{"id":5905,"date":"2011-02-24T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2016-05-15T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T15:35:59","slug":"thursday-24th-february-2011-happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 24th February 2011 – Happy Birthday to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although you wouldn’t think so. I’ve had one of those days.<\/p>\n

Despite my marathon drive in the blizzard yesterday evening, I didn’t have much time to lie about and recover. There was work to do.
\nFirst thing was to go shopping (as if we haven’t done enough) Brico and IKEA at Zaventem were the destinations today and it’s another occasion where we saw the marvellous Belgium customer service in operation.<\/p>\n

And on the way back, I fell into a police barrage and ended up being fined \u20ac50 for not wearing a seat belt. The policemen wished me a happy birthday but I could ell have done without all of that.<\/p>\n

We came home to find that the expensive halogen oven hob that I liked so very much has ceased to function, which is a disaster. Luckily, Terry is here and he can give it his full attention.<\/p>\n

But at least there is home-made ginger cake for my birthday. Liz defied Global Warming by lighting all the candles and when I tried to blow them out I was driven back by the heat.<\/p>\n

I’m glad that today is now over anyway – it’s not been my best day today has it?<\/p>\n

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Although you wouldn’t think so. I’ve had one of those days. Despite my marathon drive in the blizzard yesterday evening, I didn’t have much time to lie about and recover. There was work to do. First thing was to go shopping (as if we haven’t done enough) Brico and IKEA at Zaventem were the destinations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,6777,3,4507,787,2370,330,2518,3050],"tags":[1673,6775,199,2560,5430,6851,5599,261,6850,5703,6852,6849],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-brico","category-brussels","category-eric-hall-2","category-expo","category-ikea-brussels","category-liz_terry-messenger","category-police-check","category-zaventam","tag-belgium-2","tag-brico","tag-brussels-2","tag-eric-hall","tag-expo","tag-hob-stops-working","tag-ikea","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-no-seat-belt","tag-police-check","tag-vegan-ginger-cake","tag-zaventem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}