{"id":3883,"date":"2020-11-28T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2020-11-28T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T20:39:05","slug":"embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3883","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassment!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No I haven&#8217;t done anything unprofessional or gone to the shops in my nightwear at least I don&#8217;t think so. It was watching my football team this afternoon, I think they forgot to get off the bus! They gave two goals away in the first ten minutes all gift wrapped and carried on in than generous vein for the rest of the game. It is lucky there is no proverbial cat around at the moment!<\/p>\n<p>One good thing to report our first <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Blackcap<\/strong><\/span> of the winter appeared today in the garden it was a male-hopefully will be around to be photographed in the coming days. We rarely see them in the garden in the summer but I see plenty around locally then but we always get a male and female during the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Answers on <strong>Fog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>John Carpenter<\/strong> <\/span>directed the film The Fog\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Sandberg<\/strong><\/span> wrote the poem\u00a0 c) The Great Smog of December 52 killed <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>12,000 people in London<\/strong><\/span>. d)\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Lindisfarne<\/strong> <\/span>sang Fog on the Tyne e) It was written by band member <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Alan Hull<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz I thought should be on losses following my comments on the football.<\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>The Spanish Armada<\/strong> <\/span>was a famous loss how many ships out of the 130 that sailed did they lose?\u00a0\u00a0 b) The 1945 General Election was a famous victory for Clement Attlee how many seats did <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Winston Churchill lose<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 c) Who was <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>&#8220;The Wally with the Brolly&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>after a famous England football defeat?\u00a0 d) Where did <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>General Custer<\/strong> <\/span>suffer his last stand in 1876?\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Lord Cardigan<\/strong> <\/span>led his men to what catastrophic defeat?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No I haven&#8217;t done anything unprofessional or gone to the shops in my nightwear at least I don&#8217;t think so. It was watching my football team this afternoon, I think they forgot to get off the bus! 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