{"id":4868,"date":"2018-12-31T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2019-01-04T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:01:15","slug":"christmas-week-a-bit-of-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Christmas week a bit of a puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amy takes charge while David is momentarily absent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Christmas meal was delicious, and the whole day relaxing (after washing up). In the evening we watched Love Actually<\/em>, which had been panned in the local paper but which was in fact as good as I remembered.<\/p>\n

The weather over the past week has become milder and has been largely dry. David left us on Boxing Day to return to Caddington and receive Oliver and Amy from Vicky. \u00a0All three of them came up to us the following day, arriving in time for the evening meal and the opening of many more presents.<\/p>\n

David has spent much of the time attempting to complete a 1000-word puzzle, with help mainly from Amy. \u00a0It is still uncertain whether he will finish in time to take it home tomorrow. It has rather dominated the living room but has not prevented us watching a couple of films, such as Justice League<\/em> and Die Hard<\/em>\u00a0on Netflix.\u00a0To my surprise I had not seen the latter before. I thought it was excellent.<\/p>\n

On Friday Sam and Lucy came round with Elliott (5), who was entertained by Oliver (or vice versa) using a couple of chess sets. All of them (except Oliver) will be moving to Buckinghamshire next stunner, as Sam has a new job.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend we played a bit of table tennis: Amy has improved vastly and could clearly be quite talented at it. Oliver continues to be very good. Other than this we didn’t go out much, except occasional forays to the shops. A projected evening out at the D’Souzas’ was postponed twice because first Chris and then Des was ill.<\/p>\n

On the Saturday Dot went to Carrow Road but was disappointed when City lost 4-3 to Derby after the lights went out and the teams were taken off for a break. I met her in Morrisons afterwards, and we bought more food.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Dot and I went separately (for timing reasons) to church for a joint Communion with St Luke’s. Anna had a stomach problem; so the music group was Dot, me and Simon Snell on bass guitar, which worked surprisingly well. We even did one of my songs during Communion. I helped clear up while Dot went home and was last out with Ray. Christine didn’t come because she has a stomach problem, which Ray fears is related to her cancer.<\/p>\n

M showed up at 22 while we were at church and after insisting that it was Saturday asked David to drive her home \u2013 an opportunity he wisely declined. She also called in yesterday while I was out for a walk.<\/p>\n

My walking has been suffering badly, and I went out for a walk late in the day yesterday to reach 5000 steps. As I also played table tennis with Amy a lot, I finished up pretty tired. David had done a bake to follow up an excellent fish pie the previous day; so he has certainly done his share of the cooking. We ended the day playing Carcassonne, to which Oliver had received an extension for Christmas. Very clever and pleasing game; so I didn’t do well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Christmas meal was delicious, and the whole day relaxing (after washing up). In the evening we watched Love Actually, which had been panned in the local paper but which was in fact as good as I remembered. The weather over the past week has become milder and has been largely dry. David left us … Continue reading Christmas week a bit of a puzzle<\/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-4868","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\/4868","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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}