{"id":1176,"date":"2008-06-03T21:43:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:18:59","slug":"after-the-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"after the holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned from the wilds of Wales! Well actually St. Davids was very nice, shame our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalcottages.co.uk\/holiday-cottages-uk.asp?cottageref=22898\">cottage<\/a> was damp (when I say damp there were droplets of water on the slate floor!), and has now given us all colds : ( <\/p>\n<p>The weather was pretty good, but I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pembroke-castle.co.uk\/\">Pembroke Castle<\/a> is more of a goer in the dry, rather than the wet, which is how we did it!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of time on the beach, and lots of ice-cream!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/ice_cream_blog.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/ice_cream_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ice_cream_blog\" width=\"450\" height=\"743\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We bought lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bench-bar.co.uk\/ice.shtml\">ice-cream<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bench-bar.co.uk\/\">The Bench<\/a>, they make all their on ice-cream on site and it is divine, I think the cherry was my favourite : )<\/p>\n<p>That is actually the only photo I have to show for the whole holiday, you can see more on my lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokingdrum.co.uk\/\">husbands<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smokingdrum\/\">Flickr photostream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have not done any sewing now for almost two weeks, which to be honest feels like a very long time indeed, I have washed and ironed some new linen, and so there should be some new stuff in the shop within a week or so.<br \/>\nI have a couple of custom bags to make, including a knitting bag, which could be fun! And also I&#8217;m going to be trying my hand with using fasteners, both magnetic ones and even a zip!!!<\/p>\n<p>Today the weather has been so awful all the plants have been knocked over, and my lovely peony is just coming out, <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/peony.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/06\/peony.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"peony\" width=\"450\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I rescued the one in full bloom and another one about to come out, I hope the rain now holds off for a few days so the rest can stay out side as they should do : )<\/p>\n<p>So sewing for me, as I have stuff to show, I will do so, have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned from the wilds of Wales! Well actually St. Davids was very nice, shame our cottage was damp (when I say damp there were droplets of water on the slate floor!), and has now given us all colds : ( The weather was pretty good, but I think that Pembroke Castle is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-and-family-and-food","category-sewing-fabric","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}