{"id":2760,"date":"2013-10-16T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2013-10-29T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:02:47","slug":"learning-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/learning-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1376523_10152021001275676_1545808737_n\"A couple of weeks ago, I spent the weekend in the company of some old school friends (not to mention various chickens, ferrets and cats) at one of our number’s rather gorgeous and very spacious Georgian\/Victorian house. Well, with 3 acres, it’s more of an estate really and all of the vegetables we ate for dinner we’d picked fresh from the kitchen garden. If that weren’t enough to elicit envy<\/del> admiration, her kitchen is bigger than my living room. I wanted to move in! (My DH kindly offered to parcel up and send the dog and Ebay the children).<\/p>\n

At the big multi-class school reunion (held at the school) last October, our class vowed to stay in touch and try to get together at least once or twice a year. This is our second get together since (not counting a few of us going to see Pete Murphy). Sadly, most couldn’t make it for one reason or another, but this certainly did not stop a good time being had by all present (as if it would) including a slightly drunken Skype call to Spain to share the good times. (To be fair, we did at least get lunch out of the way before hitting the wine\/gin.)<\/p>\n

Despite the alcohol consumption, it was a learning experience and these are the things I learned:<\/p>\n