{"id":3776,"date":"2013-10-30T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T08:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:33:46","slug":"twes-18-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"TWES 18 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pepper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3790\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pepper.jpg\" alt=\"pepper\" width=\"444\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pepper.jpg 444w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pepper-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>528 years ago King Henry VII of England was crowned. He had just one wife, the rather well connected Elizabeth of York. Oct 30 was also auspicious for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helena,_Montana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helena of Montana<\/a> in 1864; John Logie Baird, who created Britain&#8217;s first television transmitter in 1925; Orson Welles, known for having no wine before its time and for broadcasting the Martian invasion in 1938<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/martians.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3784\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/martians.jpg\" alt=\"martians\" width=\"300\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/martians.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/martians-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and birthday girl\/actor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/random\/random5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juliet Stevenson<\/a>, who I first saw weeping copiously in <i>Truly, Madly, Deeply<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 my wife and I arrived in England thanks to her Training and Work Experience visa [TWES], good for a year. It was extended for another. We managed to parlay that into a more useful\u00a0piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/certificate.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3786\" src=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/certificate.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently this weekend we&#8217;re celebrating by buying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notanothercyclingforum.net\/index.php?topic=384.msg10095#msg10095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new refrigerator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/royalfridge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/royalfridge.jpg\" alt=\"royalfridge\" width=\"199\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/royalfridge.jpg 199w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/royalfridge-157x300.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>528 years ago King Henry VII of England was crowned. He had just one wife, the rather well connected Elizabeth of York. Oct 30 was also auspicious for Helena of Montana in 1864; John Logie Baird, who created Britain&#8217;s first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12911,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}