{"id":6873,"date":"2024-05-04T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2024-05-04T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T19:43:22","slug":"hope-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"Hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to my feelings as a football fan. For my team the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong> <\/span>sadly doesn&#8217;t look so hopeful as I write. I thought we did enough to win last night and it was telling the return of one of injured stars scored a good goal and caused the<strong> Everton<\/strong> defence problems &#8211; just think where we might of been if he had made available more! Still I am off to <strong>West Ham<\/strong> next weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Lovely Spring day here and we had a lovely walk this morning. Saw a <strong>Great White Egret<\/strong> (the picture below is one I took before). They are not as common as <strong>Little Egrets<\/strong> but their population in the UK is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed Story Telling on Thursday night &#8211; I told the <strong><em>Running Companion<\/em><\/strong> (<strong>Philippa Pearce<\/strong> story) for the first time in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>We are excited to <strong>Cardiff<\/strong> tomorrow to see <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>&#8220;The Boss&#8221;(Bruce Springsteen)<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; he is a wonderful performer and it will be the third time we have seen him live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6874\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?fit=1324%2C1254&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1324,1254\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1618350683&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1010816\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?fit=584%2C553&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6874\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?resize=559%2C530&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?resize=300%2C284&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?resize=1024%2C970&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?resize=768%2C727&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?resize=317%2C300&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?w=1324&amp;ssl=1 1324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1010816.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to my feelings as a football fan. For my team the Mighty Hatters sadly doesn&#8217;t look so hopeful as I write. 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