{"id":528,"date":"2007-10-23T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/23\/23-october-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T11:22:10","slug":"23-october-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"23 October 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1193163730-sc-245.jpg?w=333\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-529\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is Alderfen Broad, where we walked just over a week ago. But this last weekend was even more special: Amy&#8217;s third birthday. <\/p>\n<p>We arrived at Caddington about noon, to be greeted by two delightful grandchildren. One of the great things about grandchildren is that they&#8217;re always so excited to see you. We shall make the most of this before it wears off. Already they seem quite grown up: Oliver a mature five and Amy an enthusiastic three. She got a giant doll&#8217;s house for her birthday from her parents, and we bought her a couple of dolls for it. Oliver also bought her a doll. Amy can&#8217;t get enough dolls. She also got a CD player; now both of them have one, which makes things quite noisy, as of course one can&#8217;t have it on without the other wanting theirs on. <\/p>\n<p>In the evening we watched England lose to South Africa in the rugby world cup final, which wasn&#8217;t altogether surprising, but it was a much closer game than might have been anticipated. Added to Lewis Hamilton losing the world championship the following day, and it wasn&#8217;t a great British sporting weekend. Norwich and Spurs also lost. <\/p>\n<p>Julia and Dave came over on the Sunday and we had a second party, with the cake making a reappearance, complete with candles. We left early to organise the evening&#8217;s Ambient Wonder event, which went surprisingly well, with about 20 people turning up and a variety of things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Dot reorganised the garage, and I cleared out my rooom, which was satisfying. Later I lost a chess game, which wasn&#8217;t. Today I have been through lots of old papers that have been lying in my room for a long time. Some interesting stuff and a lot of rubbish, now sorted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Alderfen Broad, where we walked just over a week ago. But this last weekend was even more special: Amy&#8217;s third birthday. We arrived at Caddington about noon, to be greeted by two delightful grandchildren. One of the great things about grandchildren is that they&#8217;re always so excited to see you. We shall make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">23 October 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":[870,930,1019,1194],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy","tag-cake","tag-garage","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}