{"id":252,"date":"2008-08-13T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/13\/13-august-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:26:07","slug":"13-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"13 August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1218659167-sc-367.jpg?w=333\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-253\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Another picture from Sunday &#8211; this one is of our friends Bridget and David Archer, members of our Tuesday Group and just two of many who didn&#8217;t come last night, when we almost had an all-time low of three until Claire turned up late. Vicky was the other one, and the four of us had a very pleasant evening. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier Dot and I had been out to Paston to deliver some acetates for Lucy. Jack was there, looking quite chirpy at 95, and so was Naomi, plus Lucy&#8217;s sister, niece, niece&#8217;s husband and great-nephew. So obviously we had a cup of tea and passed a pleasant half hour before departing for North Walsham to drop in on Jessie for another cup of tea. She had fallen over on some uneven pavement and had a few cuts, but seemed more or less OK. I instructed her not to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home we saw evidence of the downpour that had swept across a narrow band of Norfolk in the morning and kept us in bed (well, it doesn&#8217;t take a downpour to keep us in bed, but it&#8217;s a good excuse). By afternoon it was was reasonably pleasant, but the showers have continued into today, and the forecast is not too wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>According to my <em>Norfolk Almanac of Disasters<\/em>, nothing really bad has ever happened here on August 13, and this record continued today, as far as I know. Dot went down to Suffolk just in case, but mainly to meet Barbara, with whom she is working on Thinking Skills for Children. I got quite a lot done in her absence, including fetching a prescription, giving a bit of money away and reading an interesting essay on Kafka by Zadie Smith (in the <em>Telegraph<\/em> Review section). Have been in contact with Flip technical help about my new camcorder, which won&#8217;t connect properly to the computer, and it looks as if I&#8217;ll be getting a new one. This evening I&#8217;ve printed out all the Paston poems on quality paper so that they can be put up on exhibition. Dot continues on her mammoth task of sorting out all our photographs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also entered five poems (mainly from the hospital series) in the Aesthetica Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another picture from Sunday &#8211; this one is of our friends Bridget and David Archer, members of our Tuesday Group and just two of many who didn&#8217;t come last night, when we almost had an all-time low of three until Claire turned up late. Vicky was the other one, and the four of us had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">13 August 2008<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1074,1081,1146,1174],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jessie","tag-kafka","tag-paston","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}