{"id":5513,"date":"2022-09-08T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2022-09-08T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:23:41","slug":"what-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"What Drought?????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness we have had some real downpours today and thankfully our pond is filling up fast.<\/p>\n<p>Looking out of the window this afternoon we have had non stop action with at least 10 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Blue Tits,<\/strong> <\/span>4 <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Great Tits<\/strong><\/span> plus some <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Goldfinches<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>Chaffinches<\/strong><\/span> in a mixed flock. Also an active <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Chiffchaff<\/strong> <\/span>(picture below).<\/p>\n<p>We had a great planning session for our book club <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8220;Beer and Books&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>last night we have some really diverse books and activities planned for the next twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working on the story I am telling at the <strong>Great Barn Festival<\/strong> next weekend. Quite a bit of grafting needed over the next few days!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1030038-2-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5514\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5514\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1030038-2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1596&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1596\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1662606046&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1030038 (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1030038-2-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C364&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5514\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1030038-2.jpg?resize=503%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness we have had some real downpours today and thankfully our pond is filling up fast. Looking out of the window this afternoon we have had non stop action with at least 10 Blue Tits, 4 Great Tits plus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5513\">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-5513","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-1qV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","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=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}