{"id":4073,"date":"2021-01-16T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:27:31","slug":"daffs-before-snowdrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Daffs before Snowdrops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for no blog yesterday! Today&#8217;s title reflects I saw <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Daffodils<\/strong><\/span> today (a South facing border) but I haven&#8217;t noticed any <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>Snowdrops<\/strong><\/span> yet!<\/p>\n<p>We had enjoyable Book Club Zoom on Wednesday discussing Isherwood&#8217;s <em><strong>Goodbye to Berlin<\/strong><\/em>. I am always pleasantly surprised by the depth of our thoughts on a particular book. One of our group&#8217;s grandfather had been in Berlin at the same time as Isherwood!<\/p>\n<p>Have enjoyed the cricket -well done Joe Root and I have football to watch this afternoon. Apprehensive about this one!<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s Answers on <em><strong>TV<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Dad&#8217;s Army<\/strong> <\/span>of course was set in Walmington-on-Sea\u00a0\u00a0 b) the Prisoner was filmed in <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Portmeirion<\/strong> <\/span>in North Wales\u00a0 c)<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong> Kings Landing<\/strong> <\/span>was the capital of Westeros and filmed in Dubrovnik\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HMP Slade<\/strong> <\/span>was the prison in Porridge\u00a0 e) The Daleks come from <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Skaro.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <em><strong>Flowers!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Saffron<\/span> comes from what type of flower?\u00a0 b) Which flower is sometimes called the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>sword lily<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 c) What flower inspired <strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Wordsworth&#8217;s famous poem<\/span><\/strong>?\u00a0 d) What does the term<span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong> perennial<\/strong> <\/span>mean?\u00a0 e) What is the more common name for <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Helianthus?<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for no blog yesterday! Today&#8217;s title reflects I saw Daffodils today (a South facing border) but I haven&#8217;t noticed any Snowdrops yet! We had enjoyable Book Club Zoom on Wednesday discussing Isherwood&#8217;s Goodbye to Berlin. I am always pleasantly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4073\">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-4073","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-13H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","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=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}