{"id":15859,"date":"2015-09-05T21:36:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/?p=15859"},"modified":"2015-09-05T21:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:36:36","slug":"a-grand-day-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/a-grand-day-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Day Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15865\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/a-grand-day-out\/2015-09-05-11-15-16\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1441451716&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00184501845018&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-09-05 11.15.16\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg?fit=940%2C705&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15865\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16-160x160.jpg?resize=160%2C160\" alt=\"2015-09-05 11.15.16\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.15.16.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>Apologies to everyone who turned up at the closed doors of Dock Cafe today (especially heartbreaking to see the dismayed faces of a Saturday morning cycling club who had obviously been pedalling in the belief that a Dock coffee awaited as their reward&#8230;) &#8211; but the Dock Volunteers had the BEST DAY!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/a-grand-day-out\/2015-09-05-11-59-19-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?fit=2772%2C1383&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2772,1383\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1441454359&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00116144018583&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-09-05 11.59.19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?fit=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?fit=940%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15866\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?resize=940%2C469\" alt=\"2015-09-05 11.59.19\" width=\"940\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?w=2772&amp;ssl=1 2772w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?resize=1024%2C511&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.59.191.jpg?w=1880&amp;ssl=1 1880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Stephen for organising our Volunteers Day of treats and fun&#8230; thanks to the wonderful Noel at the Tudor cinema in Comber (especially for the choc ices)&#8230; thanks to Peter Weir for making The Truman Show, our selected movie choice (top film!)&#8230; thanks to the Amazing Angie in the Green Deli for providing a feast fit for a king&#8230; and thanks, most of all to the Dock volunteers, whose unswerving, life-changing, self-sacrificing, hope-affirming shifts behind the counter of Dock Cafe provided the reason for this very small day of saying Thank-You.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"940\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.the-dock.org\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/a-grand-day-out\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:41078642}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 940px; height: 354px;\" data-original-width=\"940\" data-original-height=\"354\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 470px; 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tomorrow night (Sunday 6th) is our monthly Sunday Night At The Dock &#8211; our regular chance to say thanks, share tales, sip teas and sit together&#8230; \u00a0This week we&#8217;ll be hearing from Joachim about the story of Dock Market, and Clemence and Stephen about their summer of being Dock interns. \u00a06pm at Dock Cafe &#8211; Don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to everyone who turned up at the closed doors of Dock Cafe today (especially heartbreaking to see the dismayed faces of a Saturday morning cycling club who had obviously been pedalling in the belief that a Dock coffee awaited as their reward&#8230;) &#8211; but the Dock Volunteers had the BEST DAY! 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