{"id":6926,"date":"2014-09-15T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2014-09-15T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:02:08","slug":"boring-kind-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/boring-kind-of-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Boring kind of day"},"content":{"rendered":"

After missing the delivery of my new tow-bar for the Kia on Friday, I had to wait around for it to be delivered today. As it was very warm, dry and sunny, I thought I might as well make the most of the weather by doing my washing (it has to be done…) and the two loads that I put through the machine were both dry minutes after I’d hung them out. So that was good. The delivery lady eventually arrived mid-afternoon as she’d promised on Friday and said that she’d found my address easily after I’d given her directions. She then zoomed off again in her little van after we’d yanked my parcel, which was very heavy, off it and I’d signed her delivery docket. Here’s what I found when I unpacked it – the box was mostly full of plastic ‘filler’, which I removed before taking them.<\/p>\n

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So now I’m ready to go ahead and fit it. I’m not looking forward to it very much, for three reasons. Firstly, there are no ‘written’ fitting instructions – all you get are a few sheets of pictures and diagrams and I think that it’s going to be a bit challenging as a result. Secondly, I ordered a tow-bar that will take a good size caravan and not just my tiddly little trailer, so it’s ruddy heavy. And thirdly, it was this time of year when I fitted the tow-bar on the Astra and after rolling around on the ground doing it, I got covered in bites from the horrible little mites that are called ‘Ao\u00fbtats<\/a>‘ in this part of the world. They are so called because they are particularly prevalent during the month of August (Ao\u00fbt) and people who walk their dogs in the grass or walk around in flip-flops are particularly susceptible to them. I’ve got bites from them already just from working outside in my flip-flops on my new wood store, so I’m not looking forward at all to getting ‘down and dirty’ on my back on the ground again, which will bring me in even closer proximity to the little blighters. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say, so I’ll have to find something to lay on the ground for me to roll around on. But in any case, I don’t have a choice \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After missing the delivery of my new tow-bar for the Kia on Friday, I had to wait around for it to be delivered today. As it was very warm, dry and sunny, I thought I might as well make the most of the weather by doing my washing (it has to be done…) and the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}