{"id":3209,"date":"2020-05-01T16:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:15:05","slug":"hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Hail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s weather update-we looked at the forecast and it looked a dry day. So we cycled to Stroud to visit the wonderful cheese stall (still open). Just imagine the language when a hail storm hit us on the way back! Thank goodness it only lasted ten minutes!<\/p>\n

No new migrants sighted here but yesterday we had a resplendent Greenfinch in our back garden (I haven’t seen one in the garden for a while). The Great Spotted Woodpecker has also been around the garden quite a bit so I am hopeful there is a nest nearby.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned the weather all the decent weather we had in April would of been great for cricket. Picture below is of some old bloke who should have a straighter \u00a0bat! Unlikely if I will be playing any cricket this year!<\/p>\n

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Yesterday’s Disguise Quiz answers<\/p>\n

a) The Greek hero who was dressed as a woman was of course Achilles<\/span> <\/strong>his mother knew the prophesy of his demise. If anyone wants a good read “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller I would recommend highly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) Toad<\/span><\/strong> from Wind in the Willows dressed up as a washer woman.\u00a0 c) Sir Percy Blakeney was the Scarlet Pimpernel<\/span> <\/strong>(novel by Baroness Orczy)\u00a0\u00a0 d) Sydney Carton took the place of Charles Darnley<\/span> <\/strong>in tale of Two Cities\u00a0 e) Clark Kent<\/span> <\/strong>is Superman<\/p>\n

Today’s Quiz (weather is today’s theme)<\/p>\n

a) What does anemometer<\/strong> <\/em>measure?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) A Chinook<\/strong><\/em> is a wind that is particularly associated with which Mountain Range?\u00a0 c) Who was the Norse God of Thunder<\/strong><\/em>?\u00a0 d) Dorothy in the wizard of Oz was taken to Oz by a tornado from her home, where was her home<\/strong><\/em>?\u00a0 e) What is the driest desert<\/strong> <\/em>in the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s weather update-we looked at the forecast and it looked a dry day. So we cycled to Stroud to visit the wonderful cheese stall (still open). Just imagine the language when a hail storm hit us on the way back! … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2D5Gc-hail","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}