{"id":4253,"date":"2021-08-09T22:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2021-08-09T22:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:30:27","slug":"old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"Old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long weekend presented the opportunity for a bit of a return to old entertainment. First of all, a 16:30 finish on a Thursday with zero commute time means with a bit of help from a taxi we made it to <strike>Summerisle<\/strike> Pelsall and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2327\">The Queens<\/a> by 5pm, to make our table booking in a surprisingly crowded <a href=\"https:\/\/moghulpalace.co.uk\/\">Mogul Palace<\/a> by 6. One excellent curry later, we&#8217;re on a bus back to civilisation, or at least Shelfield. A drink or two with family members, and back home.<\/p>\n<p>Friday saw us off to Rugeley, again using the train line we used for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3700\">Hednesford in better times<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?m=20210806\">A few nice pubs<\/a> (and one grotty one&#8230;), and a little sit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk\/content-z-tags\/elmore-park\">Elmore Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday and Sunday passed by like normal: I met a mate for beer, we drank a little too much.<\/p>\n<p>Monday saw me at the QE to have needles poked in me and mild electric shocks, carried out with the typical efficiency of that institution: an example of how the NHS can work so well. With that done (with a big thanks my chauffeur), I fitted in a very short bike ride- necessarily short, these days- and we managed to do something day-off-like, with tea at the pub, and now, it&#8217;s late on virtual Sunday, and I have to be reasonably coherent tomorrow \ud83d\ude41 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long weekend presented the opportunity for a bit of a return to old entertainment. First of all, a 16:30 finish on a Thursday with zero commute time means with a bit of help from a taxi we made it to Summerisle Pelsall and The Queens by 5pm, to make our table booking in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old and new<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}