{"id":173,"date":"2013-04-21T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=173"},"modified":"2018-02-11T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T10:53:23","slug":"2013421a-bit-gingy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"A bit gingy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Falklands blog for Sunday April 21 2013
As my nephew used to say: a bit gingy (windy) today, but a gusty warm north east wind; sounds like an oxymoron, but here, when the south wind does blow, we shall have snow. <\/p>\n

A parade for the Queen’s birthday, and a severe test for the headdress of those on parade; peaked caps were worn with the chin strap applied, but berets did not fare too well. I was most impressed with the Governor’s cocked hat with feathers, that proved superbly aerodynamic and that did not budge an inch.<\/p>\n

The band of 150(Y) Tpt Regt RLC played bravely, the music coming and going with the gusts of wind. They had put on a concert to raise money for the guides at the Town Hall on Friday. They are a TA band from the RLC with a slight leavening of RAMC bandsmen and played well at the Cathedral for the Memorial service on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Above the parade, the turkey vultures soared and wheeled. No effort at all to keep these large birds aloft \u2013 just sheer enjoyment of the warm gusts and up drafts.<\/p>\n

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Official Falkland Islands flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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HE The Governor & CBFSAI (Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands – to the right of the governor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Turkey Vulture – same family as the Condor and links to the Stork family rather than other birds of prey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Falklands blog for Sunday April 21 2013As my nephew used to say: a bit gingy (windy) today, but a gusty warm north east wind; sounds like an oxymoron, but here, when the south wind does blow, we shall have snow. A parade for the Queen’s birthday, and a severe test for the headdress of those on parade; peaked caps were worn with the chin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}