{"id":4956,"date":"2021-12-30T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2021-12-30T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:48:08","slug":"silly-old-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4956","title":{"rendered":"Silly Old Fool!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8a078151-74d5-4fcb-a392-1562c7da450b-1.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<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4957\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4957\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8a078151-74d5-4fcb-a392-1562c7da450b-1.jpg?fit=1512%2C2016&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1512,2016\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8a078151-74d5-4fcb-a392-1562c7da450b (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8a078151-74d5-4fcb-a392-1562c7da450b-1.jpg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4957\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8a078151-74d5-4fcb-a392-1562c7da450b-1.jpg?resize=335%2C442&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fine looking model above is sporting his Christmas presents from his eldest son. A wonderful crotchet helmet (it is like what\u00a0 a medieval knight wore with a movable visor-you can&#8217;t really make out the crest on the top from this photo- perhaps I will take another one in the future and put it into the blog ) and a <strong>Napoleonic<\/strong> top both will be used for future Story Telling Gigs!<\/p>\n<p>It has been a delightful few days enjoying being with our family especially the two grandchildren. I have done much crawling across the floor and carrying children everywhere. One of many special moments with <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Owen<\/strong><\/span> (my one year old grandson) was sharing a lovely board book of six birds that played their calls). He did recognise the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Cuckoo<\/strong><\/span> later when I was reading <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Goodnight Owl<\/strong><\/span> later to him and we often watched the <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Woodpigeons<\/strong> <\/span>in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Finally got a real soaking this morning doing our monthly bird survey out by the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>River Severn.<\/strong><\/span> The birds evidently didn&#8217;t enjoy the weather although one highlight was a <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Woodcock<\/strong><\/span> flying over-it was the first one we have seen in nearly 10 years of doing surveys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\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 The fine looking model above is sporting his Christmas presents from his eldest son. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4956\">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-4956","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-1hW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","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=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}