{"id":22633,"date":"2026-08-09T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22633"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:50:46","slug":"dinner-with-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22633","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22634\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dinnerPXL_20260809_17010749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dinnerPXL_20260809_17010749.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dinnerPXL_20260809_17010749-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Our family meal today was at Gez and Dave&#8217;s house and featured cod loins wrapped in parma ham with green beans and potato gratin with sausage rolls for the fish refusers. Present at the gathering were Dave with a broken foot in a velcro boot, Bob and Lena all the way from Sweden and Ivy visiting Faye.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22635\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cakeIMG_20260809_123223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cakeIMG_20260809_123223.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cakeIMG_20260809_123223-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cakeIMG_20260809_123223-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/>A2 contributed a Dubai-style chocolate, pistachio and shredded wheat cheesecake but unfortunately dropped it and had to scrape it back together and apply another layer so it did not look as good as the before photo here but it tasted pretty acceptable. And we scored an astonishing 14 on the GSQ, bringing us back above 10 at long last.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Killer&#8217;s Mark<\/em> by MW Craven. A2 is reading <em>Pinball 1973<\/em>* by Haruki Murakami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family meal today was at Gez and Dave&#8217;s house and featured cod loins wrapped in parma ham with green beans and potato gratin with sausage rolls for the fish refusers. Present at the gathering were Dave with a broken foot in a velcro boot, Bob and Lena all the way from Sweden and Ivy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dinner with the Family&#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":[16],"tags":[19,20,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633"}],"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=22633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22636,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions\/22636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}