{"id":676,"date":"2009-03-31T07:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snee.wordpress.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2009-03-31T07:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:18:41","slug":"ive-not-blogged-much-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;ve not blogged much recently&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But in my defence, I&#8217;ve been busy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\t\tBusy getting back into the whole work routine after my holiday (I <em>DID <\/em>mention I went to Morocco didn&#8217;t I?), and busy seeing the Significant Other (Henceforth known as &#8216;SO&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>\t\tYes, it&#8217;s true &#8211; I am officially no longer single \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\t\tAnyway, back to bloggy stuff:<\/p>\n<p>\t\tMorocco was awesome &#8211; we went just about the right time of year, temperature was 29-31 every day so not too hot. The people there are amazing &#8211; it&#8217;s so good to see different cultures (and I don&#8217;t mean leaving a dinner plate under your bed for 3 weeks).<\/p>\n<p>\t\tCamel riding is something I&#8217;ve done now &#8211; and I got the grumpiest camel EVER! (100% fact) &#8211; when we stopped for a rest, all the others just sat there quietly &#8211; mine had to have it&#8217;s legs tied \ud83d\ude10 bastard tried throwing me twice too!<\/p>\n<p>\t\tHaving said that, it was VERY surreal sending and receiving text messages from the back of a camel (yes, I did turn off my &#8216;Catchphrase&#8217; SMS tone &#8211; didn&#8217;t want to annoy the camel any more than I obviously already was&#8230;). The sunset and sunrise in the desert was pretty spectacular, but nothing will compare to the night sky out there &#8211; so clear and so many stars. Couldn&#8217;t get a picture of it, but the image is clear as you like in my head \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\t\tAfter 3 days of peace and solitude in the desert and mountains, we were dropped back into the centre of Marrakech at about 8pm &#8211; the 3 of us stood there like startled rabbits, all the traffic and people, and the smell of exhaust fumes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tCouldn&#8217;t find the Riad we were staying in, so ended up paying some guy with a cart 20 Diarhams to carry our bags there. Beautiful place though &#8211; buried down a maze of alleyways &#8211; check it out <a title=\"Les Jardins De Mouassine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lesjardinsdemouassine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tManaged to bring back a piece of Moroccan &#8216;chocolate&#8217; and was sitting at home working on a computer having just rolled one, when Harriett turned up. Now I had the munchies, so had opened a bar of chocolate to munch on. Told Harriett to help herself if she wanted some, and jokingly added &#8220;Or try the Moroccan chocolate beside it&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext thing I know she&#8217;s saying &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t taste much like chocolate&#8230;&#8221; Cue both me and Dennis staring open mouthed then giggling &#8220;You ate some?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tHarriett nodded and we both collapsed on the floor laughing like mad things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tBless her.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tOf course, it took 3 days before my cat would even look at me when I got back &#8211; such a sulker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in my defence, I&#8217;ve been busy \ud83d\ude42 Busy getting back into the whole work routine after my holiday (I DID mention I went to Morocco didn&#8217;t I?), and busy seeing the Significant Other (Henceforth known as &#8216;SO&#8217;). Yes, it&#8217;s true &#8211; I am officially no longer single \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, back to bloggy stuff: Morocco was awesome &#8211; we went just about the right time of year, temperature was 29-31 every day so not too hot. The people there are amazing &#8211; it&#8217;s so good to see different cultures (and I don&#8217;t mean leaving a dinner plate under your bed [&hellip;]<\/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":[106,126,162,361],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-camel","tag-chocolate","tag-desert","tag-morocco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}