{"id":481,"date":"2010-04-24T21:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-04-24T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T21:02:06","slug":"random-musings-on-a-lovely-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/random-musings-on-a-lovely-day","title":{"rendered":"Random musings on a lovely day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-482\" title=\"P1020467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020467.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020467-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020467-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020467-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After two weeks of non-stop work (a bit like having a real job &#8211; not sure I can cope with that!), today was a chance to relax. Blue skies (just a little haze), warmest temperatures of the year, and younger son, the only one at home at the moment, off for the day.<\/p>\n<p>But some deadlines are looming over me and I had to write entries on Portuguese wineries for Dorling Kindersley&#8217;s Opus Vino book project. I&#8217;m late, and I even had a chasing email from the managing editor, so this needs to be finished by Monday, because I&#8217;m off to the USA on Tuesday. So I spent the morning working hard, then Fiona and I headed off with RTL to the Valley Gardens in Windsor Great Park.<\/p>\n<p>We had a fabulous walk. Maybe I&#8217;m getting old and boring, but there are few pleasures to match a long walk in beautiful surroundings with good company. But everything botanical seems to be late this year, held up by the cold winter and low temperatures of spring.<\/p>\n<p>When we got back we washed RTL with a hose in the garden. She hates it, and stands there trembling pathetically. It makes us feel like bad owners, but if she doesn&#8217;t get washed, she smells really, really bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020469.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-483\" title=\"P1020469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020469.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020469.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020469-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020469-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1020469-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two weeks of non-stop work (a bit like having a real job &#8211; not sure I can cope with that!), today was a chance to relax. Blue skies (just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}