{"id":39,"date":"2003-08-31T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2003-09-01T04:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=39"},"modified":"2003-08-31T21:43:02","modified_gmt":"2003-09-01T04:43:02","slug":"weekend-in-eckington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2003\/08\/weekend-in-eckington\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend in Eckington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from a lovely weekend with Alan and Anna in Eckington (Worcestershire). Not a particularly busy time, more relaxing. We saw part of the local &#8216;raft&#8217; race on the river Avon, and went to the &#8216;Hog Roast&#8217; in the evening (although all the Hog had gone).<\/p>\n<p>Today we went for a walk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/scripts\/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&#038;PropertyId=340\">Croome Park<\/a> &#8211; a National Trust property (well &#8211; just the grounds actually, the house is now luxury appartments). The gardens were apparently Capability Brown&#8217;s first commision when he went &#8216;freelance&#8217;, and the NT is now restoring them to his original design. Unfortunately they were dredging the lake, which meant we didn&#8217;t see it at it&#8217;s best, but it will be really interesting to go back at some point and see how it&#8217;s developed.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been looking at more properties online this evening, and seen a couple of larger properties outside our &#8216;maximum&#8217; distance &#8211; shows how you get more for your money outside Twickenham. We might take a stroll down to one near St Margarets to see how long it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from a lovely weekend with Alan and Anna in Eckington (Worcestershire). Not a particularly busy time, more relaxing. We saw part of the local &#8216;raft&#8217; race on the river Avon, and went to the &#8216;Hog Roast&#8217; in the evening (although all the Hog had gone). Today we went for a walk at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}