{"id":69245,"date":"2025-08-30T22:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69245"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:34:12","slug":"diane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/08\/diane-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting up with Diane Field<\/p>\n<p>in Welshpool yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Sitting just outside a Cafe<\/p>\n<p>close enough to say<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>hello nice to meet you<\/p>\n<p>clearly someone who<\/p>\n<p>dresses well with an ebullience<\/p>\n<p>very much on view<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>speaking crisply<\/p>\n<p>speaking well<\/p>\n<p>and she was good to hear<\/p>\n<p>a bit like me<\/p>\n<p>not enough space<\/p>\n<p>outside to easily<br \/>\nSit down<\/p>\n<p>not enough space<\/p>\n<p>with cakes and \u00a0mugs of tea<\/p>\n<p>a busy Road at the back of us<\/p>\n<p>Chatting \u00a0earnestly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>as I got up she \u00a0eye balled me<\/p>\n<p>Do you need a hand ? she said<\/p>\n<p>Thank you \u00a0Dear I answered<\/p>\n<p>at least I am well fed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>she explained that she was in her eighties<\/p>\n<p>a clothes shop proprietor<\/p>\n<p>open three days every week<\/p>\n<p>vintage clothes \u00a0and at her peak<\/p>\n<p>she loved her \u00a0job \u00a0and she<\/p>\n<p>gave us a card \u00a0come by and see me<\/p>\n<p>it made sense actually<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We thanked her said we would come back<\/p>\n<p>and enjoy seeing her lovely things<\/p>\n<p>judging by her persona<\/p>\n<p>The confidence she brings<\/p>\n<p>to every single facet<\/p>\n<p>of \u00a0each sentence she expresses<\/p>\n<p>and surely it will be indeed a pleasure<\/p>\n<p>to see her dresses.<\/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<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>Meeting up with Diane Field in Welshpool yesterday Sitting just outside a Cafe close enough to say &nbsp; hello nice to meet you clearly someone who dresses well with an ebullience very much on view &nbsp; speaking crisply speaking well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/08\/diane-2\/\">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":[905,780,14,598,764,54,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-being-an-old-aged-pensioner","category-business-testimonials","category-duty-of-care-was-always-there","category-jewellery","category-people-i-have-observed","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69245","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=69245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69249,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69245\/revisions\/69249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}