{"id":6963,"date":"2024-06-05T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2024-06-05T20:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:24:53","slug":"ouch-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6963","title":{"rendered":"Ouch!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I led my intrepid team to Somerset yesterday to play what is usually a keenly contested cricket match- sadly this one wasn&#8217;t1 I won the toss and inserted them on a green pitch and then watched them amass over 300 runs- several dropped catches of the highest scoring batsmen didn&#8217;t help! We didn&#8217;t get anywhere near! Still I have Friday&#8217;s game against the <strong>Aussies<\/strong> to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>I returned to <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> today to take young people from <strong>Southwark<\/strong> bird watching. Nothing out of the ordinary but they were fascinated when I told them about <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>swifts<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 ( we saw a few) staying in the air for two or three years! I am Story Telling there tomorrow night and again at the open day on Sunday. <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> is a <strong>Farm for City Children<\/strong> and children spend a week on the farm- poster below and all are welcome!<\/p>\n<p>I am performing at another open day the following Saturday for <strong>GL11.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Open-Farm-Sunday-.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6964\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Open-Farm-Sunday-.jpg?fit=1587%2C2245&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1587,2245\" 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;&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=\"Open Farm Sunday\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Open-Farm-Sunday-.jpg?fit=584%2C826&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6964\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Open-Farm-Sunday-.jpg?resize=462%2C648&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I led my intrepid team to Somerset yesterday to play what is usually a keenly contested cricket match- sadly this one wasn&#8217;t1 I won the toss and inserted them on a green pitch and then watched them amass over 300 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6963\">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-6963","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-1Oj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","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=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}