Apologies to all for the delay in posting – I write from my potentially gracious and elegant new living room (thanks to my spanking-new Home Hub, I could\u00a0also be writing from my bath, kitchen, bed or even staircase apparently, but as with most things have decided to walk before I run). I am currently surrounded by still-to-unpack cardboard boxes containing my scant belongings\u00a0and\u00a0shoes, the wall colour is as evil as I remember it but at last I am in and can again begin making plans for more enjoyable activities, although my diary for August is filling up fast and I will be quite worn out if the current hot weather stays with us!<\/p>\n
My trip to Edinburgh was a welcome, if very badly timed respite to the madness – I will\u00a0refrain from\u00a0discussing Tom Waits himself, as\u00a0anyone who was present at the Playhouse\u00a0will know, his performance defies review or even frankly, description. However, I can say that even twice the ticket price would have been worth every penny, and I can only hope that Mr Waits enjoyed himself enough to come back one day!<\/p>\n
In response to my latest comment – I will be introducing ‘early bird’ rates for\u00a0breakfast-time half hour meetings soon, as anything which requires me to get out of bed before the clock reaches double figures will be something of a boon – I am not by nature lazy (and probably spend more than enough time in bed as it is) but am becoming something of a night owl of late and will very much enjoy being up with the lark for a change (even if it results in my being back down again shortly afterwards). I anticipate that these will be for meetings between 8 and 10 am, and prebooked only (that is to say the day before at the latest, NOT requested half an hour in advance); as I’m sure you remember, we have done that one to death already so I will not bore everyone by repeating myself!<\/p>\n
My new wet room is functioning nicely and I look forward to sharing it with visitors old and new – those of you who remember my less-than-ideal facilities at my previous abode will, I’m sure, be pleasantly surprised! Although my central heating is not yet finished and the bedrooms do currently have a faint chill, this amounts to nothing that cannot be easily fought off with\u00a0a little physical effort and\u00a0enthusiasm, both of which are naturally welcome during any meeting, after all! As the oven remains unusable until the professional cleaner visits next Monday morning I have availed myself of many of the local takeaways and thus will soon be needing to work the results off – any potential assistants please call or email the usual address; personal trainer qualifications will not be required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apologies to all for the delay in posting – I write from my potentially gracious and elegant new living room (thanks to my spanking-new Home Hub, I could\u00a0also be writing from my bath, kitchen, bed or even staircase apparently, but as with most things have decided to walk before I run). I am currently surrounded by still-to-unpack cardboard boxes containing my scant belongings\u00a0and\u00a0shoes, the wall colour is as evil as I remember it but at last I am in and can again begin making plans for more enjoyable activities, although my diary for August is filling up fast and I will be quite worn out if the current hot weather stays with us! My trip to Edinburgh was a welcome, if very badly timed respite to the madness – I will\u00a0refrain from\u00a0discussing Tom Waits himself, as\u00a0anyone who was present at the Playhouse\u00a0will know, his performance defies review or even frankly, description. However, I can say that even twice the ticket price would have been worth every penny, and I can only hope that Mr Waits enjoyed himself enough to come back one day! In response to my latest comment – I will be introducing ‘early bird’ rates for\u00a0breakfast-time half hour meetings soon, as anything which requires me to get out of bed before the clock reaches double figures will be something of a boon – I am not by nature lazy (and probably spend more than enough time in bed as it is) but am becoming something of a night owl of late and will very much enjoy being up with the lark for a change (even if it results in my being back down again shortly afterwards). I anticipate that these will be for meetings between 8 and 10 am, and prebooked only (that is to say the day before at the latest, NOT requested half an hour in advance); as I’m sure you remember, we have done that one to death already so I will not bore everyone by repeating myself! My new wet room is functioning nicely and I look forward to sharing it with visitors old and new – those of you who remember my less-than-ideal facilities at my previous abode will, I’m sure, be pleasantly surprised! Although my central heating is not yet finished and the bedrooms do currently have a faint chill, this amounts to nothing that cannot be easily fought off with\u00a0a little physical effort and\u00a0enthusiasm, both of which are naturally welcome during any meeting, after all! As the oven remains unusable until the professional cleaner visits next Monday morning I have availed myself of many of the local takeaways and thus will soon be needing to work the results off – any potential assistants please call or email the usual address; personal trainer qualifications will not be required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}