So.
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\nI’ve been thinking.<\/p>\n
It’s your birthday on Friday 29th June and you’ve cunningly taken that day and the next off.<\/p>\n
And you’re going to come down to London village on Wednesday 27th June after work. So. \u00a0 I’ve been thinking. It’s your birthday on Friday 29th June and you’ve cunningly taken that day and the next off. And you’re going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThought 1:
\n<\/strong>I’m going to buy your ticket. Please don’t argue. Call it a treat. I’ll book it on-line and get it sent to the house.
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\nNB to self… remind me to remind me to flippin’ well remind me (because I absolutely MUST NOT FORGET<\/strong>) to bring a birthday present or two and a card that might be roaming around the house down to London at the start of next week!
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\nThought 2:
\n<\/strong>It’s going to be lateish when you arrive at the London village train station. I’ll pick you up in the car. But because it’s going to be late I suggest we don’t go out Wednesday night; I’ll cook for us in Brixton (somewhere, out in the street, in someone’s car, haven’t decided where to cook yet).
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\nThought 3:
\n<\/strong>I’m working on Thursday; you’ll be fine in the house with Pete and\/or Shane. I’m sorry that the shower-room is a building site. Blame Shane. I do. But the bathroom upstairs is very spacious and functional.
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\nThought 4:
\n<\/strong>If you want to meet for lunch on Thursday that would be nice, but as Thursday is your birthday there’s no pressure, just chill and enjoy yourself.
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\nThought 5:
\n<\/strong>After work we could be really daring and go out for the evening? Perhaps the West End? Or do you want to meet up with Sammi and\/or any of your other London-based friends?<\/strike> Sorry, I’ve\u00a0had another thought (let’s call it Thought 5b<\/strong>) –\u00a0the upshot is we’re going out; it’s booked.
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\nThought 6:
\n<\/strong>Friday,\u00a0I’m working again but\u00a0will finish about 13.30 after which we can enjoy each other’s company on the Long March Home (to almost quote Mao Tse Tung).\u00a0 We’ll probably get home between 16.00-17.00 depending on traffic and toilet breaks.
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\nThought 7:
\n<\/strong>Saturday, I’m not competing so we can spend the day together if you like? Potter around, do a bit of shopping in the morning?. The only thing on our calendar is that we have to be at a place an hour’s drive away from home for the early evening. Oh. Didn’t I tell you this?\u00a0 Sorry. Perhaps we could nip off and see the boys around late morning then take a slow drive to our destination, stopping for lunch en-route, before we get to the thing?
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\nThought 8:
\n<\/strong>Sunday, no plans there either. Spend the day with me? Please? Except… if the weather’s nice perhaps we might pop down to Gloucestershire for a thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"