{"id":1477,"date":"2008-10-18T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/10\/18\/autumnal-observations\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T14:55:59","slug":"autumnal-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes from my walk around Cambridge today. The guy I know who runs a tiling warehouse store (I was his first customer 15 years ago) said the bottom just fell out of his market 3 weeks ago. He is a loyal Barclays customer with a 40K overdraft, without warning or for any reason they suddenly decided they want him to pay 11% for his overdraft! Impossible for him to change banks, the other banks are not taking on new business customers!<\/p>\n<p>The gym I joined , to get a decent clean swimming pool, gave me 15months membership for the price of 11 plus I got loads of visitor passes for Sally to use. The gym seemed very busy.<\/p>\n<p>The queues at the tills in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitestuff.com\/\">White Stuff<\/a> for their midseason sale where humungous and the shop was heaving.<\/p>\n<p>The outdoor shop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openair.co.uk\/\">Open Air<\/a> was totally deserted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/uk\">Apple<\/a> store was packed, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>The streets were busy with the new students and it is a glorious autumnal day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/the-cam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"669\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes from my walk around Cambridge today. The guy I know who runs a tiling warehouse store (I was his first customer 15 years ago) said the bottom just fell out of his market 3 weeks ago. He is a loyal Barclays customer with a 40K overdraft, without warning or for any reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[59,73,102],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge","category-personal","tag-apple","tag-barclays","tag-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}