{"id":180,"date":"2005-12-30T12:39:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2005\/12\/30\/familiar_places\/"},"modified":"2005-12-30T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:39:30","slug":"familiar_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Ed: I have decided to date the posting of the next few entries as the<br \/>\ndate they were posted, but indicate at the top of each entry the date they<br \/>\nwere written. This is because chriscurnow.com has been down for a few days<br \/>\nand I haven&#8217;t been able to post. My idea is that this will make it easier<br \/>\nto see which entries are new. ]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Written: Monday 26th December<\/h2>\n<p>Walking into the house was a warming feeling. Yes, that&#8217;s right our bedroom<br \/>\nis the second door on the left. Down a bit further straight ahead is the bathroom.<br \/>\nAh, I remember the lino on the floor and the late 60s shower recess. Back<br \/>\nout and to the right is the kitchen with the pantry forming the corridor.\n<\/p>\n<p>The back of the pantry and the<br \/>\npart of the kitchen facing the main living area is lined in yellowing pine.<br \/>\nIf I owned this place I would do something about that. In fact, I would do<br \/>\nsomething about almost everything. It&#8217;s clean and comfortable, but everything<br \/>\nis just that little bit less than what you want. Except the fridge which was<br \/>\nnew last time we were here. Check the cupboard and yes they have a serviceable<br \/>\ntoaster. Last time we ended up buying a toaster because the one that was here<br \/>\nwas so old we felt it was dangerous. But for our holiday it&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>Back to our bedroom and the small<br \/>\ndesk I write from is still here. Ah the bed. It is only a double. But as I<br \/>\nremember it was comfortable enough. Oh yes the full length bedroom window<br \/>\nlooks out onto the house next door which looks close enough to touch. Just<br \/>\nanother feature of the house that takes that 10% off. It&#8217;s OK. There are no<br \/>\nwindows on that side of the next door house, but it just cramps you more than<br \/>\nyou would like.<\/p>\n<p>The main living area is much<br \/>\nthe same. The chairs are the same. They could be better but they are OK. Oh<br \/>\nI remember the TV. I&#8217;m remembering how we connect the video and watch DVDs<br \/>\nthrough the computer. Ah, there&#8217;s a ceiling fan now and one thing we really<br \/>\nlike about this house \u2206 an air-conditioner. <\/p>\n<p>Well, after a long, hard year,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re finally here. We unpacked the car, had a cup of tea and mince tarts<br \/>\nand settled in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ed: I have decided to date the posting of the next few entries as the date they were posted, but indicate at the top of each entry the date they were written. This is because chriscurnow.com has been down for a few days and I haven&#8217;t been able to post. My idea is that this [&hellip;]<\/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-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}