{"id":54306,"date":"2022-06-30T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=54306"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:35:03","slug":"the-avebury-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-avebury-shocker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avebury Shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had visited Avebury<\/p>\n<p>it had been a wet day<\/p>\n<p>an on our way home<\/p>\n<p>There \u00a0had been a delay<\/p>\n<p>the SatNav \u00a0was playing up<\/p>\n<p>as we drove back<\/p>\n<p>It told us to leave \u00a0the main road<\/p>\n<p>to a track<\/p>\n<p>To \u00a0a road without lights<\/p>\n<p>a few \u00a0houses on the right<\/p>\n<p>we drive slowly down there<\/p>\n<p>into a wet night<\/p>\n<p>further \u00a0and further<\/p>\n<p>the road narrowing, and<\/p>\n<p>on both sides a bog<\/p>\n<p>and very wet land<\/p>\n<p>in the middle was grass<\/p>\n<p>and gradually we<\/p>\n<p>Got to a field<\/p>\n<p>we were lost tragically<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we couldn\u2019t turn around<\/p>\n<p>we had to reverse<\/p>\n<p>back all the way<\/p>\n<p>it was just like \u00a0some curse<\/p>\n<p>both \u00a0sides \u00a0a bog we had to drive slow<\/p>\n<p>and straight, \u00a0no mistakes<\/p>\n<p>Or in the bog we would go.<\/p>\n<p>it took nearly an hour<\/p>\n<p>fear took a hold<\/p>\n<p>it was raining hard<\/p>\n<p>and very cold<\/p>\n<p>the bog became wetter<\/p>\n<p>The fear \u00a0in me too<\/p>\n<p>made me shake \u00a0a bit<\/p>\n<p>Wondering what \u00a0i would do<\/p>\n<p>if I got stuck \u00a0in the bog<\/p>\n<p>all night in the dark<\/p>\n<p>possibly sinking<\/p>\n<p>no place to park<\/p>\n<p>i carried on slowly<\/p>\n<p>over an hour<\/p>\n<p>till I got \u00a0out of the track<\/p>\n<p>and got back some power<\/p>\n<p>turned off Sat Nav<\/p>\n<p>and drove home relieved<\/p>\n<p>That \u00a0I had got myself out of that<\/p>\n<p>and relieved<\/p>\n<p>laid down to sleep<\/p>\n<p>pleased to be back<\/p>\n<p>since then<\/p>\n<p>I have remembered \u00a0that old muddy track<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had visited Avebury it had been a wet day an on our way home There \u00a0had been a delay the SatNav \u00a0was playing up as we drove back It told us to leave \u00a0the main road to a track &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-avebury-shocker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54309,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306\/revisions\/54309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}