{"id":497,"date":"2017-03-11T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/?p=497"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:04:06","slug":"sometimes-the-tutus-go-away-for-their-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the tutus go away for their own good&#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Beyond the costume business I am an engineer. \u00a0My specialism is Alzheimer&#8217;s but my passion is Victorian steam. \u00a0Don&#8217;t get me started cause I won&#8217;t stop. \u00a0Thus this week anything pretty went away, well away, as coal dust when it&#8217;s fine gets everywhere, and it stains. \u00a0Why is this an issue this week? It&#8217;s my favourite week of the year, it&#8217;s BOILER CLEAN WEEK! \u00a0It&#8217;s crawl 60ft on your belly through inches of soot in total darkness to yell through the gloom for a torch, a hand brush and the end of a Hoover to clean back 90ft in cramped, wind blown conditions, all of the accumulated soot for a year. \u00a0Four showers later I might be clean again. \u00a0Horrible though it sounds I would not miss it for the world.<\/p>\n<p>So forgive the lack of pretties of late. I have been safely stashing them away, including this new stretch tutu i finally finished waiting for a new home. Love the two tone lace on this one!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-499\" src=\"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170303_180854-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20170303_180854\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170303_180854-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170303_180854-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the costume business I am an engineer. \u00a0My specialism is Alzheimer&#8217;s but my passion is Victorian steam. \u00a0Don&#8217;t get me started cause I won&#8217;t stop. \u00a0Thus this week anything pretty went away, well away, as coal dust when it&#8217;s fine gets everywhere, and it stains. \u00a0Why is this an issue this week? It&#8217;s my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalfacecostumes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}