{"id":4073,"date":"2016-11-30T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:37:30","slug":"catching-the-light-with-a-bit-of-ingenuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Catching the light with a bit of ingenuity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View from the Castle Mound at sunset (after my visit to the museum).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Very cold for the time of year, but happily dry over the last few days. \u00a0Last Friday I took Phil to the doctor’s in the morning, had a long wait in the car park and then a longer one when he had to hang around\u00a0for a heart monitor. \u00a0So I walked to St Benedict’s and bought some new pegs for my guitar: one of them had broken and jammed in the hole, but I managed to free it. I also managed to free a hammer that had got jammed in the drawer by employing an ingenious method involving a hook and a piece of string. Satisfying.<\/p>\n

David, Oliver and Amy came over to celebrate Dot’s birthday at the weekend, arriving mid-afternoon and going back mid-afternoon on Sunday. We had a roast dinner on the Saturday, and Amy used the remains of it to make a curry on the Sunday. I went to church but left early, missing a DCC meeting about the fabric and forgetting to pin up Dot’s Christmas dinner list.<\/p>\n

During the weekend we managed to get in quite a bit of table tennis, and David sorted out my Cloud problems on the computer, caused by duplicate file-saving to different places in the Cloud. Lovely time all round.<\/p>\n

Dot left shortly after David, heading south for a hotel in Croydon in preparation for a philosophy session at Rotherhithe next day.<\/p>\n

On Monday I felt listless but walked up to pay in a cheque and then on a whim went to the Castle Museum, to see (mainly) an exhibition on the photography of Olive Edis. I have to say her pictures of people were sensational, given that they were taken in the late 19th century and early 20th. She knew how to catch the light.<\/p>\n

Dot arrived back just after 7pm.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday Angela and Rodney came round. We went to Prezzo’s for a quite acceptable lunch and then they came back to ours for the afternoon and stayed for a light tea. I showed them some holiday photos, but can’t work out why the TV shows the ones I’ve discarded or edited, and in a very random way. We also listened to some tapes we found in Ethel’s stuff, but there was not much of interest \u2013 just one of Vicki singing as a child, with which they plan to embarrass her as a Christmas “present”. This would have been a really nice day if I hadn’t been feeling rather under the weather for some reason.<\/p>\n

Today I got out of the bath just in time to discover that I had put a visit to the cinema in my diary: so I got a \u00a33 ticket for a seniors’ showing of The Magnificent Seven<\/em> while Dot was at Diocesan House for a meeting with her boss. Very much enjoyed the film.Bought a train ticket for Coventry on the way home. I am due to attend a meeting there tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very cold for the time of year, but happily dry over the last few days. \u00a0Last Friday I took Phil to the doctor’s in the morning, had a long wait in the car park and then a longer one when he had to hang around\u00a0for a heart monitor. \u00a0So I walked to St Benedict’s and … Continue reading Catching the light with a bit of ingenuity<\/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-4073","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\/4073","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=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}