{"id":5045,"date":"2022-02-10T20:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2022-02-10T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:48:41","slug":"mixed-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for a missing a couple days on the blog front!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we said Goodbye to one of our oldest friends <strong>Dorothy.<\/strong> She was a special person, a talented teacher and Headteacher but more importantly a wonderful optimistic\u00a0 human being. I learnt much from her especially on dealing with others which she always did positively.\u00a0 It was a very emotional day.<\/p>\n<p>Two special moments today to cheer us up. We had a <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Goldcrest<\/strong><\/span>; a lovely small bird being busy in a <strong>Rosemary Bush<\/strong> outside our kitchen window (picture of one below not mine). We saw one frequently in the Autumn but the first one this year! Later Clare and I were out cycling and unexpectedly got close to two <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Brown Hares<\/strong><\/span>, one shot across the road in front of us. (a pity I didn&#8217;t have a camera handy as it was so close. (so not my picture below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Goldcrest.jpg?ssl=1\">\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=\"5046\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5046\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Goldcrest.jpg?fit=1800%2C1350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1350\" 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=\"Goldcrest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Goldcrest.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5046\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Goldcrest.jpg?resize=337%2C256&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did watch my football team on Tuesday night. Not a great game and the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> scrapped a win. I have a logistical nightmare coming up in March with the FA Cup tie against <strong>Chelsea<\/strong> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>World Book Day<\/strong><\/span> the following day where I am telling stories in <strong>Leicestershire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hare-.jpg?ssl=1\">\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=\"5047\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5047\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hare-.jpg?fit=630%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D7000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1339343759&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;340&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hare-\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hare-.jpg?fit=584%2C501&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5047\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hare-.jpg?resize=425%2C366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hare-.jpg?resize=300%2C257&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hare-.jpg?resize=350%2C300&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for a missing a couple days on the blog front! Yesterday we said Goodbye to one of our oldest friends Dorothy. She was a special person, a talented teacher and Headteacher but more importantly a wonderful optimistic\u00a0 human being. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5045\">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-5045","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-1jn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","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=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}