{"id":1208,"date":"2017-02-04T22:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2017-02-04T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:52:42","slug":"evry-little-ting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2017\/02\/evry-little-ting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ev&#8217;ry Little Ting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1209\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1982-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The photo doesn't do it justice\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1982-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1982-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1982-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1982-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The photo doesn&#8217;t do it justice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a rollercoaster week; certainly one that&#8217;s sped by. I mean, how can today be 4th February 2017? What happened to January? And Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?<\/p>\n<p>I psyched myself up for my dentist&#8217;s visit on Wednesday morning but I needn&#8217;t have worried. I didn&#8217;t feel a thing and recovered amazingly well &#8211; no bleeding, no pain once the anaesthetic wore off, no need to take any painkillers. Magic! And I know that this speedy recovery is down to my little yellow pills. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m suffering with severe writer&#8217;s block. It&#8217;s not been helped by the fact that I&#8217;ve been given work at very short notice &#8211; not that I&#8217;m complaining, the coffers are almost bare &#8211; and then I&#8217;ve had two occasions where I laid aside a whole morning or afternoon for appointments and then had the people concerned change or cancel them &#8211; all wasted time. And I&#8217;m finding it difficult to get into the swing of writing when I&#8217;d been geared up for something else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re making excuses, Elaine!&#8221; I hear you say. Possibly. But whether it&#8217;s an excuse or not, the truth be told, I&#8217;m struggling. So, I&#8217;ve decided to put The Banjo Book Two to one side and I&#8217;ve started work on another project. It&#8217;s a new path for me as a writer. I don&#8217;t want to share too much with you at the moment in case I put the mockers on myself, but I&#8217;ll keep you posted as the project progresses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also concerned that interest in Avocado Cottage has dropped off. But I had a meeting with Mr M of Apex Realtors and we&#8217;re going to work together to rent it out while keeping it on the market. This seems like a good solution; I&#8217;ll still be able to come a few times a year and stay here but it&#8217;ll be rented the rest of the time with holiday lets (I hope!!!) and that was the original plan and then any perspective buyers will know that it&#8217;s an on-going business.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also been an emotional week for The Daughter. It&#8217;s not my news to share, so I won&#8217;t. But I&#8217;m so excited for her and thrilled and extremely proud.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1984-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful, vivid rainbow. All is well.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1984-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1984-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1984-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1984-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful, vivid rainbow. All is well.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And this morning, as I sat out on the veranda having a coffee and enjoying the cool, still morning, it suddenly started to rain. And a huge, vivid rainbow appeared. Honestly, the photos do not do it justice. And the unease vanished and I felt calm and serene and I just knew that this beautiful manifestation &#8211; a pact between my Higher Power and me &#8211; means that ev&#8217;ry little ting, gonna be alright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a rollercoaster week; certainly one that&#8217;s sped by. I mean, how can today be 4th February 2017? What happened to January? And Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday? I psyched myself up for my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2017\/02\/evry-little-ting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[723,205,58,710],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apex-realtors","tag-avocado-cottage","tag-five-islands","tag-the-banjo-book-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}