{"id":805,"date":"2006-08-14T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/14\/14-august-2006\/"},"modified":"2009-08-25T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T13:35:41","slug":"14-august-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"14 August 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just for a change, here’s a picture of me and Dot, taken with the IMac’s Photobooth facility. I know the quality’s not high, but I really like it.<\/p>\n

It should have been a picture of my nephew Sam and his bride Lucy, who got married on Saturday, but I don’t have one handy. Maybe next time…<\/p>\n

The weather was a total contrast to the wedding the previous Saturday between Richard and Debbie: then it was really hot and sunny; on Saturday it was coolish and raining steadily most of the time, as well as windy. The wedding was at Dereham Baptist Church, a massive building set so far back in the middle of the town that I had never noticed it, despite its being visible from the EDP offices, which I visit regularly.<\/p>\n

We were fortunate to find on-street parking before getting right to the middle of the town, and it was a five-minute walk to the church. So instead of being late as I anticipated, with difficulties finding parking and heavy traffic, we were almost half an hour early. Very upbeat service in semi-charismatic, bouncy style. Dot and I nipped into the Sticky Bun cafe for a superb rhubarb crumble and cake while photos were being taken (cafe recommended by assistant in Dipples), then set off for reception at Norwich High School.<\/p>\n

Because of the weather, photos were taken inside the school entrance, where there’s a rather splendid staircase. This was followed by a very good meal. I sat next to Adam Crothers, who stayed with us at 22 for three nights. He was one of the ushers (Joe was the other) and he came from Belfast; he is a bit of an expert on Bob Dylan. He is also extremely entertaining in a laid-back style: amazing dry wit. He spent most of the meal charming the bride’s grandmother, who I have to say looked terrific and was also pretty sharp.<\/p>\n

Sam gave a very generous speech, largely off the cuff, which was fluent and well received. It did reveal, however, that he had not mastered the art of understatement.<\/p>\n

Afterwards there was music from Sam’s laptop – carefully selected to ensure maximum dancing. Needless to say , there was only a small amount as usual. Dot and I were about to dance to I Got You Babe, when it was deleted from the playlist, together with Bohemian Rhapsody. So we went home. Not in a fit of pique, but because it was getting late and I had a splitting headache for some reason.<\/p>\n

Now we are awaiting the arrival of the Murrays from Canada – well, from Essex, actually. The house seems pretty much perfect after six months of preparation, and it remains to be seen what we forgot. I can’t remember the last time I had a full night’s sleep.<\/p>\n

We keep getting text messages from the family in France, which is nice. They seem to be having a good time. Dot tries to reply but can’t handle predictive text (nor can I) and can’t work out how to turn it off. Her last message ended: nun. Apparently predictive text won’t accept Mum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just for a change, here’s a picture of me and Dot, taken with the IMac’s Photobooth facility. I know the quality’s not high, but I really like it. It should have been a picture of my nephew Sam and his bride Lucy, who got married on Saturday, but I don’t have one handy. Maybe next … Continue reading 14 August 2006<\/span> →<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-805","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\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}