{"id":106,"date":"2007-08-29T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/29\/things-coming-up-or-that-have-been-that-are-exciting-me\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T15:50:49","slug":"things-coming-up-or-that-have-been-that-are-exciting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Things coming up (or that have been) that are exciting me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After you see the list, you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;m VERY easy to please \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I purchased myself a &#8220;new&#8221; used mobile phone on eBay. When I was in Oz, my niece had a Samsung D520, I thought it was a nice looking phone and had the things I wanted to upgrade my phone for &#8211; mp3 playing and ringtones, video play and record and Bluetooth. I knew it was a Samsung, but had to check with her what model it was. After getting her reply, I looked on eBay (before that I&#8217;d be chasing a Nokia 5200 but wasn&#8217;t having much luck getting one for the \u00a340 mark) and someone was selling a used D520 for \u00a330. I thought great price for a well specified phone, so jumped at it. Now I am EAGERLY awaiting its arrival in the post.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.ferra.ru\/images\/116\/116908.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung D520\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other thing that is exciting me is the sight of two baby goldfinches in the garden. They arrived yesterday with the regular pair, who I can only assume are mum and dad of these babies.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the prospect of being able to get out and about next week as we might be hiring a car for several days so Em can help out a mate of hers with his computer stuff. Somehow getting around the UK on public transport is just not very appealing. I&#8217;ll give you an example why.<\/p>\n<p>We live around 35 miles (around 56 kms) from Cambridge. When we had a car, we might visit Cambridge 2-3 times a year. Needless to say we&#8217;ve not been there since being without a car. That journey to Cambridge by car would take around 45 minutes.\u00a0 That same journey via public transport would take at least an extra hour and cost \u00a340 (around $95 Australian) for two people!! We could hire a car for the day and be able to buy the fuel to get us to and from Cambridge for the same amount of money! It&#8217;s obscene!\u00a0 That&#8217;s why we &#8220;don&#8217;t do&#8221; public transport in Britain. Not because we don&#8217;t want to, but because it&#8217;s a total waste of time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After you see the list, you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;m VERY easy to please \ud83d\ude42 Firstly, I purchased myself a &#8220;new&#8221; used mobile phone on eBay. When I was in Oz, my niece had a Samsung D520, I thought it was a nice looking phone and had the things I wanted to upgrade my phone for &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things coming up (or that have been) that are exciting me.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,283,309,320,327,347],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-birds","tag-shopping","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}