{"id":3793,"date":"2020-11-12T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2020-11-12T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T20:29:04","slug":"from-little-acorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3793","title":{"rendered":"From Little Acorns&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s title came from the inspiration of seeing many majestic Oak Trees today. Clare and I cycled South along <strong><em>Sustrans Route 41<\/em> <\/strong>and the many subtle coloured Autumn Oaks looked absolutely stunning in the sunshine. I think they are my favourite trees!<\/p>\n<p>I am now actively contacting schools offering them <em><strong>V<\/strong><strong>irtual Christmas<\/strong> <\/em>Story Telling for free! Get in touch if you want a Christmas Telling-can be anywhere because there is no travel involved!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s answers on birds<\/p>\n<p>a).<strong>The Wandering Albatross<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 b)<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong> Kiwi*<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 c) <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Dunnock\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> d) <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Avocet<\/strong><\/span> e) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Bee Hummingbird<\/strong> <\/span>(only found in Cuba)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The Kiwi<\/strong> <\/span>is the only one of the above I haven&#8217;t seen in the wild-have heard them in the wild at night and I saw one in a wildlife centre.<\/li>\n<li>The Albatross picture below isn&#8217;t a Wandering but just an excuse for me to put into the blog one of my thousands of Albatross pictures!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Quiz<\/strong> is obviously on <strong>Oak<\/strong> trees! I once read that <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>270<\/strong><\/span> species are associated with an Oak Tree (I won&#8217;t ask you to name them!!!)<\/p>\n<p>a) Where will you find <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>The Major Oak<\/strong> <\/span>possibly the most famous tree in the UK? How <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>old<\/strong><\/span> is it thought to be? (will give you some leeway!)\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tannin<\/strong><\/span> in Oak trees\u00a0\u00a0was traditionally used for what purpose?\u00a0\u00a0 c) What group of people who gave the<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong> Romans<\/strong> <\/span>a hard time practised rituals in Oak groves?\u00a0 d) Oak stands as the symbol for what <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Wedding Anniversary<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 e) Which <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>English County<\/strong> <\/span>has the Oak on it&#8217;s flag?\u00a0 f) What is Dendrochronology (about trees not just Oak)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1698-1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3795\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3795\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1698-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1267&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 450D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1361845008&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1698\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1698-1-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3795\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1698-1.jpg?resize=503%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s title came from the inspiration of seeing many majestic Oak Trees today. Clare and I cycled South along Sustrans Route 41 and the many subtle coloured Autumn Oaks looked absolutely stunning in the sunshine. 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