{"id":7380,"date":"2024-12-17T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:43:19","slug":"punctures-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7380","title":{"rendered":"Punctures and Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an exhausting time in <strong>Exeter<\/strong> with that bundle of energy our granddaughter Ellen. Today has been catching up but I had a lovely Christmas lunch at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> to thank us for efforts as volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Found I had a puncture on my workhorse of a bike which has thicker tyres so I had a real\u00a0 struggle putting the new inner tube in! I was glad it wasn&#8217;t by the side of the road that I had to repair it. It took me a while! I am hoping if it is ok to cycle on it to my story telling gig (a care home in <strong>Nailsworth<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The picture below should make you smile it is <strong>Robin<\/strong> my youngest grandson wearing his brother&#8217;s <strong>Fat Controller&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong> hat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eb5ac7a8-61c8-4bba-a80d-284abb837f6d.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7381\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eb5ac7a8-61c8-4bba-a80d-284abb837f6d.jpg?fit=1200%2C1599&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1599\" 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;1734193454&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=\"eb5ac7a8-61c8-4bba-a80d-284abb837f6d\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eb5ac7a8-61c8-4bba-a80d-284abb837f6d.jpg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7381\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eb5ac7a8-61c8-4bba-a80d-284abb837f6d.jpg?resize=423%2C557&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One piece of good news for us long suffering <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Hatters.<\/strong><\/span> The club have just got final planning approval for a new ground. It will be iconic also it will be in the centre of the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Town<\/strong> <\/span>unlike many new grounds and will incorporate a music venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an exhausting time in Exeter with that bundle of energy our granddaughter Ellen. Today has been catching up but I had a lovely Christmas lunch at Wick Court to thank us for efforts as volunteers. Found I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7380\">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-7380","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-1V2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380","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=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}