{"id":11658,"date":"2023-03-29T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:20:20","slug":"dinner-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11658","title":{"rendered":"Dinner for One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Val got a phone call early this morning to tell her that the family she\u2019s been teaching wouldn\u2019t be skiing today. To be honest I don\u2019t blame them &#8211; it\u2019s very windy and wet. So Val finished her jigsaw instead. Here it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"893\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-1024x893.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-1024x893.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-300x261.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-768x669.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-1536x1339.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-2048x1785.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC2DB7D9-DE60-4005-A627-82F1592C7F3C-344x300.jpeg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The picture is a scene from the 1962 recording of &#8216;Dinner for One&#8217;, a sketch featuring British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden. Although largely unknown in Britain, it is hugely popular in German-speaking Europe, as well as the Scandinavian countries. If you have fifteen minutes to spare, you can watch it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/LygFH2D1WHc\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We met Ali and Emily for lunch, and tonight it&#8217;ll be an early dinner at the Caprice, followed by Steve and Colin playing at the Alpine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val got a phone call early this morning to tell her that the family she\u2019s been teaching wouldn\u2019t be skiing today. To be honest I don\u2019t blame them &#8211; it\u2019s very windy and wet. So Val finished her jigsaw instead. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}