{"id":27921,"date":"2025-05-28T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27921"},"modified":"2025-06-14T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T21:32:13","slug":"days-out-st-leonards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27921","title":{"rendered":"DAYS OUT: St Leonard\u2019s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_7895-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_7895-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_7895-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_7895-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_7895-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_7895.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New books.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I finished reading James Holland\u2019s superb <em>Sicily, \u201843<\/em>. Later today I\u2019ll start volume three &#8211; <em>The Price of Victory<\/em> &#8211; of Rodger\u2019s British Naval History trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in addition to books I brought with me, I acquired some new tomes, from the superb Black Gull Books. Yesterday I bought a French language work on Picasso. And today, having intended to buy more Picasso, I instead bought the Taschen <em>Funk &amp; Soul <\/em>album covers book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_8663-1-775x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_8663-1-775x1024.png 775w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_8663-1-227x300.png 227w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_8663-1-768x1015.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_8663-1-1163x1536.png 1163w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_8663-1.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Re the latter, given how groovy some of these are, the choice for the front cover is &#8211; to my mind\/eyes &#8211; bizarrely rubbish!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finished reading James Holland\u2019s superb Sicily, \u201843. Later today I\u2019ll start volume three &#8211; The Price of Victory &#8211; of Rodger\u2019s British Naval History trilogy. But in addition to books I brought with me, I acquired some new tomes, from the superb Black Gull Books. Yesterday I bought a French language work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DAYS OUT: St Leonard\u2019s\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7gl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27927,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions\/27927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}