{"id":164,"date":"2007-06-26T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/bye-bye-lemon-meringue-pie\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:16:10","slug":"bye-bye-lemon-meringue-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/bye-bye-lemon-meringue-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Lemon Meringue Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just sat here and devoured a third of a Lemon Meringue Pie, which I have to admit was equally as good as Sara Lee&#8217;s Chocolate fudge cake, but nowhere close to Krispy Kreme and their perfect doughnuts. I am now feeling quite sickly and rather sleepy.<\/p>\n<p>The rain has given us a short respite today and the &#8220;pond&#8221; that appeared  in my back garden has now subsided, well at least until tomorrow, When, the metcheck website has reliably informed me, its going to start hooning it down around dinner time and not stop for the rest of the day!! Joy of joys, At least it&#8217;s given the kids a chance to get outside to play for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I use the term play loosely as at one point it sounded like war had broken out in the street and I was about to sound all alarms until I realised it was just the the blonde kid and Craig arguing over &#8220;she&#8217;s not my girlfriend&#8221;&#8230; AND talking of &#8220;She&#8217;s not my girlfriend&#8221; it seems I may have to rename her to&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She IS my girlfriend&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The blonde kid has admitted, to me at least, that Shannon is indeed his girlfriend because &#8220;she told him she was!&#8221;. And he very solemnly announced to her when she last came around  to play and I interrupted them that &#8220;It&#8217;s O.K, Mom knows about us!&#8221; At which point she pulled her best I&#8217;m going to pretend I don&#8217;t know what your talking about embarrassed face and blushed from the tips of her very cute little ears right down to I&#8217;m sure if I could have seen them the soles of her feet.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh the complexities of seven year olds relationships!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just sat here and devoured a third of a Lemon Meringue Pie, which I have to admit was equally as good as Sara Lee&#8217;s Chocolate fudge cake, but nowhere close to Krispy Kreme and their perfect doughnuts. I am now feeling quite sickly and rather sleepy. The rain has given us a short respite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/bye-bye-lemon-meringue-pie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bye Bye Lemon Meringue Pie<\/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-164","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-2E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1571,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/salted-lemon-asparagus\/","url_meta":{"origin":164,"position":0},"title":"Salted Lemon Asparagus","date":"March 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"So after a mammoth cooking session Sunday all that was left this week was to eat it! 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