{"id":15242,"date":"2015-06-07T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2015\/06\/07\/last-night-in-wick\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"last-night-in-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2015\/06\/07\/last-night-in-wick\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night in Wick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1435\/20150607_170200345_iOS-1024x768.jpg.webp\" alt=\"20150607_170200345_iOS\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>Our wee hoose is empty now, and we&#8217;re sleeping in duvets on the floor &#8212; like we weren&#8217;t stiff and totally beat already from all the packing. But the movers came yesterday and carted all our stuff away. Some of it we&#8217;ll see in months over in Canada, some of it on Tuesday when it arrives at the in-laws. Hey, they asked for it! We&#8217;re going to forgo our overnight in Inverness, where we were going to visit friends, and drive straight down tomorrow so we can help out. The giant moving lorry won&#8217;t fit down that little lane at Brentham Knowe!<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>After Craig did some work this morning and I did some more house-cleaning, we drove out to the Castle of Mey for lunch, then out see our friend Norman at the Dunnet Head lighthouse. We\u00a0gave him yet more\u00a0of the belongings we can&#8217;t take with us. The sun shone down on all the grass, the pink sea-thrift flowers, the sea-birds whirling around the cliffs, and glittered off the waves between us and the Orkney Islands.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>This is a great place, and I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re really not going to live here anymore.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>Then we\u00a0drove back to Wick, where Craig dropped me off and headed back to work, where he&#8217;ll probably be until late tonight. That part I won&#8217;t miss!<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our wee hoose is empty now, and we&#8217;re sleeping in duvets on the floor &#8212; like we weren&#8217;t stiff and totally beat already from all the packing. But the movers came yesterday and carted all our stuff away. Some of it we&#8217;ll see in months over in Canada, some of it on Tuesday when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}