{"id":820,"date":"2006-07-16T13:39:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/16\/16-july-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-07-16T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T13:39:45","slug":"16-july-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"16 July 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1153082385-sc-121.jpg?w=252\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-auto wp-image-821\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Turning out to be a month of ups and downs. Had a great birthday<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.i1.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/i\/mesg\/tsmileys2\/01.gif\" alt=\"Image\" \/> with Dot at Dunston Hall, and this weekend with David, Vicky and the grandchildren was wonderful. Took them up to a fair on Chapelfield Gardens yesterday, and today we joined in the annual church &#8220;pilgrimage&#8221; to Waxham. The weather was perfect &#8211; warm but with a cooling breeze &#8211; and Oliver and Amy had fun in the sea, followed by a barbecue. Oliver is turning out to be a good little footballer, especially his tackling. His tractor-driving is top-class, too. He gets all the reversing angles right!<\/p>\n<p>The downs? Well, farewell to Dot&#8217;s aunt Evelyn, and now one of my closest friends &#8211; probably the closest over the years &#8211; has to have a quadruple heart bypass operation tomorrow. Spoke to him just now in hospital, and he&#8217;s obviously worried, not only for himself but for his wife. He&#8217;s very resilient and a fighter, so he has a good chance, but so many things can go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is of Dot at Blakeney, looking out to sea.\u00a0 Evocative.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning out to be a month of ups and downs. Had a great birthday with Dot at Dunston Hall, and this weekend with David, Vicky and the grandchildren was wonderful. Took them up to a fair on Chapelfield Gardens yesterday, and today we joined in the annual church &#8220;pilgrimage&#8221; to Waxham. The weather was perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">16 July 2006<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-820","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\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}