{"id":33577,"date":"2017-01-23T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=33577"},"modified":"2017-01-23T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:49:09","slug":"a-promise-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-promise-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"A Promise Kept"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was minus one when I woke up. BRR. The house here is surprisingly well insulated and I don’t have to heat at night at all (and by that, I mean I’m sleeping in short and a tee-shirt!). So when I wake up to the room being chilly, I know the temps really dropped overnight.<\/p>\n

It was super foggy when I drew the curtains in the sitting room:<\/p>\n

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I had a manageable workload today and had sort of thought to go into the village for coffee, but let me remind you that it was cold<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But the day warmed up a bit and by 3:30 or so I was getting antsy. I reminded myself that I had promised to ignore the weather and just get out while I was in England. So I bundled up and headed out into a slight drizzle.<\/p>\n

I like how colourful this street is, a rare treat.<\/p>\n

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This bumper sticker made me laugh.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t too stylish, but I was comfortable.<\/p>\n

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I took a different route that took me on the other side of the old bridge. I can’t believe how old it really is!<\/p>\n

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Near the supermarket, I passed a store with interesting jewellery made of old coins. It was heartwarming to see supporters of Standing Rock out here!<\/p>\n

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I thought coffee was going to be challenging, but one of the bags of the store brand dark roast had a leak and I could smell it. OMG. It was so wonderful! I then spent quite some time selecting three beers (1.5L) for \u00a35 and something to add to my leftover pasta for dinner (hint: the Brits know how to do sausage).<\/p>\n

I was amused that the temperature was almost balmy when I got out of the store! And I thought temps changed quickly in Canada.<\/p>\n

The walk home was slow as my knee has really been bothering me for a few days. That’s the only thing I don’t like here, the very long steep climb home and the stairs I have to go down<\/em> at the end, on top of the surfaces being so slick. But I love walking in the village as it is so pretty and quaint. I’m starting to know my way around despite the haphazard layout. Today, I noticed a Middle Eastern grocery store (!!!!!), so I am going to check it out when it is open to see if I can get some hummus ingredients as what I’ve gotten from Tesco hasn’t been great. Get this, the owner of the house has the exact same food processor I have back home! It’d be nice to put it to use. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So that was all the excitement from my little corner of England. Riveting stuff, I know, but, hey, I’m getting used to crossing the street her and looking the\u00a0correct way first so that’s something newsworthy! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was minus one when I woke up. BRR. The house here is surprisingly well insulated and I don’t have to heat at night at all (and by that, I mean I’m sleeping in short and a tee-shirt!). So when I wake up to the room being chilly, I know the temps really dropped overnight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637,636,1609,3,56],"tags":[796],"class_list":["post-33577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-europe","category-hebden-bridge","category-travel","category-uk","tag-city-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33586,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33577\/revisions\/33586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}