{"id":6302,"date":"2008-05-12T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T08:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2008\/05\/time-to-catch-up\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T08:26:14","slug":"time-to-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/time-to-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things that I haven&#8217;t had\/made time to remark upon here in the last week or so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my gorgeous wife had a birthday. The three of us went to London for the day and ambled around Covent Garden, Regent Street, Tate Britain and the South Bank. Tom was particularly impressed with the sculpture at the Tate, remarking that The Three Graces have bottoms &#8220;just like Mummy&#8217;s&#8221;, which is possibly the best compliment a girl could wish for.<\/li>\n<li>subsequently, my gorgeous wife went on holiday with her mum to Morocco, leaving son and husband to fend for themselves. Thanks to sitting in train stations with poorly-inked cardboard signs, we survived this ordeal and only went to the pub once.<\/li>\n<li>Hels and I completed the 20km JustWalk on Saturday in blistering (literally) heat. We were accompanied by our brother-in-law Kevin all the way round the circuit and were able to enjoy some lovely views and some splendid wild flowers. But it was bloomin&#8217; hot and we had to work hard to keep hydrated and to avoid heat stroke. The sections of the walk in the open were particularly hard, especially the mile or so down the south-facing slope into Charlton which was on a chalk and flint track in a bit of a dip &#8211; no breeze, bright intense sun, no shade and lots of reflected light and heat from the surface. Thanks to some remarkably generous people, we have now passed our original sponsorship target of \u00a3500, for the Parkinson&#8217;s Disease Society but we still want to raise more money. What do you mean, you haven&#8217;t sponsored us yet? <a title=\"please, please, pretty pleeeaase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/grahamandhels\" target=\"_blank\">Go here and give now<\/a>, please and thank you.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and it&#8217;s my birthday today. I&#8217;m already enjoying my <a title=\"Kraak en Smaak - new album\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kraaksmaak.com\" target=\"_blank\">first present<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things that I haven&#8217;t had\/made time to remark upon here in the last week or so: my gorgeous wife had a birthday. The three of us went to London for the day and ambled around Covent Garden, Regent Street, Tate Britain and the South Bank. Tom was particularly impressed with the sculpture at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-married-life","category-personal","category-tom","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}