{"id":22843,"date":"2026-10-24T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22843"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:49:53","slug":"saturday-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22843","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cobblersPXL_20261024_124859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cobblersPXL_20261024_124859.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cobblersPXL_20261024_124859-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Happy Independence\/United Nations Day everyone!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c6x2qdpnn35po\">Storm Austen<\/a> is coming at us from the south and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmr4ydglq9r3o\">Storm Boelo<\/a> from the north so we had our family lunch of baked potatoes, eggs and salads followed by plum cobbler before the roaring winds and pouring rain arrived in both directions. Hatches are staying battened down for the foreseeable but meanwhile we scored 9 on the GSQ, reducing our average to exactly 10.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Precipice<\/em> by Robert Harris. A2 is appropriately reading <em>The Raging Storm<\/em> by Ann Cleeves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence\/United Nations Day everyone! Storm Austen is coming at us from the south and Storm Boelo from the north so we had our family lunch of baked potatoes, eggs and salads followed by plum cobbler before the roaring winds and pouring rain arrived in both directions. Hatches are staying battened down for the foreseeable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Lunch&#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":[16,5],"tags":[19,20,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843"}],"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=22843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22854,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions\/22854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}