{"id":18195,"date":"2020-11-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2020-11-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:00:00","slug":"the-countdown-has-begun-thursday-26th-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/the-countdown-has-begun-thursday-26th-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The countdown has begun – Thursday 26th November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The countdown has begun<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The countdown has begun in earnest. The tree should be delivered today. The wreath arrived yesterday and just needs to be decorated, once it is out of quarantine. Mum put the last of the lights up in the back garden yesterday and, more importantly, she has started wearing her Christmas jumpers. Yesterday was her penguin one and as she\u2019s still in her dressing gown I can\u2019t tell you what today\u2019s is going to be. I\u2019m actually starting to look forward to her turning on all the lights. They worked before she put them up. I just hope they still work when she comes to turn them on. If they don\u2019t then she really isn\u2019t going to be happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleeping on the job<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To be honest it all got a bit too much yesterday and I sloped off to my favourite chair. I was sulking at the time. I\u2019d asked to go outside at one point when Mum was busy on the phone. I guessed that would mean she couldn\u2019t come out with me and I could go foraging. Aristotle had a failed attempt to bring in a half-eaten apple earlier in the day and Mum was not best pleased with him. The point being she wasn\u2019t entirely sure what it had been half-eaten by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, once I was outside, I had a good look over my shoulder to check Mum had gone back in. She had. What I didn\u2019t know was that she was watching out of the window. As I was about to climb into the vegetable trough there was an almighty banging on the window which made me jump. She\u2019s not letting up on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Whilst<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That was when I went off in a sulk and wouldn\u2019t help with any of the decorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The countdown has begun in earnest, but Wilma is sulking and refusing to help. She is still trying to steal the veg.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,123,50,93],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","tag-christmas","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}