{"id":5599,"date":"2022-10-30T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2022-10-30T20:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T20:16:26","slug":"catch-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5599","title":{"rendered":"Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many apologies that I haven&#8217;t written a blog for a few days but much has happened.<\/p>\n<p>Delightful day with young people bird watching on Wednesday at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also did our monthly bird survey out by the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Severn<\/strong><\/span> on Thursday morning for Frampton Estate. Plenty to see including 1500 Starlings flying out of the reed bed- should be some good <strong>murmurations<\/strong> during the next month.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s Gig went well although numbers were sparse! I think publicity needs to improve for the event. Also did<\/p>\n<p>I had a special day Friday. It was my birthday and my <strong>Grandson Owen<\/strong> came to play &#8211; well we went to <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Slimbridge.<\/strong><\/span> Picture below of us playing stomping along the path! He was fascinated again by the <strong>Otter<\/strong> that he had super views of.<\/p>\n<p>I also told stories at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> on Friday morning (the school this week were from <strong>Syston<\/strong> they are old friends and they know me well as I have visited their school many times to tell stories.)<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyable game of football yesterday which ended in a draw which I think was a fair result. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>The Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> just need to start winning these home games!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PHOTO-2022-10-28-17-31-21.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=\"5600\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5600\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PHOTO-2022-10-28-17-31-21.jpg?fit=557%2C841&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"557,841\" 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;1667160427&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=\"PHOTO-2022-10-28-17-31-21\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PHOTO-2022-10-28-17-31-21.jpg?fit=557%2C841&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PHOTO-2022-10-28-17-31-21.jpg?resize=345%2C514&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure who was having the most fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many apologies that I haven&#8217;t written a blog for a few days but much has happened. Delightful day with young people bird watching on Wednesday at Wick Court. Also did our monthly bird survey out by the Severn on Thursday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5599\">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-5599","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-1sj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}