{"id":4996,"date":"2019-06-06T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:26:18","slug":"olive-branches-after-pitch-and-putt-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"Olive branches after pitch and putt debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A rose by any other name…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bit cooler, with some rain last night. But plenty of sun today, and I played a pleasant game of pitch and putt over lunchtime. I was pretty awful, of course, and won only one hole (halved two), but it was good for my steps. Since then I helped Dot pick up an olive tree from Morrisons, because our garden is not full enough. While eating choc ices outside we fed a blackbird that became extremely adjacent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I was out Joe Logan called and tuned the piano for a mere \u00a392 and advised selling David’s for around \u00a3250 in the Harpenden area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have been doing quite a bit of walking . I can’t remember why. When yesterday threatened to be a very poor day, I got a lift with Dot up to Chapelfield, where she picked up her conductor for orchestra practice. I then walked home by a somewhat circuitous route, despite rain clouds threatening, and got my steps up in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous day was easier. It started with a coffee morning up at Prospect House, with the usual suspects in attendance. I then walked to the dentist, who gave me a good clean and suggested some deeper cleaning which I am now having second thoughts about. Later we drove up to Eleanor’s at the Great Hospital, had tea with her and then took her to Cake and Compline at Claire’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleanor’s house is beautiful, with a great close-up view of the cathedral and a lovely feel to it. Would love to live there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous day was PCC. I am no longer on the PCC, but Dot went. She got back very late after giving Elwira a lift home, and I had fallen asleep while reading a Shardlake book \u2013 the first, Dissolution<\/em>. Yesterday the church treasurer resigned. I am not going even slightly near that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend was not the busiest. I led the service on Sunday, which was quite enjoyable, and Saturday was really warm for the Big Lunch up on the Old Library Wood. We didn’t go, but had a look as we went for a carefully timed walk intended to get us back in good time to hand over Des’s keys to his son-in-law. This would have worked well, but said son-in-law rang while we were near the Cloisters to say he had arrived \u2013 over half an hour early. Ho, hum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the evening we watched the European Cup Final, which the literal-minded referee ruined by awarding an unjustified penalty to Liverpool in the 2nd minute. It was all downhill from there \u2013 neither side showed much flair, and Liverpool eventually won 2-0. Pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile I am editing a poetry book for Joy McCall. The deadline is before she dies. Not sure how to take that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bit cooler, with some rain last night. But plenty of sun today, and I played a pleasant game of pitch and putt over lunchtime. I was pretty awful, of course, and won only one hole (halved two), but it was good for my steps. Since then I helped Dot pick up an olive tree from … Continue reading Olive branches after pitch and putt debacle<\/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-4996","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\/4996","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=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}