{"id":7871,"date":"2025-07-17T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:23:42","slug":"a-busy-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7871","title":{"rendered":"A Busy Week!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You dear reader are probably wondering where I have been this week! It has been pretty full on! Totally absorbed by the Test Match- what a finish!<\/p>\n<p>I spent Monday night rehearsing with <strong>Dan<\/strong> the other half of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong><\/span>. It had been a while and we were fairly rusty!<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday saw me take over the captaincy (temporary) of <strong>Gloucestershire<\/strong> 60s 3rd team away to <strong>Somerset<\/strong> facing a dodgy weather forecast. I managed to win the toss which didn&#8217;t happen very often last season. A dramatic first over saw me throw down the stumps from cover to run out the opening batsman. I would of been proud of that moment in my prime! Sadly the game predictably was ruined by the weather and had to be abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong><\/span> performed in <strong>Upton St. Leonards<\/strong>. It went well and we both asked about doing some individual gigs with other groups.<\/p>\n<p>Today has been stories, stories and stories! I cycled in to <strong>Stonehouse<\/strong> for a whole day storytelling at <strong>Park School<\/strong>. Good to meet an old colleague who I hadn&#8217;t seen for nearly 30 years! Stories went really well but it is hard work sustaining the energy levels.\u00a0 I then went to Wick Court for my normal storytelling session this time with Years 7-10 from Sunderland. Really pleased how well it went despite me being a little apprehensive beforehand. Now I am exhausted sitting watching the football with a beer,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You dear reader are probably wondering where I have been this week! It has been pretty full on! Totally absorbed by the Test Match- what a finish! I spent Monday night rehearsing with Dan the other half of the Two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7871\">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-7871","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-22X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","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=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7872,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}