{"id":10,"date":"2005-02-28T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2005\/02\/28\/oh_happy_day\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T18:29:09","slug":"oh_happy_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2005\/02\/28\/oh_happy_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Happy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>You know its been a good day when one of your friends turns to you and says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You look happy, Pete.\u00e2\u20ac? And you know, she was right. There are many frustrations in my life in lots of areas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c personal, family, 24-7 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I am happy. God is good. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m feeling good\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I can only hope that my current outlook on life lasts!<\/p>\n


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\nThis morning (Sunday) I met up with Trev, Amo, Paul and James, and headed off to Tate Britain for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monet, Whistler, Turner\u00e2\u20ac? exhibition that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on at the moment. Although not as good as some of the exhibitions I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve experienced at the Tate before, it was a great time. I do love browsing slowly through a good gallery. Whistlers \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNocturnes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 were particularly interesting, and Monet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s paintings of the Houses of Parliament are always worth a look!
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\nThe added advantage of being at Tate Britain is that it owns several of my all time favourite paintings. Although John Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPlains of Heaven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and John Everett Millais\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mariana weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on display, Millais\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ophelia was. I still remember seeing that painting for the first time. The detail, the light and the colours, transfixed me for over half an hour. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s visit was brief, but it was good to see her again.
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\nTrev couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be in London without visiting the apple store (this time at least). Personally, I can take or leave the whole apple thing. I can see the aesthetic and the ease of use, but I can just do more with a PC, for less money, without ripping off any software. Was good to be able to check my email though \ud83d\ude09
\n<\/a>Amo needed to get to Covent Garden, and we half intentionally stumbled across Cybercandy<\/a> and Magma<\/a>. Covent Garden has some exceedingly cool shops, and these two are particularly interesting. Ridiculously good candy and design literature respectively. Although I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure about Trev\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bag of Road Kill\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nAnd so back to Reading, and a friends 40th birthday, and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You look happy\u00e2\u20ac? comment. And indeed I am. Its been a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know its been a good day when one of your friends turns to you and says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You look happy, Pete.\u00e2\u20ac? And you know, she was right. There are many frustrations in my life in lots of areas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c personal, family, 24-7 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I am happy. God is good. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m feeling good\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I can … Continue reading Oh Happy Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}