Quiet Stroll

June 10th, 2006 - 16:08 | 6 comments

Walking around during the football was undeniably quieter, but there were still a fair few people: mostly young women and older couples. I heard the occasional distant roar, and ‘yes!’s from people lying in the park with radios. There was this guy, too:

Sorry about the quality. It wasn’t that great anyway, but certainly better than YouTube’s compression would suggest.

My cunning plan regarding going to the supermarket was flawed: they had no staff.

The match has just finished, I think, and the church bells are ringing!

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6 Responses to “Quiet Stroll”

1 Skuds Jun 10th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

Four years ago I gave up watching the England/Sweden game so we could drive back from my sister’s wedding in York. It was like 28 Days Later! It onyl took about 2 hours to get home.

But what I really want to know is how you embedded that video. I tried using the code on YouTube to embed video and it would not work with Wordpress - whats the secret?
2 Andrew Jun 10th, 2006 at 10:54 pm

Hmm, I haven’t done anything special. You’re using the embed code that begins with (ignore brackets) (< )object(>)?
3 Skuds Jun 10th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

Yep.

I think it might be something to do with the WYSIWYG editor. I tried editing in HTML mode and it all disappeared. I’ll try turning that off and trying again.
4 Ed Jun 11th, 2006 at 9:25 am

What’s with that editor thing? I tried turning it back on but creating a link by just typing it in completely breaks. I get (
5 Ed Jun 11th, 2006 at 9:26 am

Hmmm
It took my comment!
[a xhref="blah"]link[/a]
6 Andrew Jun 11th, 2006 at 2:15 pm

Ed - I don’t think you can type HTML in the WYSIWYG editor, afaik you have to use the buttons. I gave up on it eventually.

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