{"id":2624,"date":"2009-03-23T06:44:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T06:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneandonly.me.uk\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2009-03-23T06:44:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T06:44:41","slug":"monday-23rd-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2009\/03\/23\/monday-23rd-march-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 23rd March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, alarmingly, things seem to improve. My Mistress had to go to the DVLA office the other day. Last time she had to go to the one in Stockton on Tees, she came away feeling depressed and angry that the service was so bad. This time she was shocked by how efficient they are. There she was with her book, ready to sit for an hour and a half waiting. Instead, within ten minutes she was in and out and found herself with time to kill before her next appointment. I like to think it may be because they took notice of my complaining on her behalf, however, if I\u2019m being honest I suspect that is very unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>The ducks might have found a new source of entertainment. There appear to be two footballs in the pond. Now I don\u2019t know whether they have been using them as football\u2019s or whether they may have been playing volleyball but so far I haven\u2019t actually caught them playing. I\u2019m going to have another look later as I imagine if I can photograph them in the act I could probably sell the photograph to some gullible person.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend my Mistress needs to use a train. The only problem is that the trains may be on strike. Now she doesn\u2019t know what to do. I think she may be taking the ostrich approach and hoping the whole problem will go away. It\u2019s either that or start walking now, which is all very well as long as she doesn\u2019t want me to walk with her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Every once in a while, alarmingly, things seem to improve. My Mistress had to go to the DVLA office the other day. Last time she <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2009\/03\/23\/monday-23rd-march-2009\/\" title=\"Monday 23rd March 2009\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","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\/2624","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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}