{"id":10394,"date":"2020-01-13T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2020-01-12T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T23:00:07","slug":"december-2019-my-london-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10394","title":{"rendered":"December 2019 My London Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December is always a fairly light month for protests, but I did even fewer than usual last month.  Partly this was because of the lousy weather &#8211; I don&#8217;t like working in the dark and in the rain and only cover those events that for some reason particularly interest me. Then there was an election, which I made a decision not to cover, and with a result that, though I wasn&#8217;t surprised, still left me seriously depressed for a few days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/07\/20191207-d0239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But there were good things too last month. I did enjoy Christmas, and a trip up to Matlock, and a fourth grandchild was born as the election results were being announced. And some protests, like the wedding of three men and a dog were fun to be at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>December 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/30\/20191230-d0248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#matlock\" target=\"_blank\">Matlock &amp; Matlock Bath<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#richmond\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon to Richmond walk<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#staines\" target=\"_blank\">Staines to Runnymede walk<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#migrants\" target=\"_blank\">40th UN International Migrants Day<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#earth\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Strike South London<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#sardines\">&#8216;6000 Sardines&#8217; London protest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/14\/20191214-d0092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#bmxlife\" target=\"_blank\">Santas BMX Life Charity Ride<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/08\/20191208-d0329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#bikes\" target=\"_blank\">Bikes against Bulldozers Heathrow lie-in<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#bumboys\" target=\"_blank\">Three Men and a Dog Wedding<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#dpac\" target=\"_blank\">DPAC &#8216;Bye Bye Boris&#8217; Uxbridge trial<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#buckingham\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\/NATO march to Buckingham Palace<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#trump\" target=\"_blank\">No to Trump, No to NATO rally<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/london\/20191218-d0318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/12\/dec.htm#london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">London Images<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center\">All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\" class=\"has-text-align-center\">There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, please <strong><em>share on social media<\/em><\/strong>. <br>And <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Rephoto\" target=\"_blank\">small donations via Paypal<\/a> &#8211; perhaps the cost of a beer &#8211; would be appreciated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December is always a fairly light month for protests, but I did even fewer than usual last month. Partly this was because of the lousy weather &#8211; I don&#8217;t like working in the dark and in the rain and only cover those events that for some reason particularly interest me. Then there was an election, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December 2019 My London Diary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1375,1374,1376,17,80,83,1373,253],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues","tag-1375","tag-december","tag-december-2019","tag-london","tag-my-london-diary","tag-peter-marshall","tag-pictures","tag-protests"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10395,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}