{"id":389,"date":"2014-03-30T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-07-08T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:45:50","slug":"can-it-get-busier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Can it get busier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No days off for us, unlike our neighbours with the steam engine!<\/p>\n<p>I keep asking myself the above question. Trying not to stumble under massive irony &#8211; We have phone and internet at Easterdown, but at the cottage where we are staying someone accidentally put a chainsaw through the telephone line, so no internet\/email\/voip in the evenings. Tough to arrange stuff, but we&#8217;re still progressing &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kitchen starting to look like\u2026a Kitchen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kitchenTakingShape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kitchenTakingShape.jpg\" alt=\"kitchenTakingShape\" width=\"700\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting the telephone line under the drive and into the cabin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gettingPhoneLineIntoCabin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gettingPhoneLineIntoCabin.jpg\" alt=\"gettingPhoneLineIntoCabin\" width=\"700\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike retains his crown as King of string.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BringingPhoneIntoCabin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BringingPhoneIntoCabin.jpg\" alt=\"BringingPhoneIntoCabin\" width=\"700\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a lovely, sunny day. We kept hearing this steam whistle and thought, we&#8217;re a bit far from the West Somerset railway. Then we found out what our neighbours get up to when they have a free moment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamOnASunnyDayInSomerset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-396\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamOnASunnyDayInSomerset.jpg\" alt=\"DrivingSteamOnASunnyDayInSomerset\" width=\"804\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamOnASunnyDayInSomerset.jpg 804w, http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamOnASunnyDayInSomerset-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very cheerful sound chugging past the gate at Easterdown!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamPastEasterdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-395\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamPastEasterdown.jpg\" alt=\"DrivingSteamPastEasterdown\" width=\"700\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamPastEasterdown.jpg 700w, http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DrivingSteamPastEasterdown-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike got on with adding a half a metre to the pallet where our battery bank will rest. Due to arrive on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/buildingPlatformForBatteries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-394\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/buildingPlatformForBatteries.jpg\" alt=\"buildingPlatformForBatteries\" width=\"700\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/buildingPlatformForBatteries.jpg 700w, http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/buildingPlatformForBatteries-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are constantly struck by the brilliant, thoughtful design of this cabin. How on earth did Mike and Leila (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roderickjamesarchitects.com\">Roderick James Architects<\/a>) manage to put the verandah at Dexter&#8217;s perfect drinking height?<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BringingPhoneIntoCabin.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DexterDrinkingHeight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DexterDrinkingHeight.jpg\" alt=\"DexterDrinkingHeight\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DexterDrinkingHeight.jpg 450w, http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DexterDrinkingHeight-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No days off for us, unlike our neighbours with the steam engine! I keep asking myself the above question. Trying not to stumble under massive irony &#8211; We have phone and internet at Easterdown, but at the cottage where we are staying someone accidentally put a chainsaw through the telephone line, so no internet\/email\/voip in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[27,12],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carpenteroak","category-building","tag-carpenteroak","tag-rja_llp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.easterdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}