{"id":15489,"date":"2020-04-29T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T09:28:26","slug":"april-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=15489","title":{"rendered":"April Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=15490\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aprilshowerIMG_20200429.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aprilshowerIMG_20200429\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aprilshowerIMG_20200429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aprilshowerIMG_20200429-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aprilshowerIMG_20200429-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAt last a rainy day, and a faint pastel rainbow. So April is no longer our driest month ever, prevously tied with April 2015, but it is our sunniest April ever (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2020\/may\/04\/uk-meteorologists-confirm-april-as-sunniest-on-record\">not just us either<\/a>), beating April 2015. Digging for victory week 5: carrots, onions and radishes all growing, beans and courgettes ready to plant out. Neighbours say 2 foxes and 4 hedgehogs spend nights in our gardens. Hope they eat snails.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>Absolution Gap<\/em> by Alastair Reynolds.<br \/>\n[update] Next day: another April shower and a more impressive rainbow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=15500\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rainbowIMG_20200430.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rainbowIMG_20200430\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rainbowIMG_20200430.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rainbowIMG_20200430-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rainbowIMG_20200430-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last a rainy day, and a faint pastel rainbow. So April is no longer our driest month ever, prevously tied with April 2015, but it is our sunniest April ever (not just us either), beating April 2015. Digging for victory week 5: carrots, onions and radishes all growing, beans and courgettes ready to plant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=15489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;April Shower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[19,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15515,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions\/15515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}