{"id":7797,"date":"2025-05-30T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:56:35","slug":"birds-stories-bikes-and-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7797","title":{"rendered":"Birds, Stories, Bikes and Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title sums up my week so far. Yesterday was our monthly bird survey by the Severn.<\/strong><\/span> It was sadly underwhelming with few birds- the strong wind didn’t help – any self respecting bird was taking cover. The high tide wasn’t due till later so it was quiet out on the river.<\/p>\n

Had a wonderful cycle over the hills on Wednesday with plenty of climbing. Got to get those miles in the legs!<\/p>\n

I played cricket in a memorial match yesterday playing with plenty of people who I have either played against or with over the years. I am actually turning out for my club tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I have been revisiting my Harriet the Hippo<\/strong><\/span> with the idea I might try and get it published.\u00a0 It is one of my favourite stories to tell. Story Telling next week again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title sums up my week so far. Yesterday was our monthly bird survey by the Severn. It was sadly underwhelming with few birds- the strong wind didn’t help – any self respecting bird was taking cover. The high tide … Continue reading →<\/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-7797","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-21L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","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=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}