;t had time to read the notes (understandably). I understand it&#8217;s probably a cysto-urethroscopy, which has got to be impressive, hasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Went for a curry with the Savignys on Sunday evening, after taking complete control of the service at St Augustine&#8217;s in the morning. Met at the King&#8217;s Head as usual and went on to the wonderful Ali Tandoori&#8217;s for (in my case) a chicken bhuna and mushroom bhaji. Excellent evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dot and Dave Evetts at or near the summit of a minor peak on Wiveton Downs, near Blakeney. About 145ft, and in case this does not impress you, it is a higher than a blue whale standing on its tail. Or its head. See earlier post for more details of this impressive walk. England are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">16 June 2009<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}