{"id":297,"date":"2006-10-23T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T17:11:30","slug":"three-weeks-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/297","title":{"rendered":"Three Weeks In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been back in the UK for just over three weeks now, although it seems much longer. We flew into Glasgow, hired a car (a Mark 5 VW Golf, which is the best car I&#8217;ve driven yet) and drove up to Comrie Croft for Andrew&#8217;s wedding.<\/p>\n<p>It was pouring with rain the day before the wedding and the day after, but on the day of the wedding it was hot and sunny &#8211; a good thing, not only because it&#8217;s nice to have good weather on your wedding day, but because their wedding was in a clearing in the woods on the side of a hill.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/site\/images\/blog\/2006\/southkilworthhouse.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The day after that we drove down to Leicester to my parents&#8217;, where we stayed the night before moving on to my aunt&#8217;s house in South Kilworth (in the far south of Leicestershire), where we&#8217;ve been staying since then.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been busy house and job hunting, (well, Naomi has been job hunting &#8211; I&#8217;ve been working as usual), and doing lots of visiting. A lot of people have had us round for dinner since we&#8217;ve been back, so I&#8217;m going to have to start playing squash again, otherwise I&#8217;ll start putting on weight.<\/p>\n<p>We have now found a house in Earlsdon, and we&#8217;ll be moving into it as soon as we can. My aunt&#8217;s house is really nice, but it&#8217;s a half hour drive to Coventry where most of my friends live, and over an hour to get to work. We&#8217;re really looking forward to finally having a place of our own.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we currently only have dialup internet at home, hence the lack of bloggage recently. I&#8217;m hoping to get 16Mb broadband at the new place, so then I can blog loads and loads and loads!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been back in the UK for just over three weeks now, although it seems much longer. We flew into Glasgow, hired a car (a Mark 5 VW Golf, which is the best car I&#8217;ve driven yet) and drove up to Comrie Croft for Andrew&#8217;s wedding. It was pouring with rain the day before the &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/297\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}