{"id":18820,"date":"2013-03-18T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2013-03-18T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:52:39","slug":"day-77-third-time-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/18\/day-77-third-time-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 77: Third Time Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came home, via the garage after having a headlight bulb replaced, to find that the road outside our house has been dug up for the third time in an attempt to locate a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gas leak\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gas_leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">gas leak<\/a>. Now, my nose isn&#8217;t the best and I can&#8217;t really smell gas so I haven&#8217;t noticed a problem. Mrs Pitts though has told me a few times now that she can smell gas and we&#8217;ve often had men probing the area trying to locate the leak. It seems like a waste of money to keep digging up the same area though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kit has been\u00a0particularly\u00a0playful today. This morning she virtually danced out of the kitchen when I went downstairs and that was followed by her sitting on my lap and purring very loudly. When I got in the house at the end of the day, she had\u00a0obviously\u00a0been exploring as the pile of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"DVD\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DVD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">DVDs<\/a> earmarked to be placed on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"EBay\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EBay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">eBay<\/a> were scattered all down the cellar stairs. Sorting those out was fun. Her meows certainly told me that she knew something was up though! No harm was done overall.<\/p>\n<p>Work wise, I spent some of the evening marking maths assessments &#8211; last year&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Year Six\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Year_Six\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Year 6<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"SAT\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SAT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">SAT<\/a> Paper A &#8211; in order to help me fill the final few gaps in the last few weeks of teaching before they are let loose onto this year&#8217;s paper. This is another case of third time lucky as it&#8217;s the third such test they&#8217;ve completed this year. Each time has thrown things up \u00a0that I need to cover and those areas have generally become stronger points the next time, only for something else to rear its ugly head!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came home, via the garage after having a headlight bulb replaced, to find that the road outside our house has been dug up for the third time in an attempt to locate a gas leak. Now, my nose isn&#8217;t the best and I can&#8217;t really smell gas so I haven&#8217;t noticed a problem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[1004,1005,1008,1015,1046,1229,1434,1912,3017,3326],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-work","tag-easter","tag-easter-bunny","tag-ebay","tag-education","tag-england","tag-gas-leak","tag-holidays","tag-maths-assessment","tag-time","tag-year-6","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-4Ty","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}