{"id":3316,"date":"2020-05-24T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:00:14","slug":"river-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3316","title":{"rendered":"River Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had a Nick Drake song for the blog title before! We had a lovely walk by the River Severn today (we had to cycle there first). It was the area near Hock Cliff which holds fond memories of us taking our boys there when they were little to look for fossils. We met a family and they asked where to look for fossils-we pointed the way but I did warn the children there was a Tyrannosaurus around-the young boy looked worried so I had to let him know he ate a boy earlier and actually I was just being daft!\u00a0\u00a0I had hoped for some birds but the tide was right up-so there was mainly a vast expanse of water and hardly a bird in sight!<\/p>\n<p>I have managed to get some more done on my story-hopefully I will be able to let my critic read it later this week! I also heard some snippets of the Two Severn Bores podcast today-Dan has enhanced my stories with music in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz answers on sporting comebacks\u00a0 (no quiz today it is a Sunday!)<\/p>\n<p>a) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dennis Taylor<\/span> <\/strong>lost the first eight frames in that classic final before going on to win\u00a0\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Laxman 281 and Dravid 180<\/strong> <\/span>shared a stand of 376 to turn the Test Match around in 2001\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c) <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Charlton won 7-6<\/span><\/strong> after being 5-1 down against Huddersfield in 1957\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Stephen Roche<\/strong> <\/span>came back from looking being well beaten on the climb to only loose 5 seconds on the stage-he was in a state afterwards.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Leicester City<\/strong> <\/span>gave all football fans hope by winning the title in 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had a Nick Drake song for the blog title before! We had a lovely walk by the River Severn today (we had to cycle there first). 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