{"id":3430,"date":"2015-01-05T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2015-01-05T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:43:42","slug":"crawling-into-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"Crawling into another year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amy helping Daddy to relax in Prezzo’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feeling very down and tired, which is not the ideal start to a new year. Slept very little last night, stirred myself\u00a0just enough to get Dot a cup of tea\u00a0at 7.20am\u00a0before she left for a P4C session at Heather Avenue, then lay awake till after 9.30. Eventually had a bath and crawled downstairs about 11.30am. Cannot work up enthusiasm for anything.<\/p>\n

We did have a lovely time with David and the children, managing to do something every day. Last Tuesday (the 30th) we visited Jessie, and on the way there I dropped off and delivered a cheque to Rob Knee, having a brief chat with him and Penny before walking the rest of the way. Cold but moderately invigorating, I seem to remember.<\/p>\n

On New Year’s Eve we had a pizza and drink at the Hendersons’ at lunch time. In the evening Roger came round for a meal, and the festivities included the mandatory quizzes \u2013 including two very hard photo quizzes from the children which took us up to midnight. There was a brief concert from Queen on TV, with their new (very good) lead singer.<\/p>\n

On New Year’s Day, after something of a lie-in, we all went to see The Penguins of Madagascar<\/em> at the cinema, and I only dozed off once or twice. It was actually quite reasonable, and the children enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

The next day Birgit and Joe came round in the morning, and after a light lunch we headed for the Maddermarket to see The Borrowers, <\/em>which was really excellent, making light of\u00a0the obvious problems in staging. The actors were superb, and it was just the right length. By accident we got five seats behind each other downstairs, and this caused some concern until it became clear that the adjacent seats were not going to be filled, and so David and the children were able to sit together.<\/p>\n

On Saturday Richard, Maddy and Darcy came round both before and after lunch at Prezzo’s, and when they departed in late afternoon, David and the children packed and\u00a0headed home while we did a bit in the house.<\/p>\n

On Sunday we woke to a frozen street, and it took me some time to get the car going. Even when it did it insisted on telling us that the tyre pressure was wrong: not sure yet if this was a result of the cold, or if there is indeed a genuine problem. A visual check revealed nothing obvious.<\/p>\n

Rather an odd morning at church, or maybe it was just me. Eleanor, who was presiding at Communion, had a bad cough and so Dot distributed the bread while I sang. Phil was away, as were several other people, but we got a few from Carrie’s group there, plus a Latvian couple who wanted to have their baby baptised. When we left, Anna and a helping group were solving a problem with\u00a0one of the curtains.<\/p>\n

I had a quick look for a stopcock, which Stuart has been writing e-mails about, but couldn’t see anything obvious. Back home I tried to get the new Apple TV\u00a0to work (David kindly bought it for us at Christmas), but after some partial success failed almost completely. On the plus side, we can now watch YouTube and see Flickr on the TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feeling very down and tired, which is not the ideal start to a new year. Slept very little last night, stirred myself\u00a0just enough to get Dot a cup of tea\u00a0at 7.20am\u00a0before she left for a P4C session at Heather Avenue, then lay awake till after 9.30. Eventually had a bath and crawled downstairs about 11.30am. … Continue reading Crawling into another year<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[870,904,1871,969,1045,1074,1426,1870,1135,1946,1740,1188],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy","tag-birgit","tag-darcy","tag-david","tag-hendersons","tag-jessie","tag-joe","tag-maddy","tag-oliver","tag-prezzo","tag-richard","tag-roger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","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=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}