{"id":4202,"date":"2021-02-23T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:22:02","slug":"sparkling-cedric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling Cedric!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the\u00a0 jobs I try and avoid is washing our wonderful campervan\u00a0 Cedric. Sadly because it stands outside all year a layer of green grime\u00a0 builds up. I hate the job because it involves climbing up on a step ladder many times to scrub the roof. It is hard work getting rid of that grime. There is also a lot of walking backwards and forwards with buckets of water. I always manage to soak myself and because of the angles I get water running down my arms! Still he looks wonderful the orange and white sparkling (well it would sparkle if the sun came out!) Cedric is named after the dragon that lives in our loft which we try to keep secret because you know what is likely to happen if it gets out into the world that we have a dragon living in our loft! So please don&#8217;t report us! The picture below is Cedric away in Dorset (a couple of years ago) with some old bloke!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\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=\"4205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4205\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0095\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?fit=584%2C329&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4205\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0095.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before my cleaning exercise I recorded a Japanese Folk Tale for a school. Tried a different location in the house today! I am gradually improving my techniques for these recordings! I actually enjoyed the process but I look forward to doing a live gig with a proper audience!<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping my football team remember to turn up later tonight -fingers crossed!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz Answers on Schools<\/p>\n<p>a) <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Miss Trunchball<\/span> <\/strong>is the Head of Crunchem Hall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The History Boys<\/strong> <\/span>by Alan Bennett was the play\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c) O Levels were last<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong> awarded in 1987\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>d) Dotheboys Hall is in <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Nicholas Nickleby<\/strong> <\/span>and features of course the infamous <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Wackford Squeers\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>( did I base by teaching career on him and \u00a0Miss Trunchball?)\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>To Sir With Love<\/strong> <\/span>was the film starring Sidney Poitier.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <em><strong>cars!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) In which decade did Britain introduce the<span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong> compulsory driving test<\/strong> <\/span>(extra point if you get the year)?\u00a0 b) Who designed the <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>original Mini?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 c) Where will you see <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Spirit of Ecstasy?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 d) Which model of car was called <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Tin Lizzie<\/strong> <\/span>in the early part of the 20th century?\u00a0 e) An observation question was is the<strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\"> make of Cedric?<\/span><\/strong> ( the company will do)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the\u00a0 jobs I try and avoid is washing our wonderful campervan\u00a0 Cedric. Sadly because it stands outside all year a layer of green grime\u00a0 builds up. I hate the job because it involves climbing up on a step &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4202\">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-4202","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-15M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}