{"id":712,"date":"2010-04-05T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=712"},"modified":"2010-04-05T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T09:55:37","slug":"a-fair-a-pool-and-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"A fair, a pool and a train"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weekends ago we had a night out of London.\u00a0 Once again we went and stayed with Liz and Dave.\u00a0 And every time we do they always take us to something that is happening in the local towns\/villages.\u00a0 Last time it was a raft race and this time it was a good ole fair in Stamford. The fair had been set up all over the town, basically wherever they could find space (not like I remember from when I was a kid and they are set up on a local field or something similar).\u00a0 So the town was taken over by a number or rides, candy floss sellers, and game stalls.<\/p>\n

Its been a while since I have been on a ride, but Liz managed to convince me to get on ‘the frog’.\u00a0 And once on I was thinking “what have I done?!” and “is there no way to get off now until the ride is finished?!”\u00a0 But once I had been round a couple of times and was used to what was happening I managed to relax and remove the startled look from my face. And for the bargain price of \u00a33 it was eventually quite enjoyable!<\/p>\n

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The afternoon saw us play many a game of pool at one of the local pubs.\u00a0 I do love the quaint English country pubs. You just can’t beat them!\u00a0 Then the evening had us at their local town hall for an Irish night.\u00a0 A meal, some drinks and a raffle – of which we managed to win a prize.\u00a0 A quiet night but something different for us which is always really nice.<\/p>\n

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Then on Sunday we visited another couple of relatively local spots. The first was a grand collection of hills and holes<\/a> from an old quarry. Really nice to wander around, even if the flowers weren’t quite out yet. The second was the Nene Valley Railway<\/a>.\u00a0 It has steam trains which you can go on or even learn to drive (we didn’t do either – yet. We may yet be back…)\u00a0 We just spent the time wandering around the old trains and then looking at a lot of 3 wheeled cars (like the one Mr Bean had) in the car park.\u00a0 All in all another nice weekend out of London.<\/p>\n

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A couple of weekends ago we had a night out of London.\u00a0 Once again we went and stayed with Liz and Dave.\u00a0 And every time we do they always take us to something that is happening in the local towns\/villages.\u00a0 Last time it was a raft race and this time it was a good ole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}