I started this week with a resolve to take breaks every now and then, get up, stretch my legs, drink tea and just get back in to it.<\/p>\n
As it’s now – checks watch – 13.10 and I’ve been at it since first thing this morning I don’t seem to be doing very well in the resolution stakes, do I?<\/p>\n
So I’m taking a break, enjoying a cuppa and stretching my brain in a different direction…<\/p>\n
Sunday I took Soph off to the hotel where we got married.<\/p>\n
Not straight there, first we stopped in Abergavenny, had a coffee, walked about, people-watched and so on.<\/p>\n
Then we drove to the top of a mountain and walked about a bit – on past Foxhunter’s Grave and up to the Trig Point on The Blorenge peak, from where we worked out we could see five counties and two countries:<\/p>\n
Oh yes, and England and Wales, being the two countries.<\/p>\n
With the cobwebs blown right out of our heads we got back in the car and meandered down off the mountain and away to the hotel.<\/p>\n
Where a wedding was in the offing.<\/p>\n
So let me ask a question – two questions.<\/p>\n
Do women really wear stuff like that on their heads at weddings these days? Or was it simply an elaborate family joke which everyone else wouldn’t get?<\/p>\n
For a brief moment it was like being in the Extreme End of the royal enclosure at Ascot Ladies Day.<\/p>\n
I saw one woman who looked as though she was wearing a massively over-sized version of the kind of foliage that my Pimm’s would usually arrive with.<\/p>\n
All that was missing was a crow in the upper branches and I’d have been looking at a not-very-mini-representation of the upper foliage of the New Forest.<\/p>\n
Kin bonkers.<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
After a little bit of chortling at the various styles of head-dress (and a gasp of wonder at the worst case of mutton masquerading as lamb ever<\/em>!) we went up to our room and against my best intentions there may have been some naughty bed-related activity.<\/p>\n Tsk.<\/p>\n A little before 7.30, freshly scrubbed and smartly dressed, we tottered down to the bar where we sat, aperitif’d and made high-level executive decisions about our next load of calorific intake.<\/p>\n Which somehow, miraculously, turned in to a five course meal – go figure!<\/p>\n Later, feeling very well fed, we rolled upstairs with our fat little bellies, flopped in to bed and – it’s fair to say – suffered a broken night’s sleep as a result of our gluttony.<\/p>\n The following morning we still had cooked breakfast though!<\/p>\n We tottered around the grounds, snapping photographs like a pair of tourists, then went back to our room where more cuddling was had.<\/p>\n Then we packed, paid, left and made our way to Worcester and a small amount of shopping took place and then on homewards.<\/p>\n As soon as we arrived I fixed the podcast website which had been hacked again. Bastards. It only took 28 seconds but that’s not the point. I could have fixed it from Wales except I had made a conscious decision not to take the laptop. Oh well.<\/p>\n I’ve replaced the design for now, because those charming little rogues are not getting in through the root or to the base of the website, so I suspect there’s a security vulnerability in the template that I have been using. Ho hum.<\/p>\n I need a php expert to debug that wordpress theme for me. Or perhaps I need to learn php and debug it myself. Because I have so much time on my hands… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Last night we had an early night, I think we were in bed before 19.30.<\/p>\n Two episodes of Angel filled the time between hitting the sheets and eyes closing for the night.<\/p>\n The shattering alarm this morning was not pleasant but I had a soft\/firm and very beautiful woman in my arms, so waking couldn’t have been any better. Except for the alarm.<\/p>\n And that’s it really: travelled, walked, talked (there was, it must be said, much talking between us), people-watched, ate, travelled…<\/p>\n I haven’t even mentioned the Amazing Drunk Woman in the restaurant at dinner! So many things, so little time.<\/p>\n Speaking of, it’s now 13.38 and time I had something to eat.<\/p>\n Speak later.<\/p>\n But before I go… How was your weekend? Did you get up to anything or did you choose to use the Bank Holiday (if you had one) to just veg out?<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>. x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started this week with a resolve to take breaks every now and then, get up, stretch my legs, drink tea and just get back<\/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-676","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\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}