Well, today I got the Official Ruler and made good use (well, almost – I\u2019m a crap photographer) of the office digital camera:<\/p>\n
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Now, as this ball is made up entirely of the red elastic bands that come wrapped around the mail – can I claim it to be \u201cBy Royal Appointment to HRH<\/a>\u2026\u201d or would I just be risking the wrath of our good Liz?<\/p>\n Anyhoo, at just over 5\u2033 diameter (127.000254mm for the metric monsters out there) it\u2019ll soon be time to get it up on Ebay \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Oh, I\u2019m trying to lay my hands on one of those Nintendo Wii<\/a> consoles (they\u2019re like rocking horse poo over here), so my weekly phone call to Toys ‘R’ Us<\/a> this morning was slightly different – rather than the usual \u201cGot any Wiis coming in?\u201d was replaced by the laugh-\u2019til- you-cry:<\/p>\n \u201dDo you have any Wii on your hands?<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n Cue me laughing like a manic laughing thing, and the guy the other end snorting (glad I don;t have to use that phone after him) for a good 2 minutes before he could answer.<\/p>\n Personally I think I deserve one for the unique way I asked\u2026Hmm\u2026opens up Word:<\/p>\n Dear Nintendo,<\/em><\/p>\n I think I need to lay off the strong coffee a bit\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TGND\u2019s been kinda slack at blogging recently – with the last elastic band ball update in May. Well, today I got the Official Ruler and made good use (well, almost – I\u2019m a crap photographer) of the office digital camera: Now, as this ball is made up entirely of the red elastic bands that come wrapped around the mail – can I claim it to be \u201cBy Royal Appointment to HRH\u2026\u201d or would I just be risking the wrath of our good Liz? Anyhoo, at just over 5\u2033 diameter (127.000254mm for the metric monsters out there) it\u2019ll soon be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[181,184,274,383,396,551,568,619],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-ebay","tag-elastic-band","tag-hrh","tag-nintendo","tag-official-ruler","tag-tgnd","tag-toys-r-us","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}