{"id":411,"date":"2008-03-04T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T09:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/04\/4-march-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T09:24:37","slug":"4-march-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"4 March 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1204651477-sc-303.jpg?w=240\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-412\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Granddaughter Amy turns on the charm &#8211; something she&#8217;s extremely good at. Meanwhile her brother Oliver has learned to swim underwater. I personally have no problem getting under water, but I can&#8217;t swim there. I can sink quite well. Oliver has also started e-mailing us, so it&#8217;s clearly just a question of time before he has his own website.<\/p>\n<p>Dot has pretty much finished the living room, and all the pictures have been rearranged, because some of the frames didn&#8217;t suit the new paint. All looks good, I have to say. We&#8217;re just back from the city, where we ordered new insides for our sofa cushions to try to stop them falling forward. I wonder if I would stop falling forward if I had new insides. We also put some money in Dot&#8217;s ISA, so of course we got the hard sell about switching to an online one. I really can&#8217;t be bothered arguing any more, so we&#8217;re going to do that. Needless to say, we&#8217;ve heard nothing from the insurance company. What would it take to get them to react? A pile of manure on their doorstep? No, I&#8217;m not going to do that. Oh, I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s an idea.<\/p>\n<p>Bought some food from M&amp;S and then had a look at some lights in John Lewis. Weather is very cold and windy, as it was on Sunday (Mother&#8217;s Day), when we went to North Walsham cemetery and also to the Rosary, where we found that my parents&#8217; grave had been totally refurbished, with a new headstone and words. Looks really terrific. I haven&#8217;t had the bill yet.<\/p>\n<p>It was cold yesterday too, when I played for my club&#8217;s A team at The Goat, Skeyton, which is so in the middle of nowhere that I suspect the home team were hoping to pick up a few points from defaults when opposing players couldn&#8217;t find it. Well, we all found it (I know it well, of course), but we might as well not have done because only our captain managed to avoid losing. I played weakly again after my momentary resurgence in February.<\/p>\n<p>Saw the nurse again this morning, who repeated her usual mantra that my blood pressure  was just below the level where they would start prescribing things. I&#8217;m amazed it&#8217;s not higher after this last week, but even if they do prescribe things, I have no intention of taking them.<br \/>\nInstead I have an olive oil spray to get rid of some of the wax in my ears. How romantic is that?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve submitted a couple of poems and short piece of fiction for the Fish competitions. I think the piece of fiction is really quite good, so it clearly has no chance. That&#8217;s the way competitions work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granddaughter Amy turns on the charm &#8211; something she&#8217;s extremely good at. Meanwhile her brother Oliver has learned to swim underwater. I personally have no problem getting under water, but I can&#8217;t swim there. I can sink quite well. Oliver has also started e-mailing us, so it&#8217;s clearly just a question of time before he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4 March 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":[870,946,958,1400,1031,1134,1135],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy","tag-chess","tag-cold","tag-goat","tag-grave","tag-nurse","tag-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}