{"id":10650,"date":"2021-11-22T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=10650"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T10:27:17","slug":"cutting-back-the-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=10650","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Back The Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1979\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1979\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=593%2C76\" data-orig-size=\"593,76\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"environment\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=300%2C38\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=593%2C76\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?resize=593%2C76\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?w=593 593w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?resize=300%2C38 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On a beautiful autumn morning the team set about cutting back the roses on the village green. Ieuan brought along his new cordless hedge trimmer and demonstrated its effectiveness. Team member Brian was absent due to being summoned to Switzerland to work on the Hadron Collider. Have looked it up and apparently it&#8217;s quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10547\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=10547\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Picture7-e1637576468198.jpg?fit=500%2C314\" data-orig-size=\"500,314\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Picture7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Picture7-e1637576468198.jpg?fit=300%2C189\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Picture7-e1637576468198.jpg?fit=860%2C541\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Picture7-e1637576468198.jpg?resize=500%2C314\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our next get together will be on the 8th November at 9.30 to clear the area at the entrance to Clos Llan Fair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP On a beautiful autumn morning the team set about cutting back the roses on the village green. Ieuan brought along his new cordless hedge trimmer and demonstrated its effectiveness. Team member Brian was absent due to being summoned to Switzerland to work on the Hadron Collider. Have looked it up and apparently it&#8217;s quite impressive. Our next [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-2LM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7409,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=7409","url_meta":{"origin":10650,"position":0},"title":"A Lovely March Morning","author":"Alan Williams","date":"2nd April 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A Lovely March Morning On a lovely March morning, the large turnout (4) cut back the roses on the village green. 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