{"id":233,"date":"2012-01-28T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2012-01-28T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T07:10:06","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-24-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things: days 24-28"},"content":{"rendered":"

24th Jan – A visitor arrived at the Housing flats but, before getting out of his car, was assailed by a tenant spewing the loudest tirade of abuse yet heard in this street.\u00a0 It was about money paid as maintenance for her 2 granddaughters – $50 a week.\u00a0 Her vocabulary was quickly exhausted, so for about 10 minutes she repeated two obscene words several times in each sentence.<\/p>\n

25th Jan – I noticed when I knock on a door gently to wake someone, only the knuckle of my middle finger does the knocking.<\/p>\n

26th Jan – A manuscript appraiser suggested I break up my translated text using a dinkus.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s a tiny design dividing otherwise undivided text.\u00a0 I like this one.<\/p>\n

And below, here’s one in place.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dinkus in\u00a0 ‘Almost French’ by Sarah Turnbull<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

27th Jan – My breakfast-on-the-deck was better than usual:\u00a0 I saw a possum curled up in a corner of the roof guttering.\u00a0 Turned out she was hiding something…<\/p>\n

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A possum hiding something...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And then there were two!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Possums uncurled and stacked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

28th Jan – As I drove onto the bridge to cross the lake, I had to slow for 15 horses and riders and a black and white sheepdog in my lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24th Jan – A visitor arrived at the Housing flats but, before getting out of his car, was assailed by a tenant spewing the loudest tirade of abuse yet heard in this street.\u00a0 It was about money paid as maintenance for her 2 granddaughters – $50 a week.\u00a0 Her vocabulary was quickly exhausted, so for … <\/p>\n

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