{"id":22526,"date":"2026-06-27T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22526"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:11:12","slug":"silver-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22526","title":{"rendered":"Silver Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22527\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/silverIMGP0008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/silverIMGP0008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/silverIMGP0008-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>It has been 25 years since we tied the knot at Lusaka Civic Centre so we celebrated with a lunch of baked potatoes, cold meats and salad with the family, who brought wonderful presents and an unexpected bottle of champagne. We had cherry cake on galaxy-themed paper plates for afters and scored a disappointing 9 on the GSQ. Must try harder.<br \/>\nWhen darkness fell, the first noctilucent clouds of the year filled the sky; a special gift for us on our special day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22533\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/noctIMG_20260627_233058-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/noctIMG_20260627_233058-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/noctIMG_20260627_233058-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2 is rereading <em>Bad Actors<\/em> by Mick Herron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 25 years since we tied the knot at Lusaka Civic Centre so we celebrated with a lunch of baked potatoes, cold meats and salad with the family, who brought wonderful presents and an unexpected bottle of champagne. We had cherry cake on galaxy-themed paper plates for afters and scored a disappointing 9 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22526\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silver Surfers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,16,13],"tags":[20,22,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526"}],"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=22526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22534,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526\/revisions\/22534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}