{"id":1051,"date":"2013-12-22T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2013-12-22T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:28:32","slug":"winter-solstace-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tatnam patch crowd thick skinned and sturdy, so there we were yesterday, just as usual, enjoying the shortest day, third Saturday of the month, so a normal workday. But, in honour of the Solstice date, original winter feast, and the wet wild and windy weather, we mostly stayed in the greenhouse. Ben made repeated forays out to the storm kettle in search of making tea, and Marcos was busy digging up a small tree, whilst the rest of us mostly just ate and drank.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/winter_solstace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1052\" alt=\"2013 TOPS Winter Solstace in the greenhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/winter_solstace.jpg\" width=\"788\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/winter_solstace.jpg 3648w, http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/winter_solstace-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/winter_solstace-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a butternut squash soup from Gary, \u00c2\u00a0which went well with stuffing that Ken had made, and homebaked bread from Andy. A three-meat pasta dish that Mark brought along, mince pies from Marcos and Fizz and as tradition dictates, a crumble from the maestro herself, Jan. I&#8217;ve probably forgotten something, oh my homebrew beer and gary&#8217;s mulled wine, which included soaking toasted almonds and raisins in the making.<\/p>\n<p>There was a discussion about how the new peach tree in the greenhouse would be corralled into shape, grown indoors to avoid peach leaf curl apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Happy yule to all !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tatnam patch crowd thick skinned and sturdy, so there we were yesterday, just as usual, enjoying the shortest day, third Saturday of the month, so a normal workday. But, in honour of the Solstice date, original winter feast, and the wet wild and windy weather, we mostly stayed in the greenhouse. Ben made repeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-workdays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11qW2-gX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}