{"id":2329,"date":"2008-11-06T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneandonly.me.uk\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2008-11-06T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T07:17:45","slug":"thursday-6th-november-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/thursday-6th-november-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 6th November 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that\u2019s another bonfire night out of the way, or not! I know that yesterday was the 5<sup>th<\/sup> of November, I saw it on the calendar and yet people seem to use it as an excuse to have bonfires for a week or so, with most of them having them on a night at a weekend instead of the actual day. Either it is the 5<sup>th<\/sup> of November or it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s like holding Christmas on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of December because it\u2019s more convenient.<\/p>\n<p>We seem to be having a \u2018fix it\u2019 week. This is great from my point of view. Not because I have been fed up because of the lack of hot water or the intermittent electricity supply. No, I have enjoyed it because I have had the chance to meet and greet a builder, a couple of plumbers and some men from the electricity board. I welcomed them as only a dog can get away with and none of them seemed too put out. I\u2019d met one of them before, he owns the sheep that come and make friends with me every so often, but the others were all new to me and I have to say they weren\u2019t bad.<\/p>\n<p>We no longer have a dripping tap, pipes that aren\u2019t where they should be, cold water instead of hot or a variable electricity supply. We are reserving judgement on whether they have stopped the pipes trying to play the national anthem every time you flush the loo. I\u2019m not actually sure whether the purpose of that exercise is to stop them making a noise or to tune them so that it is more enjoyable to listen to. It\u2019s ok when it is just my Mistress in the house, but when everyone is here and toilets are flushing regularly it really does get to the point where you can\u2019t hear yourself think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Well that\u2019s another bonfire night out of the way, or not! I know that yesterday was the 5th of November, I saw it on the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/thursday-6th-november-2008\/\" title=\"Thursday 6th November 2008\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}