{"id":439,"date":"2012-11-05T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2013-03-26T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:57:10","slug":"fine-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/fine-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A fine day at last"},"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 sunny day to round off my rainy hiatus between jobs, so we took the opportunity afforded by my little convertible <strong> not<\/strong> being mothballed for the winter quite yet and went out in it with the top down (and plenty of warm layers on) I&#8217;ve known it to be warm and balmy into November but this November isn&#8217;t one of those, in fact there&#8217;s snow on the Lakeland hills already.<figure id=\"attachment_440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3623.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3623-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Arnside, and the Lakeland fells\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3623-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3623-1024x592.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brrrr, snow already<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>We drove to Silverdale and then on to Arnside where we stopped to buy a picnic in a local bakery, the plan was to drive up to Sandside and stop by the roadside with a view of the Kent Estuary, and the snowy fells beyond to eat our picnic, but it was not to be, before we got there we met with a couple of women standing in the road flagging down the traffic and turning us back, there had been a road accident ahead, and they were trying to keep the road clear for the ambulance. I have to admit my first thoughts were hardly charitable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-441\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_36252.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_36252-1024x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"My pride and joy, and my Dearest with pie\" width=\"700\" height=\"388\" class=\"size-large wp-image-441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_36252-1024x568.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_36252-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My pride and joy, and my Dearest with pie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> We ate our picnic in a less salubrious spot, and a very disappointing picnic it was too, maybe I should pack one myself next time.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan was to drive up to Sandside and stop by the roadside with a view of the Kent Estuary, and the snowy fells beyond to eat our picnic, but it was not to be.<\/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":[205,135,133,134,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}