{"id":30,"date":"2006-10-15T23:36:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-10-16T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T10:37:18","slug":"22-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"22 Days To Go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and as Squage mentioned I went to Field and Trek (and Blacks) in Chelmsford to buy myself various bits and pieces for the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Some \u00c2\u00a3100 shoes were part of it (about 5 times as much as I generally like to spend (I&#8217;m such a fashion nut), but these are niiice all-purpose jobbies), along with various things such as mozzie spray, sleeping bag cover, travel pillow&#8230; still need to get a bag, jacket\/waterproof thing and, of course, hat, but I&#8217;m getting there!<\/p>\n<p>Whilst in Chelmsford I also met up with Dan Nichols, who used to do sports reports and banter on my Dream 107 show back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Twas good to catch up and also find out that he and his mate Dom have got their show nominated for Best Entertainment Show at the SRAs &#8211; for the second year running!  Nice one!  Didn&#8217;t stop RaW getting 8 nominations, mind :-)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the man himself, looking esctatic about his achievement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/squage\/271164285\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/271164285_f40100b734.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Dan from Dan and Dom\" title=\"Dan from Dan and Dom\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>And no, there wasn&#8217;t a solar eclipse.  I just don&#8217;t have a viewfinder at the moment&#8230;<\/small><\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the best of Dan&#8217;s (and Dom&#8217;s) show on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dananddom.com\">their website<\/a>.  If some oddly familar features appear in a future Radio Squage show, it&#8217;ll just be a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>Later I did a muckabout radio show.  If you didn&#8217;t hear it, you missed an hour of possibly the finest, funniest radio in the whole world.  If you did hear it, sorry for being a liar.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, I&#8217;ve just come back from my local&#8217;s pop quiz&#8230; we did&#8230; er&#8230; averagely (4th of 7) and after about 8pm I was wishing to get to bed.  It finished at 11pm.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, bed it is&#8230; I just hope I&#8217;m awake enough to remember how to drive to work tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Toodles,<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and as Squage mentioned I went to Field and Trek (and Blacks) in Chelmsford to buy myself various bits and pieces for the trip. Some \u00c2\u00a3100 shoes were part of it (about 5 times as much as I generally like to spend (I&#8217;m such a fashion nut), but these are niiice all-purpose jobbies), along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}