{"id":45399,"date":"2025-04-04T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=45399"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:39:03","slug":"lines-in-the-estuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/lines-in-the-estuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines in the Estuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anna keeps telling me that I need to just accept that I&#8217;m getting older and embrace it &#8211; but where&#8217;s the fun in that? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s much more fun to don a rubber suit, strap myself to several thousand pounds\u2019 worth of carbon fibre and monofilm, and draw some lines on the water!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been blowing a hoolie all week with wall-to-wall sunshine, but I\u2019ve been stuck at work every day. Today was my day off and my first chance to get out. 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