{"id":32,"date":"2016-06-23T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T21:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:59:12","slug":"the-engagement-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The Engagement Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rosie Baillie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well I know for a fact that my sausage rolls would&#8217;ve been crisper than these ones. There&#8217;s not a thing I don&#8217;t know about making flaky pastry. By the taste of this sorry specimen, there&#8217;s a lot that Jean doesn&#8217;t know about making pastry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOh Jean, I didn&#8217;t see you there, I&#8217;m just enjoying one of your delicious sausage rolls, did you make them yourself? You&#8217;ve certainly got the knack for pastry!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh she didn&#8217;t stop, well probably for the best, I don&#8217;t think I could have said much more about that pastry. Where&#8217;s Bill got to now? I told him not to leave me on my own by the buffet, but look what he&#8217;s gone and done. I think I&#8217;ve already had seven cheese balls, and they aren&#8217;t even all that nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do I do now&nbsp;though? Bill&#8217;s disappeared, and our Andrew&#8217;s glued to Sara&#8217;s side &#8211; that&#8217;s to be expected of course, and&nbsp;Bill did tell me, I do have to remember that its their party. You&#8217;d think he&#8217;d have time to come and chat to his old mum though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara looks almost quite pretty tonight, but I don&#8217;t think that neckline works with her chin. I wonder if Andrew&#8217;s mentioned the wedding dress shopping expedition to her yet, I really feel I should be there, I&#8217;ve an eye for these things, and I mean I&#8217;ve been making curtains for years. Andrew looks so handsome though, he is quite a mix of me and Bill, luckily he got his height from my side, and all of his main features. He must be at least a foot taller than Sara. It still surprises me even now that I ended up marrying someone who was shorter than me. I&#8217;ve had to stick to flats all these years, think of the shoes that I&#8217;ve missed out on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSara, you look beautiful, you&#8217;re positively glowing, let me give you a squeeze! Ooh yes off you go, I didn&#8217;t hear the door there, more guests I&#8217;m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well they&#8217;ll practically have their house kitted out before they even get married, look at all these gifts, people do go over the top these days. But I wish you could have a proper look though, they&#8217;re not opening anything in front of us but I&#8217;d love to see. In my day, for the wedding anyway you had the &#8216;showing of the presents&#8217; and I loved that. I remember my sister&#8217;s bedroom got turned into the viewing area, she was not best pleased, but I think it was just&nbsp;jealousy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara mentioned something the other day about a wedding list, I mean a list where they tell you what they want, they&#8217;ve really got a cheek. And I think she said something about giving people the chance to buy a paving slab for the patio they&#8217;re planning to put in the garden, well I never, I mean how will you wrap that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Baillie Well I know for a fact that my sausage rolls would&#8217;ve been crisper than these ones. There&#8217;s not a thing I don&#8217;t know about making flaky pastry. By the taste of this sorry specimen, there&#8217;s a lot that Jean doesn&#8217;t know about making pastry. \u201cOh Jean, I didn&#8217;t see you there, I&#8217;m just&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=32\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Engagement Party<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}