{"id":618,"date":"2007-10-16T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/10\/16\/things-back-home\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T12:36:38","slug":"things-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/10\/16\/things-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Things back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still enjoying all the things I missed while I was in Nigeria.  I&#8217;ve also been occasionally looking after my nephew and niece:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Stirling\/Family\/SeriousJosephAndEve_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Stirling\/Family\/SeriousJosephAndEve_t.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph in the foreground looking very serious, Eve behind him.\" title=\"Joseph looking very serious (trying to grab the camera), Eve behind him.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wandering around Stirling I&#8217;ve noticed a few things.  The first is how few people there are on the streets.  Outside the main shopping areas you meet few pedestrians, everyone seems to be in cars.  Stirling town centre is also full of CCTV cameras.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/CCTVCamera_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/CCTVCamera_t.jpg\" alt=\"CCTV camera bolted to the side of a tenement building.\" title=\"CCTV camera in the Upper Craigs.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/QueenStreet_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/QueenStreet_t.jpg\" alt=\"A steeply sloping street, wet after recent rain.\" title=\"The bottom of Queen Street in Stirling.\" \/><\/a>(that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;time=&#038;date=&#038;ttype=&#038;q=Queen+St,+Stirling+FK8,+United+Kingdom&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=60.288153,84.990234&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;cd=1&#038;geocode=0,56.123265,-3.941125&#038;ll=56.122855,-3.940229&#038;spn=0.010537,0.02075&#038;z=16&#038;iwloc=addr&#038;om=1\">Queen Street<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The second thing was how many signs there are.  That&#8217;s official signs, rather than Nigeria&#8217;s profusion of advertising banners and political posters.  Signs to warn you of penalties for not cleaning up after your dog, signs to identify lampposts, road traffic instruction signs and directional signs.  Road signs in Nigeria are particularly bad, there are standard signs defined but various authorities each use different ones instead.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/Signs1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/Signs1_t.jpg\" alt=\"'Clean up after your dog' sign and lamppost ID tag.\" title=\"Signs on a lamppost near Mum and Dad's house.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/Signs2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/Signs2_t.jpg\" alt=\"A no entry and a give way sign.\" title=\"Road signs.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/Signs3_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Stirling\/OutAndAbout\/Signs3_t.jpg\" alt=\"A directional sign at the Craigs roundabout.\" title=\"Road signs.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent the weekend visiting my Grandparents down in Norfolk, Eleanor was there as well.  We took our usual walk down to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;time=&#038;date=&#038;ttype=&#038;q=wroxham+yacht+club,+wroxham,+uk&#038;sll=52.703994,1.416636&#038;sspn=0.011455,0.02075&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=52.697128,1.41597&#038;spn=0.011456,0.02075&#038;t=h&#038;z=16&#038;om=1\">Wroxham Broad<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Wroxham\/Oct07\/Swan1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Wroxham\/Oct07\/Swan1_t.jpg\" alt=\"A swan.\" title=\"A swan on Wroxham Broad.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Wroxham\/Oct07\/GrannyAndEleanor_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Wroxham\/Oct07\/GrannyAndEleanor_t.jpg\" alt=\"Granny and Eleanor sitting on a wooden bench on a lawn.\" title=\"Granny and Eleanor at Wroxham Broad.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Wroxham\/Oct07\/Yacht_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Wroxham\/Oct07\/Yacht_t.jpg\" alt=\"A small yacht, ducks in the foreground.\" title=\"A yacht on Wroxham Broad.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still enjoying all the things I missed while I was in Nigeria. I&#8217;ve also been occasionally looking after my nephew and niece: Wandering around Stirling I&#8217;ve noticed a few things. The first is how few people there are on the streets. Outside the main shopping areas you meet few pedestrians, everyone seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}