{"id":1158,"date":"2013-05-28T22:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2013-05-30T23:25:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T22:25:23","slug":"cunning-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/cunning-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"All we need is a cunning plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4578785\/?claim=kng4b67s3bn\">Follow my blog with Bloglovin<\/a><br \/>\nThis winter I have been feeling dissatisfied with life. I couldn\u2019t put my finger on exactly why but it had something to do with feeling the dullness of all work and no play. Working full time as I do weekends are precious but the pressure to squeeze some &#8220;me time&#8221; out of the weekend has caused me to be fraught with competing pressures of laundry and shopping, cleaning and visiting family and friends; all winter I have been dashing about filling every weekend with \u201cthings that must be done\u201d rather than doing what I wanted to do, even quilting had become a \u201cmust do\u201d, working to an exhibition deadline.<br \/>\nSo last weekend as Sunday evening darkened and I was driving home from another journey made for someone else\u2019s benefit, I determined that I needed to develop a cunning plan which would allow me time to do something I had been yearning to do; walk in a wood carpeted with native Bluebells (Hyacinthoides nonscripta) while they are still flowering, admittedly rather late this year. As I have been driving about for work I have passed many a little glade by the roadside and seen a blue mist above the undergrowth and caught a faint whiff of that wonderful scent, which indicated Bluebells were flowering there; I wanted to stand ankle deep in bluebells in a sun dappled wood. Saturday is usually my shopping day, but not this weekend, the forecast indicated that the sun would shine on Saturday and I planned to be in a Bluebell wood.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1159\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4323.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1159\" alt=\"Bluebells under a beech tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4323.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4323.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4323-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebells under a beech tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to stand ankle deep in bluebells in a sun dappled wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[328,331,329,330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}