{"id":4830,"date":"2021-10-31T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2021-10-31T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:54:49","slug":"halloween-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely time at <strong>Kingshill House<\/strong> on Wednesday. I had a mixed age audience so had to be careful I wasn&#8217;t that frightening but still appeal to the older children. Humour and some audience participation was the way I went. It did work!<\/p>\n<p>It was certainly a horror show watching my beloved <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Hatters<\/span> <\/strong>yesterday. Second best all over the field- we did seem really sluggish. Hope we get our game back for the two matches this week.<\/p>\n<p>I promised a few photos form our birding at <strong>Leighton Moss.<\/strong> A marvellous <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Nuthatch<\/strong><\/span> who posed for several photos. Also included is a <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/span> and Black-tailed Godwits (one shot is my arty shot of the birds in flight some people\u00a0 might think it is just a blurry photo!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P1020444-scaled.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<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4831\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P1020444-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1917&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1917\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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I had a mixed age audience so had to be careful I wasn&#8217;t that frightening but still appeal to the older children. 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