{"id":258,"date":"2007-09-15T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-09-15T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:03:57","slug":"home-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/258","title":{"rendered":"Home alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think you can trust people and then you find that they have sneaked off without you!!<\/p>\n<p>I had a bit of a lie in this morning and got up to find the house empty. I assumed they had all gone off to Patchings, a little surprising since I know it&#8217;s Maria&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I waited around and eventually Claire came home, she had indeed been to Patchings but Maria and John have swanned off to London!!! Without even telling me (never mind inviting me)!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Matters were not improved when we received a phone call (a rather drunken one I would say) going on about how lovely the hotel is, how great the cocktails were, the fantastic (and expensive) meal in the restaurant (something about a River Cottage chef). Then there was the photo emailed to us showing the lovely flowers and complimentary cake for their anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image257\" alt=\"London at the Intercontinental for their 30th Wedding anniversary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/london-anniversay-07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I could just about understand they might want to spend their birthdays and anniversary (30th!!!!) off on their own, but then I found Claire and Robert were also going down to London for high tea at the Dorchester on Monday, together with Maureen and Rob (John&#8217;s parents). It seems I was the only one left out!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve put my foot down and insisted I go too, after all I am a member of the family. Claire muttered something about the car only being a 2 seater and the Dorchester having a dress code. Cheek! As if I wasn&#8217;t smart enough for anywhere.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think you can trust people and then you find that they have sneaked off without you!! I had a bit of a lie in this morning and got up to find the house empty. I assumed they had all gone off to Patchings, a little surprising since I know it&#8217;s Maria&#8217;s birthday. I waited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}