{"id":505,"date":"2008-09-03T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T09:28:25","slug":"the-perfect-anniversary-gift-alessi-lovebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/505","title":{"rendered":"The perfect anniversary gift &#8211; Alessi lovebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Allessi Birds of Paradise\" title=\"Allessi Birds of Paradise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/allessi_birds.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stumped as to what to buy my lovely wife as a seventh wedding anniversary gift, I consulted one of many lists available online for guidance. Apparently, traditionally, in year seven one should buy one&#8217;s better half something made from wool (presumably the source of the term &#8216;seven year itch&#8217;) whilst the modern day alternative is a Desk Set ( I kid ye not..!)<\/p>\n<p>Uninspired by the idea of knitting Sarah a handy desk tidy (inexplicably, there isn&#8217;t a range of desk accessories derived from wool in my local Ryman stationers &#8211; a possible gap in the market there Theo&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking &#8216;Eco-Executive&#8217;..!) I decided to hot-foot it to my favourite designer homewares emporium.<\/p>\n<p>Suspecting that my wife harbours a secret admiration for dining table accessories on an avian theme and flouting accepted wedding anniversary gift ettiquette, I settled on this <a title=\"Alessi - Birds of Paradise\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alessi.co.uk\/ashop-uk\/design-products\/oil-cruets-condiment-sets-90138\/salt-and-pepper-set-paradise-birds-4184.html\">Birds of Paradise<\/a> salt and pepper set from <a title=\"Alessi\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alessi.com\">Alessi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumped as to what to buy my lovely wife as a seventh wedding anniversary gift, I consulted one of many lists available online for guidance. Apparently, traditionally, in year seven one should buy one&#8217;s better half something made from wool (presumably the source of the term &#8216;seven year itch&#8217;) whilst the modern day alternative is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}