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\"LeftLast Monday Mat rallied the troops for a picnic in Richmond Park<\/a> for Steph’s birthday. What a lovely day – great food, blankets, an ‘airflo’ football match, sunny weather and to top it all off we regressed to being 12-year-olds again and played ‘let’s try and kick the football at x<\/em> as he rides by on a bike. An awesome day.<\/p>\n

Watch out for more photos from the picnic on NotMyFace<\/a> very shortly.<\/p>\n

On a slightly different note, I meant to blog this on my way home but found my PocketPC can’t rotate images…since then, work got in the way and now it’s Friday night! Does anyone know a good, free, image manipulation app for PocketPC?<\/p><\/div>\n

Last Monday Mat rallied the troops for a picnic in Richmond Park for Steph’s birthday. What a lovely day – great food, blankets, an ‘airflo’ football match, sunny weather and to top it all off we regressed to being 12-year-olds again and played ‘let’s try and kick the football at x as he rides by […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":240,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/22\/stock-car-racing\/","url_meta":{"origin":34,"position":0},"title":"Stock car racing","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"22 September 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Sunday my wife, Mat and I went over to Bovingdon airfield to watch the stock car racing. 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