{"id":341,"date":"2020-04-03T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=341"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:03:29","slug":"3rd-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/04\/3rd-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0Relieved to have made it through another week<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fDc7EepfzoY\">Something inside so strong<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gilmoreroberts\">Gilmore and Roberts live online concert<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After getting an early night last night, I then woke early &#8211; first at 5am, then again at 6:30 when I got up. However I feel better today so maybe it did me some good to get to bed earlier, even though I didn&#8217;t actually get more sleep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its felt like a busy week work-wise &#8211; lots of calls to get through, lots of work to do, and I&#8217;ve still failed to do some long overdue business admin &#8211; I must try to get that done over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original plan was that we&#8217;d be with my Mum in a lovely holiday cottage in Wales this evening, with a weeks holiday with E and family stretching before us. Sadly, of course, we are at home instead. So we celebrated by having a lovely fish pie (cooked by D) and then sticky toffee pudding (shop bought I&#8217;m afraid) &amp; custard (which I made &#8230; from Bird&#8217;s Custard Powder of course!) &#8211; which was sweet, sickly and delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After tea we had another treat &#8211; an online gig by my favourite folk duo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilmoreroberts.co.uk\">Gilmore and Roberts<\/a>. I was meant to be seeing them live for my birthday in a couple of weeks, but with gigs for the foreseeable future cancelled they decided to setup a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gilmoreroberts\">Patreon page<\/a> and committed to doing an online gig once they had 50 patreons &#8211; which they managed in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was so glad we were able to support them, and then enjoy a great hour or so of entertainment this evening. Also really appreciating have a projector, big screen and decent sound system at home &#8211; it made it feel like they were in our living room. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ostephens72\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Owen Stephens<\/a> (@ostephens72) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2020-04-03T19:46:38+00:00\">Apr 3, 2020 at 12:46pm PDT<\/time><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ve promised the kids we&#8217;ll try to make a wildlife pond out of an old baby bath (which I&#8217;m hoping is still in the loft, otherwise that project is going to hit the buffers pretty quickly), and I need to try to finish my hedge taming in the garden. I&#8217;ve also got to record my part for a &#8220;virtual choir&#8221; we are doing, and hoping to get some band practice in with the kids, and finally wishing my youngest nephew happy birthday &#8211; so it should be a pretty busy day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0Relieved to have made it through another week Listening to:\u00a0Something inside so strong Watching:\u00a0Gilmore and Roberts live online concert After getting an early night last night, I then woke early &#8211; first at 5am, then again at 6:30 when I got up. 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