{"id":2613,"date":"2014-11-30T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2014-11-30T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T09:12:46","slug":"nones-et-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Nones et duo*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about through November, always a funny old month, what with the natural world shutting down and the peer pressure via the media to bankrupt your self in the name of love.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been out with the Mincers a fair bit, and down to Berwick, and to Stirling, and at work, and there seems to be a hold in place on my brain because I cannot remember what else I have been up to.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe that&#8217;s it.\u00a0 So, some shots below, a distinct underwater feel to the Kingdom centre car park in Glenrothes, some of my Mincer chums and a spooky sunset.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2614\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141115_145927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2614\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141115_145927-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Glenrothes car park\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glenrothes car park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2615\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141115_190341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2615\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141115_190341-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ian tuning up\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian tuning up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2616\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141115_190404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2616\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141115_190404-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alex setting up\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex setting up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2617\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141129_151541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2617\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141129_151541-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset in Berwick\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset in Berwick<\/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>We had a very pleasant lunch in the <a title=\"Maltings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maltingsberwick.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maltings Art<\/a> centre yesterday in Berwick, lots of fish dishes.<\/p>\n<p>*November, you will be aware, was originally the ninth month, hence the name, as the Romans pretty quickly ran out of deities (and I am typing myself into a hole here because I cannot recall after whom February is named)\u00a0 and had to resort to plain old numbers.\u00a0\u00a0 Then they changed it all and added two months but kept the names,\u00a0 and as per the note below, started counting backwards.\u00a0 Is it any wonder their empire crumbled?<\/p>\n<p>Note from Wiki<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Nonae<\/i>, Nones\u2014thought to have originally been the day of the <a title=\"Lunar phase\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_phase\">half moon<\/a>. The Nones was eight days before the Ides, and fell on the fifth or seventh day of the month, depending on the position of the Ides. (<i>Nones<\/i> implies ninth from the Latin <i>novem<\/i>, because, counting Ides as first, one day before is the second, and eight days before is the ninth).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about through November, always a funny old month, what with the natural world shutting down and the peer pressure via the media to bankrupt your self in the name of love. We&#8217;ve been out with the Mincers a fair bit, and down to Berwick, and to Stirling, and at work, and there seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-8-mince","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}