{"id":139,"date":"2012-04-10T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=139"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:08:27","slug":"5-happy-easter-hope-the-bunny-found-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/04\/10\/5-happy-easter-hope-the-bunny-found-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter. Hope The Bunny Found You."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my favourite day of the year, especially when a dark chocolate Lindt bunny lands on your bed.<\/p>\n<p>And continuing in the vein of good news, we managed to source a place locally in Hertford to fit us out with gas.\u00a0 Bad news is, they can&#8217;t fit us in until Thursday 19 April.\u00a0 This means we can&#8217;t even travel around England much as we have no heating, hot water, or cooker until the 19th.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ll just keep visiting Eileen up at Chris&#8217; warehouse and maybe take her out for day trips.\u00a0 Thanks are therefore necessary to Andy and Carole for continuing to let us live in your house and use your spare car&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile we&#8217;ve done a bit more shopping to keep the economy boosted.\u00a0 We&#8217;re now the proud owners of a polarity tester, apparently they reverse the polarity in France at some camp sites!\u00a0 We have coat hangers, tumblers, some teaspoons and most importantly, the electric cable for hooking up to power when we don&#8217;t want to run the battery flat.\u00a0 We hope we&#8217;ve purchased the right one&#8230;&#8230;we&#8217;ll check it out later today.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from shopping, we finally did a bit of &#8220;touristing&#8221; yesterday.\u00a0 We spent an hour in the neighbouring town of Ware visiting Scott&#8217;s Grotto <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.scotts-grotto.org\/CMS\/index.php <\/span>.\u00a0 I have been there before, probably 28 years ago, but despite growing up so close to the place, Rodney had never been there.\u00a0 It is hardly ever open, but it is worth visiting as it must be one of the biggest grottos in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/04\/10\/5-happy-easter-hope-the-bunny-found-you\/p1060559\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124\" title=\"Rodney outside Scott's Grotto, Ware\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1060559-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rodney outside Scott&#8217;s Grotto, Ware<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/04\/10\/5-happy-easter-hope-the-bunny-found-you\/p1060551\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123\" title=\"Laura inside Scott's Grotto, Ware\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1060551-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shell decoration on the walls<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/04\/10\/5-happy-easter-hope-the-bunny-found-you\/p1060553\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125\" title=\"The dark tunnels inside Scott's Grotto, Ware\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1060553-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1060553-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1060553-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A dark tunnel inside Scott&#8217;s Grotto, Ware<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my favourite day of the year, especially when a dark chocolate Lindt bunny lands on your bed. 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