{"id":762,"date":"2009-02-02T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/02\/02\/snow-days-grand-openings-and-a-chummy-prince\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:01:23","slug":"snow-days-grand-openings-and-a-chummy-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/02\/02\/snow-days-grand-openings-and-a-chummy-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"snow days, grand openings and a chummy prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a kid today, because here in Cardiff we are having a SNOW DAY! Of course, there is absolutely no snow to be seen in Cardiff L, but elsewhere in Britain, the nation has been pounded by a wintery onslaught of as much as THREE INCHES of the substance they call \u201cThe White Death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s really nothing better than a Snow Day- we love them as kids because of the freedom from school, but as adults, it\u2019s the rare thing to suddenly find that you are free, as opposed to finding that you AREN\u201dT, which seems to be my usual case.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think I\u2019m being a bit tough on the United Kingdom of New Scandinavia, let me say two good things about the great nation in which I\u2019ve made my new home. First- I FINALLY have my permanent settlement visa. To all my friends who have made the mistake of asking how my visa progress was going, I apologize- it\u2019s all done now!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Second, Suzanne met and had a lovely and surprisingly chilled out conversation with Charlie, the Big C, his Priciness, the heir with the hair, the most famous ex-husband in history after the BBC NOW concert on Friday. How cool is that. It\u2019s actually the second time they\u2019ve met- he\u2019s a very sweet guy as far as anyone who has met him can tell. I don\u2019t know why the media are always such bastards to him.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few snaps of the new Hoddinott Hall. You can hear the orchestra breaking in the space on your BBC I Player for the next few days here.<\/p>\n<p>And here are some snaps of the new space, which the orchestra badly needed and richly deserved! I\u2019m looking forward to my first session in there.<span \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 440px; height: 288px\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/images\/hoddinott5.jpg\" width=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 437px; height: 300px\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/images\/hoddinott4.jpg\" width=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 425px; height: 289px\" height=\"289\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/images\/hoddinott3.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/02\/02\/snow-days-grand-openings-and-a-chummy-prince\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a kid today, because here in Cardiff we are having a SNOW DAY! Of course, there is absolutely no snow to be seen in Cardiff L, but elsewhere in Britain, the nation has been pounded by a wintery onslaught of as much as THREE INCHES of the substance they call \u201cThe White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}