{"id":130,"date":"2016-09-05T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2016-09-05T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:44:52","slug":"meeting-constance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Constance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday morning it was wet.
\nPerth has been experiencing the coldest winter in 20 years and it is also very wet.
\nSo I didn\u2019t need to pack any sunscreen!
\nJust the same old winter stuff I\u2019ve been wearing for past months back home.
\nI went with Jesika to the Manning Farmers Market.
\n<\/a>The rain was heavy and then it would clear, and then down she\u2019d come again Trev!
\nIt was a lovely market, Jesika has her favourite vege and fruit stalls so we wandered between them and the others that I was interested in.
\nLike food and coffee and crafts etc.
\nThe crepe stall did really really good avocado wraps with spinach.
\nThe coffee cart next door looked better than it tasted :-\/
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On the way home I checked into Facebook, as you do.
\nAnd saw to my delight that Constance<\/a> was signing her books \u2018Like a Queen\u2019\u00a0<\/a>at Subiaco today!
\nJesika wasn\u2019t going to take me, no way, not ever \ud83d\ude09
\nAll good – she had a party to prepare for.
\nSo I called Sam, pretty sure she\u2019d be keen and yes she was.
\nSo we drove up to Subiaco and discovered Constance\u00a0is a one\u00a0very popular lady.
\nWe already knew that she has a world wide following on her blog ‘Queens of Constance’<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> but seeing so many local women queuing cemented that.
\nIn fact the line of women and the occasional husband\/partner & children went for miles up the stairs and though the hallways of the Subiaco Hotel.
\nSo long in fact that we were queuing for around 2 hours!
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\nWas it worth the wait.
\nYou bet it was!
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Loved this sculpture – I thought is was representing all the queens floating out of the hotel after having our books signed and our\u00a0few moments with Constance.
\nThe best thing along the way though was meeting and chatting with other women who were there from all walks, ages & stages of life.
\nHer blunt honest\u00a0way of communicating about the reality of life in the fast lane of motherhood has broken through so many barriers because we all identify with her in some way or other.
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Afterwards we were right hungry we were, so headed home asap, stopping at a supermarket along the way to find food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday morning it was wet. Perth has been experiencing the coldest winter in 20 years and it is also very wet. So I didn\u2019t need to pack any sunscreen! Just the same old winter stuff I\u2019ve been wearing for past months back home. I went with Jesika to the Manning Farmers Market. The rain was … Continue reading “Meeting Constance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,21,30,28,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}