{"id":2564,"date":"2014-11-01T06:32:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2014-11-01T06:32:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T06:32:25","slug":"2564","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Degustation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, foot cramp.\u00a0 Such an effective way of waking up, I really should market it.<\/p>\n<p>Just checked my last post, October 10th, crikey, we have been busy celebrating Mr Holmes&#8217;s significant birthday.\u00a0 As you might expect, there was a food theme here.\u00a0 We met John and Yvonne in Berwick, at <a title=\"Foxtons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxtonswinebar.com\/menu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foxton<\/a>&#8216;s, and had lunch with Rosemary, Sarah, Michaela, Daniel and Alan at a new-to-me <a title=\"Beijing Banquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beijingbanquet.com\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese buffet in Edinburgh<\/a>, which to their eternal credit had loads of fresh fruit and vegetables on the menu. \u00a0 \u00a0 So, it was off to the Weeg\u00a0 last weekend, with Rosemary and our chums the Burgesses.\u00a0 We stayed in the very new Premier Inn at the SECC, and had great river views, I will frankly be gutted if I stay there again and get one of the car park.\u00a0 We ate at the <a title=\"Ubiquitous Chip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubiquitouschip.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chip<\/a>, and had a most enjoyable meal.\u00a0 The staff were very gracious around the fact that a six seater cab ordered two hours in advance failed to turn up, making us 15 minutes late, (yes you, Glasgow Taxis) and that I forgot to tell them that one of our party was 12 years old.\u00a0 Some establishments can be pretty sniffy about that but a children&#8217;s menu was swiftly proffered, from which Chloe calmly chose the most grown up option of mussels.\u00a0\u00a0 Next day in appalling weather we strolled all of 400 yards to the Glasgow Science Centre which kept us all royally amused until we had to go our separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>A selection of pictures below &#8211; we were so busy talking in Berwick that I forgot to take any shots.\u00a0 I did put some of these on FB already.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2565\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2565\" alt=\"Bell's Bridge, Armadillo and Hydro\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250061-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell&#8217;s Bridge, Armadillo and Hydro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2566\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2566\" alt=\"Armadillo\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250062-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armadillo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2567\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2567\" alt=\"Room vista\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250065-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Room vista<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2568\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2568\" alt=\"At the Chip\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA250078-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Chip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2569\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA260091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2569\" alt=\"Sunday weather\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA260091-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunday weather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2570\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA260094.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2570\" alt=\"Reflections\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA260094-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2571\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA260099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2571\" alt=\"Me at Science Centre\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PA260099-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at Science Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2572\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pauls-50th-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2572\" alt=\"After Chinese lunch\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pauls-50th-001-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Chinese lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And lastly just to see if you read this far, one of me with the band and Peaches from last Friday, thank you to every one who came along to Dalgety Parish Church where we were allowed to play on a real stage, and the lovely ladies served us big pots of tea and slabs of cake.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2573\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_0157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2573\" alt=\"Bill, Ian, me &amp; the bear - A8M 24 10 14\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_0157-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill, Ian, me &amp; the bear &#8211; A8M 24 10 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, foot cramp.\u00a0 Such an effective way of waking up, I really should market it. Just checked my last post, October 10th, crikey, we have been busy celebrating Mr Holmes&#8217;s significant birthday.\u00a0 As you might expect, there was a food theme here.\u00a0 We met John and Yvonne in Berwick, at Foxton&#8216;s, and had lunch with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,11,30,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-8-mince","category-family","category-food","category-friends","category-kirsty","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}