{"id":3655,"date":"2020-10-05T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2020-10-05T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:33:18","slug":"ride-my-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Ride My Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my comments on my bike tyre I have gone with the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>T. Rex<\/strong> <\/span>song for today. I did contemplate &#8220;The Wheels on the Bus&#8221; but that would be unkind on my bike <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Shadowfax!<\/strong> <\/span>The good news is my new tyres arrived and I have fitted a new one on the recalcitrant back wheel. Fingers crossed it will now be OK!<\/p>\n<p>Now news hot of the press -I will be on the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Luton Town<\/strong> <\/span>football shirt next season. Well you may need a microscope to spot me! It will actually be my name. I am not alone -I think there may be a thousand or so names on the shirt! It was all of us who forgo a refund on our season tickets after crowds were unable to go to games at the end of last season because of the virus. Just hope I&#8217;m not under the arm pit!<\/p>\n<p>Talking of the misplaced priorities in football . I see <strong><em>Arsenal<\/em><\/strong> have just made their mascot and 55 other members of staff redundant while possibly about to spend 50 million on a new player!!!!! Sadly while local \u00a0teams like <em><strong>Macclesfield and Bury<\/strong> <\/em>go to the wall the Premier League lives in its fantasy monopoly money world!<\/p>\n<p>Finally had an unexpected visitor in the garden today. A lovely <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Goldcrest<\/strong><\/span>-delightful charismatic little birds. Many of these tiny birds fly across the North Sea to spend their Winters here. Slightly surreal at the moment as Winter Migrants arrive and I am still seeing Summer Migrants like House Martins and Swallows. Picture below Of a <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Goldcrest.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3657\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?fit=800%2C641&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,641\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"goldcrest151015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?fit=584%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3657\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?resize=584%2C468&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?resize=768%2C615&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/goldcrest151015.jpg?resize=374%2C300&amp;ssl=1 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my comments on my bike tyre I have gone with the T. Rex song for today. I did contemplate &#8220;The Wheels on the Bus&#8221; but that would be unkind on my bike Shadowfax! The good news is my new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3655","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\/p2D5Gc-WX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","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=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}