{"id":5820,"date":"2023-02-03T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2023-02-03T17:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:35:56","slug":"small-beacon-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5820","title":{"rendered":"Small Beacon of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That sounds a rather enigmatic title! I am referring\u00a0 to the that small signal that Spring is around the corner the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Snowdrop.<\/span><\/strong> I have seen plenty of clumps this week in different places and they do make you smile. Today on my ride I was disappointed to see a mass of litter sprawled under a hedge and then as turned the corner there was a mini-carpet of <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Snowdrops<\/span><\/strong> to cheer me up. (the picture below is not mine!)<\/p>\n<p>Had a lovely time with <strong>St. Philomena&#8217;s School<\/strong> this week at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong> A great day bird watching with them and a delightful Story Telling with them last night. I wish I could have an audience like that all the time!<\/p>\n<p>I met up with Dan (the musical half of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong><\/span>) to plan our next show. Some great ideas emerged and we now need to start developing them fully.<\/p>\n<p>Have to mention the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Mighty Hatters<\/span><\/strong> moving up to 4th in the Championship- fingers crossed for tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Snowdrops-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\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=\"5821\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5821\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Snowdrops-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1836&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1836\" 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;2012 Getty Images&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=\"Snowdrops\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Snowdrops-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5821\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Snowdrops.jpg?resize=397%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That sounds a rather enigmatic title! I am referring\u00a0 to the that small signal that Spring is around the corner the Snowdrop. I have seen plenty of clumps this week in different places and they do make you smile. Today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5820\">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-5820","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-1vS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","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=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}