{"id":3915,"date":"2018-06-05T19:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2018-06-05T19:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:34:34","slug":"weekendings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"Weekendings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A busy and fruitful weekend: Saturday lunch in Cafe Portrait, where we narrowly missed Ali and Les.\u00a0 Then we strolled along the main streets before heading up to the museum on Chambers Street to view Tim Peake’s landing craft.\u00a0\u00a0 Hied off to our caf\u00e9 du jour, the Angus Fling, where Paul was able to stave off his hunger with a venison burger, whilst I had a more sedate,\u00a0 and rather good, scone.\u00a0 Tripped back down the road to Coda Music, where there was a new CD being launched, by Aidan O’Rourke, of LAU fame.\u00a0 We enjoyed a short concert, with James Robertson reading his stories and\u00a0 Kit Downes on the harmonium, plus Aidan on fiddle.\u00a0 They were all kind enough to sign my CD.<\/p>\n

Sunday began with a swim, and a serendipitous trip to Loch Ore meadows, where the cafe was open ridiculously early for a marathon bicycle race. allowing us to sneak a cup of tea and a scrambled egg roll.\u00a0 A walk round the loch itself was followed by a sail on two fun boats.\u00a0 “Fun” was maybe not quite the order of the day since there was no wind to propel these sail boats, but we had a good time and the staff at the park could not have been kinder, or more helpful.<\/p>\n

We had to wear wetsuits.\u00a0 No pictures exist of either of us in that garb.\u00a0 Nor will they.<\/p>\n

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Tim Peake: Soyuz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paul with Soyuz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Swans on Loch Ore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Calm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Last of the bluebells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heron at Loch Ore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pinkfoot Geese at Loch Ore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A busy and fruitful weekend: Saturday lunch in Cafe Portrait, where we narrowly missed Ali and Les.\u00a0 Then we strolled along the main streets before heading up to the museum on Chambers Street to view Tim Peake’s landing craft.\u00a0\u00a0 Hied off to our caf\u00e9 du jour, the Angus Fling, where Paul was able to stave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,29,11,13,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-birds-wildlife","category-family","category-food","category-kirsty","category-scones","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}