{"id":492,"date":"2007-12-02T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/02\/2-december-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T10:24:18","slug":"2-december-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"2 December 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1196619858-sc-259.jpg?w=227\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-493\" \/><\/div>\n<p>J &amp; A came to a meal on Saturday night, and conversation turned to mutual friends, one of whom we knew many, many years ago when we helped to run a youth group. This picture shows, not the mutual friend, but me and our son David. No prizes for guessing who is who. Three of the others are vicars&#8217; sons and one is a bishop&#8217;s son. Talk about exalted company. The connection? This is part of a much bigger picture containing the mutual friend. I hope you&#8217;re following this.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday Dot and I had our hair cut and did some Christmas shopping at Reepham. A friend said she had never found anything worth going to Reepham for, but I like it a lot. Some lovely little alleys, an unusual centre and this rather neat shop in the old station that sells all sorts of strange things. Some good walks in the area too.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we went to Rupert Mallin&#8217;s retrospective exhibition of his parents&#8217; work: Tom and Muriel. Some really good stuff going relatively cheap, as well as some expensive works &#8211; one of which went for \u00a32500 while we were there. Sales seemed to be going well generally. We bought a rather nice picture of Suffolk, plus a couple of woodcuts and two small drawings &#8211; oh, and a copy of Tom&#8217;s novel dedicated to Muriel which may be a first American edition. <\/p>\n<p>Today we went to Communion and then to North Walsham in the afternoon &#8211; visiting Dot&#8217;s aunt and the cemetery, though not in that order. Quite windy, but not cold for the time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J &amp; A came to a meal on Saturday night, and conversation turned to mutual friends, one of whom we knew many, many years ago when we helped to run a youth group. This picture shows, not the mutual friend, but me and our son David. No prizes for guessing who is who. Three of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 December 2007<\/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":[1105,1132,1177,1284],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mallin","tag-northwalsham","tag-reepham","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}