{"id":158,"date":"2006-07-03T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2006-07-03T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T19:54:29","slug":"a-week-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/a-week-in-england","title":{"rendered":"A week in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-content\/p6270020smaller.jpg' alt='Our rented Mercedes' title=\"Our rented Mercedes\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\"\/>We&#8217;ve just returned from a week in England. The seats in the rental car we picked up at the airport weren&#8217;t adjustable enough to support Mary&#8217;s back properly, and there were no other cars of the same category available, so we had to upgrade. I gulped when I heard that the only upgrade available was a Mercedes, but when I heard that it only cost an extra \u00a38 per day, there was no question&#8230; I have now joined the ranks of the Mercedes drivers (and yes, the road does belong to me \ud83d\ude09 ).<br \/>\nWe spent the first few days at Helen and Heinrich&#8217;s place near Canterbury, preparing for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirche-im-aufbruch.de\/index.php?id=71\">camp<\/a> we&#8217;re teaching at later in the summer. Due to minor misunderstandings, our visit turned out to be a surprise&nbsp;&ndash; they were expecting a visit, but didn&#8217;t know when! We had a good time talking, and managed to get the main points of our seminar nailed down.<br \/>\nFrom there, we headed across the country to Hereford, to visit my parents. We saw Dad for an evening before he left for the USA, and stayed at my Mum&#8217;s place, which was rapidly emptying as she was selling furniture before her imminent move.<br clear=\"right\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/beekars\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/beekars\/p1020670_001.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Family gathering\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\"\/><\/a>On Saturday, while heading back East for our flight on Sunday, we dropped in to visit my aunts and uncle, who we hadn&#8217;t seen in several years. We had a great time catching up, and have resolved to visit more often! (Tony, we believe you&#8217;re not a football lout, honest&#8230;)<br clear=\"left\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just returned from a week in England. The seats in the rental car we picked up at the airport weren&#8217;t adjustable enough to support Mary&#8217;s back properly, and there were no other cars of the same category available, so we had to upgrade. I gulped when I heard that the only upgrade available was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/a-week-in-england\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A week in England&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}