{"id":4037,"date":"2016-10-20T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2016-10-20T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:28:01","slug":"amy-12-dervish-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4037","title":{"rendered":"Amy 12, Dervish brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amy half her age: on holiday in Wales, aged six.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dot’s visit to Carrow Road last Saturday turned out well, with City winning 3-1 and going top, but since then they’ve slipped down, only drawing with Fulham away after going 2-0 up. \u00a0The weather’s taken a turn for the worse too: while the rest of the country seems to be having \u00a0rather a nice time, we are getting frequent showers.<\/p>\n

Despite that, however, I managed to do some clearing up in the garden today, which is probably the only exercise I’ve had this week, apart from posting some letters. And cards: today is Amy’s 12th birthday! Nearly a teenager \u2013 hard to believe.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday we had lunch with the Hendersons to celebrate Maryta’s birthday, which was actually the day before. Also present were Claire and Martin from Saxlingham.<\/p>\n

Later in the day Dot and I went to The Cut at Halesworth to hear Dervish<\/a>, a brilliant Irish group who have just finished a UK tour. They were superb, and we had good seats. I even spoke to one of the musicians afterwards\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brian McDonagh. He plays the mandolin.\u00a0The singer, Cathy Jordan, is not only a stunning vocalist but very funny in her introductions and tells a great story. A really enjoyable evening.<\/p>\n

On Monday I had to rouse myself early to take Phil to the doctor’s, navigating what is becoming worse and worse traffic in Norwich. There are hold-ups everywhere. The next day\u00a0Dot had to go to the surgery to see a nurse, and I was going to pick her up halfway on Plumstead Road. That turned out to be shut, and although I managed to find her, we had to go across Mousehold, where there was a long queue at the ring road. No surprise there. Today I took Phil to the dentist (the word “taxi” springs to mind), and it took me nearly 20 minutes to get home, because Cattle Market Street is closed for downhill traffic.<\/p>\n

On a brighter note, the Higbees came to lunch yesterday, and Dot cooked a lovely meal. I managed to Airplay the holiday pictures on the television, and Allan tried to sort out problems I was having with Office 365, the online version of Word. He is a bit of an expert, but not familiar with Macs, so had to give up. Much later I solved most of the problems by finding the OneDrive folder hidden in an unexpected place. Still not sure what the app is for, though.<\/p>\n

In the process, however, I managed to put right\u00a0\u00a0what was wrong with Apple TV, and that’s OK now. Things were looking up (and still are), but now I’ve been landed with a 1500-word article for The Magazine, and have to do my usual monthly 500 words or so for Parish Pump. Had a long talk on the phone with Anne, who is very distressed about David and Kristine’s plight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dot’s visit to Carrow Road last Saturday turned out well, with City winning 3-1 and going top, but since then they’ve slipped down, only drawing with Fulham away after going 2-0 up. \u00a0The weather’s taken a turn for the worse too: while the rest of the country seems to be having \u00a0rather a nice time, … Continue reading Amy 12, Dervish brilliant<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4037","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\/4037","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=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}