{"id":2317,"date":"2010-12-21T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:49:50","slug":"xmas-time-count-down-to-the-big-day-no-shopping-just-partying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/12\/xmas-time-count-down-to-the-big-day-no-shopping-just-partying\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas time\u2026count down to the big day, no shopping just partying!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2319\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2319\" title=\"images-1\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club Sandwich!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The plan last minute Christmas shopping. Meeting pal for a quick coffee- the last time I met him for a coffee we went out for 8 hours and he got concussion. So steeling myself to display self-control.<\/p>\n<p>This time\u2026..coffee only at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigoyardedinburgh.co.uk\">Indigo Yard<\/a> ordered crumpets and butter. Home made crumpets looked promising but sadly were cold. Coffee great though and nice atmos with lovely attentive and smiley staff so waited til the last second to leave. Him to the dentist and me\u2026off to meet my niece for lunch. Well I have buried my bah humbug til January and am just going for it. Off \u00a0we went as close as possible to her place of work \u2013 The George Hotel <a href=\"\/\/http:\/\/www.tempus-edinburgh.co.uk\/food\">Tempus bar<\/a>. We sat down and had a glass of festive Prosecco and ordered a club sandwich for me and eggs benedict for her.<br \/>\nDid you ever see the beginning of The Flintstones when Fred orders\u00a0 dino ribs from the drive through and this vast rib arrives and capsizes the car. Well that was about the size of my club sandwich.! Woah! Chicken, mayo, bacon, tomato, lettuce, great oval hunks of bread \u2013 3 slices and try as I might \u2013and I did I had to leave some. Breaks my Aberdonain heart that but what a find.\u00a0 My new food pash.<\/p>\n<p>The eggs benedict were lush too at \u00a37.50\u00a0 and the sandiwch at \u00a38.95 bloomin\u2019 good value.<\/p>\n<p>So there we sat Xmassy and smiling full of food and good cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Put an end to the shopping of course\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Hey ho who cares<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Spirit is alive and well\u2026back to town tomomrrow really must get the shopping started\u2026..22<sup>nd<\/sup> and counting\u2026..gulp<\/p>\n<p>X<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan last minute Christmas shopping. Meeting pal for a quick coffee- the last time I met him for a coffee we went out for&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24,104,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}