{"id":759,"date":"2007-12-22T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/22\/a-bit-of-holiday-quiet\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:25:14","slug":"a-bit-of-holiday-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/22\/a-bit-of-holiday-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of holiday quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/79239770\/\" title=\"A quiet night's snowfall by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/40\/79239770_aa41afcf89.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"A quiet night's snowfall\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re up in Preston with WeatherGirl&#8217;s Mum for the holidays.  Bandwidth here at her house is limited and at least mildly awkward, so there probably won&#8217;t be much posting from here.<\/p>\n<p>The snow shot is from Morris a couple of years ago &#8211; the word is that they&#8217;re definitely gonna have snow on the ground for Xmas.  It&#8217;s quite cold for the UK up here in Preston, but nothing on what it&#8217;s like in Minnesota.  It&#8217;s a bit below freezing at night and heavy frost sometimes lasting the whole day.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/blogging\/\" title=\"blogging\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/family\/\" title=\"Family\">Family<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/holidays\/\" title=\"holidays\">holidays<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/weather\/\" title=\"weather\">weather<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/we-can-all-make-history-come-alive\/\" title=\"We can all make history come alive (9 Jan 08)\">We can all make history come alive<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/20\/new-ways-to-bore-you-with-our-holiday-photos\/\" title=\"New ways to bore you with our holiday photos (20 Jan 08)\">New ways to bore you with our holiday photos<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re up in Preston with WeatherGirl&#8217;s Mum for the holidays. Bandwidth here at her house is limited and at least mildly awkward, so there probably won&#8217;t be much posting from here. The snow shot is from Morris a couple of years ago &#8211; the word is that they&#8217;re definitely gonna have snow on the ground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/22\/a-bit-of-holiday-quiet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bit of holiday quiet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,873,122,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":761,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/24\/happy-xmas-eve\/","url_meta":{"origin":759,"position":0},"title":"Happy Xmas Eve :-)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"24 Dec 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Just before we came up to Preston for the holidays I was able to spend some time taking photos in the beautiful frost we'd been having in Colchester. 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