{"id":7446,"date":"2025-01-24T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2025-01-24T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:02:53","slug":"gulls-cricket-footie-stories-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7446","title":{"rendered":"Gulls, Cricket, Footie, Stories and Stuff!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who read this blog regularly (there are a few of you out there) will have noticed I haven&#8217;t written anything recently-I am sorry but I have been on the go all week. Tuesday was ridiculous going from cricket net, to gull survey and onto football. Sadly the football despite being the better team saw us lose yet again! The gull survey\u00a0 was underwhelming\u00a0 not many going over our recording point! The cricket net was good and I was actually middling the ball!!! I was glad coming off my bike the day before didn&#8217;t hamper my cricket!<\/p>\n<p>Have been busy on preparing and researching for future gigs- have a few in the next six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was looking after my two grandsons for most of the day- <strong>Clare<\/strong> joined me in the afternoon and took over when I went to do storytelling at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong> I was very tired last night!<\/p>\n<p>Had a lovely walk this morning with my friend <strong>Moira<\/strong> round the village, she was thrilled when I pointed out a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>kingfisher<\/strong><\/span> flying low across the lake. (not my picture below!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kingfisher.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7447\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7447\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kingfisher.jpg?fit=270%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"270,180\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kingfisher\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kingfisher.jpg?fit=270%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7447\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kingfisher.jpg?resize=532%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who read this blog regularly (there are a few of you out there) will have noticed I haven&#8217;t written anything recently-I am sorry but I have been on the go all week. 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