{"id":6093,"date":"2023-06-30T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:09:23","slug":"sport-stories-and-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6093","title":{"rendered":"Sport, Stories and Visitor!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depressing watching <strong>England<\/strong> being so careless in the Test Match. Hope we can get out of this one! Talking of cricket I am captaining a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Gloucestershire Seniors Team<\/strong><\/span> against an <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Australian<\/span><\/strong> team on Sunday- another international following <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wales<\/span> <\/strong>earlier in the week!<\/p>\n<p>My Story Telling with young people from Croydon was enjoyable last night. I am telling stories to adults tomorrow night at <strong>Eldersfield.<\/strong> Learning my stories tonight!<\/p>\n<p>It was an early start yesterday for the monthly bird survey by the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>River Severn<\/strong><\/span>. Nothing surprising but plenty of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Swallows<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>House Martins<\/strong><\/span> over the reed bed and 34 <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Avocets<\/strong><\/span> on the river. Finally pictures of a visitor on our feeders today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/woodpecker-2-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6094\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/woodpecker-2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2102&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2102\" 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;1688095067&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"woodpecker 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/woodpecker-2-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6094\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/woodpecker-2.jpg?resize=453%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wood-Pecker-1.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6095\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wood-Pecker-1.jpg?fit=2422%2C2010&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2422,2010\" 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;1688095057&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wood Pecker 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wood-Pecker-1.jpg?fit=584%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6095\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wood-Pecker-1.jpg?resize=411%2C344&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depressing watching England being so careless in the Test Match. Hope we can get out of this one! Talking of cricket I am captaining a Gloucestershire Seniors Team against an Australian team on Sunday- another international following Wales earlier in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6093\">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-6093","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-1Ah","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","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=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}