{"id":84,"date":"2005-12-07T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/jennings-from-down-under\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:20:38","slug":"jennings-from-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/jennings-from-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennings from down under&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning still feeling awful stuffy head and all, and the lack of getting to sleep at a civilized hour hasn&#8217;t helped much either.<\/p>\n<p>Looked out the window and it&#8217;s all frosty and cold. Jordan wouldn&#8217;t get out of bed, stop jumping around or get dressed when I asked him so we were late to school, I&#8217;m sure that kid has a radar that tells him when I&#8217;m not feeling my best so the best times to play me up are!!<\/p>\n<p>Got home and turned the computer on to find a few of my friends raving about the Rufus Wainright gig at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham last night, which I really wanted to go to but couldn&#8217;t, and some of the same friends bragging about looking forward to going to see the Foo Fighters this coming week in Birmingham\/Manchester (depending on who I&#8217;m talking to) another gig that I wanted go to and can&#8217;t (see previous posts for details I&#8217;m not going there again!!)<\/p>\n<p>So a brilliant start to the day!! BUT then the postman came and instead of the usual round of Junkmail, Bills and consumer surveys, I have a letter&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in the age of modern technology with email and mobile phones it has become extremely rare to receive real post, hand written on real paper! But I did and it&#8217;s from my uncle in New Zealand..I got very exicted. he has yet again extended the offer for me to go over and stay with him and his family ( I have an aunt and 3 cousins over there that I have never met) and was telling me how his eldest as joined the army! It brightened up a very miserable morning so heres to hoping things can only get better from here!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning still feeling awful stuffy head and all, and the lack of getting to sleep at a civilized hour hasn&#8217;t helped much either. Looked out the window and it&#8217;s all frosty and cold. Jordan wouldn&#8217;t get out of bed, stop jumping around or get dressed when I asked him so we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/jennings-from-down-under\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jennings from down under&#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-84","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-1m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":207,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/the-best-school-trip-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":84,"position":0},"title":"The best school trip EVER&#8230;","date":"April 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last September the blonde kid started his new school and shortly afterwards his new teacher Mr Tennant fell ill, after weeks without a teacher they finally appointed a substitute. 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