{"id":3134,"date":"2017-08-15T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2017-08-15T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:03:13","slug":"what-a-lovely-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"What A Lovely Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had a most charming and delightful day, hosting the ladies from the Royal Exchange Theatre Costume Hire department (where I volunteer on Tuesdays) for lunch at my house, because I&#8217;ve been talking about it for years to them and they all wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So we closed the place and they all came up for a look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3136\" alt=\"20170815_134303\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170815_134303.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luda, the manager, and Joan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3137\" alt=\"20170815_135159\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170815_135159.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jane (whose garden I visited while dropping her off, and it was amazing, I should have taken pictures) and Norma<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3138\" alt=\"20170815_135203\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170815_135203.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave and Gill (and Joan again)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3139\" alt=\"20170815_135207\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170815_135207.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They were all perfectly delightful and said very nice things about my house. What a lovely bunch of people. I hope they can all come back. Maybe we can make it an annual thing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a picture of me doing something inadvisable in the name of getting an accurate (ish) measurement. Hi, ma! I&#8217;m still alive!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3140\" alt=\"20170815_measuring\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170815_measuring.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it was flying ant day the other day. Always a little creepy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"20170813_175213\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170813_175213.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had a most charming and delightful day, hosting the ladies from the Royal Exchange Theatre Costume Hire department (where I volunteer on Tuesdays) for lunch at my house, because I&#8217;ve been talking about it for years to them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}