{"id":6977,"date":"2024-06-12T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:50:32","slug":"wow-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6977","title":{"rendered":"Wow!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/5545cbe3-6786-4bbe-8aa2-f0175b58f4a5.jpeg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6978\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6978\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/5545cbe3-6786-4bbe-8aa2-f0175b58f4a5.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1600\" 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;1718137935&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=\"5545cbe3-6786-4bbe-8aa2-f0175b58f4a5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/5545cbe3-6786-4bbe-8aa2-f0175b58f4a5.jpeg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6978\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/5545cbe3-6786-4bbe-8aa2-f0175b58f4a5.jpeg?resize=440%2C579&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"579\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes the figure hunched over his bat is me!!!! I know the stance isn&#8217;t great! Yesterday all our four <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Gloucestershire Over 60s<\/strong> <\/span>teams won their games! In three of them 100s were scored- I wasn&#8217;t one of them!!! However, I managed my troops to what turned out to be a comfortable victory over <strong>Warwickshire<\/strong> and was chuffed with my fielding (several diving stops and a catch).<\/p>\n<p>Delighted with the birds in our garden at the moment with so many young birds around. We are getting around 15 different species a week turning up that land somewhere, so I can&#8217;t count the <em><strong>swallows<\/strong><\/em> and <strong><em>martins<\/em><\/strong> over. We are also hearing <strong><em>oystercatcher, tern<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>cuckoo<\/em><\/strong> frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Off to bird watch with young people at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> later and have our <strong>Book Club BBQ<\/strong> tonight &#8211; we are discussing <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>Small Things Like These<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; a provocative and beautifully written book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Yes the figure hunched over his bat is me!!!! I know the stance isn&#8217;t great! Yesterday all our four Gloucestershire Over 60s teams won their games! In three of them 100s were scored- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6977\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","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-1Ox","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","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=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6980,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}