{"id":136,"date":"2006-08-21T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/and-down-came-the-rain\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:17:21","slug":"and-down-came-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/and-down-came-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"And down came the rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moblog.co.uk\/blogs\/4861\/thumbs\/moblog_735f719ed7894.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moblog.co.uk\/blogs\/4861\/thumbs\/moblog_735f719ed7894.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Saturday at V and it rained and rained and rained. AND THEN rained some more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It started as we were waiting to get in and continued throughout the day varying in its intesity but never quite stopping!<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER that didn&#8217;t stop us enjoying the day immensly!! Seeing some marvellous performances and elbowing our way through the crowds to get a better view!<\/p>\n<p>Managed to see full sets by Imogen Heap and Rufus Wainright and varying songs from other sets by other artists including Paul Weller, Faithless, The Feeling and Razorlight!! It was marvellous!!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for us but not so lucky for him, my sisters boyfried, who was there, but not with us, mananged to drink himself into a stupor and although there on a weekend pass needed collecting on the Saturday night so we managed to get a lift home when Emma came to pick him up. So no need to travel for hours on public transport in damp clothing in the rain!<\/p>\n<p>So thank you Danny for making an idiot of yourself&#8230;and 4 words&#8230;I TOLD YOU SO!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday at V and it rained and rained and rained. AND THEN rained some more&#8230; It started as we were waiting to get in and continued throughout the day varying in its intesity but never quite stopping! HOWEVER that didn&#8217;t stop us enjoying the day immensly!! Seeing some marvellous performances and elbowing our way through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/and-down-came-the-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And down came the rain&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-2c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":547,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/dudley-zoos-best-little-keeper\/","url_meta":{"origin":136,"position":0},"title":"Dudley Zoo&#8217;s Best Little Keeper.","date":"June 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"(oops this has been sitting in my drafts, I thought I'd posted it) Not Christmas gone, but the one before \"Nanny Penny\" bought TBK a voucher to become a zoo keeper for the day at Dudley Zoo. 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