{"id":12859,"date":"2022-03-04T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T08:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:11:08","slug":"hammered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/hammered\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/hammered\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Not great news this morning, unfortunately. Having packed the car yesterday ready for Hammerhead, I felt increasingly rough overnight. I&#8217;ve just taken a COVID test and, as I feared, it&#8217;s positive \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>So obviously we won&#8217;t be able to make the show tomorrow, which is absolutely gutting, given how long we&#8217;ve been on the reserve list.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be in touch with anyone that placed an order for collection and and arrange to post it to you, but we may not be able to do that straightaway since I&#8217;m going to have to isolate for at least five days. There&#8217;s also going to be a knock on effect to mail orders, I have a bag full ready to send but can&#8217;t go to the post office.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/hammered\/img_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,377\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220304_073823_008_copy_800x377-768x362.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not great news this morning, unfortunately. Having packed the car yesterday ready for Hammerhead, I felt increasingly rough overnight. I&#8217;ve just taken a COVID test and, as I feared, it&#8217;s positive \ud83d\ude41 So obviously we won&#8217;t be able to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/hammered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"We all know what these two red lines mean - so unfortunately we will not be able to go to Hammerhead tomorrow. 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