{"id":3028,"date":"2020-04-01T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:36:52","slug":"rocking-all-over-the-ironing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"Rocking All Over the Ironing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always looking for ideas for blog questions; I do \u00a0hope you all appreciate the wide breadth of questions -thanks for the many comments you have emailed me.\u00a0\u00a0So people do read it!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s title acknowledges \u00a0where the idea for the questions came from-<strong>yes<\/strong> doing the ironing! In the past I have often done the ironing when cricket is on because you can watch each ball and then iron while the bowler goes back to his mark. No sport, so a change of approach!\u00a0 Today I was rocking away while ironing (I apologise if that image is giving anyone nightmares!) The first question is from one of the songs I was semi dancing\/ironing \u00a0to today! I apologise to any teachers past or present for the third quote!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s answers first on animal homes- <em><strong>Otter-Holt\u00a0\u00a0 Eagle-Eyrie\u00a0 Hare-Form Squirrel-Drey Crocodile-Nest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guess the song and the artist\/s-those of a certain generation should find them easy- I may do songs\/ballads for future blog questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">There&#8217;s so many different worlds&#8230;&#8230;.. so many different suns\u00a0 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..And we have just one world&#8230;&#8230;..but we live in different ones&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;We learned more from a three minute record than we have learned in school&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">&#8220;Then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you to run to run you missed the starting gun&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;&#8230;&#8230;..There&#8217;s a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye&#8230;&#8230;.and a blade shining oh so bright&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally a picture from the time when football was in black and white before the Premier League! I wondered whatever happened to him?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1579-rotated.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3029\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3029\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1579-rotated.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585759886&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1579\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1579-rotated.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3029\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1579-rotated.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1579-rotated.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1579-rotated.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always looking for ideas for blog questions; I do \u00a0hope you all appreciate the wide breadth of questions -thanks for the many comments you have emailed me.\u00a0\u00a0So people do read it! 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