{"id":7906,"date":"2025-08-04T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:51:07","slug":"bills-blog-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7906","title":{"rendered":"Bill&#8217;s Blog is back!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many apologies for lack of a blog but it has been all go for the last few days. Thursday was our monthly bird survey out by the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>River Severn.<\/strong><\/span> We saw plenty of birds out on the mud of the low tide including a returning <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">whimbrel<\/span><\/strong> and <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>black tailed godwits.<\/strong> <\/span>Managed not to get wet as well! I did get wet going to <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> for my story telling session &#8211; it was with a youth group from <strong>Liverpool.<\/strong> The had visited the previous year and greeted me like a returning favourite old uncle!<\/p>\n<p>Of course on Thursday and Friday I was transfixed by the last Test Match of the summer- what a game and a series!<\/p>\n<p>We spent the weekend with our <strong>Exeter<\/strong> family and only got back tonight! A picture below of my granddaughter <strong>Ellen<\/strong> and I being flying <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>flamingos<\/strong> <\/span>on our way for our Sunday Dinner. She was wearing a<strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"> flamingo<\/span><\/strong> dress made by Clare and\u00a0 I was wearing a a polo shirt decorated by <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">flamingos.<\/span><\/strong> A delightful weekend!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7909\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7909\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b.jpg?fit=710%2C721&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"710,721\" 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;1754259963&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=\"f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b.jpg?fit=584%2C593&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7909\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b.jpg?resize=570%2C579&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b.jpg?resize=295%2C300&amp;ssl=1 295w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f70f605f-b14d-4828-9acf-aacbf2ede78b.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many apologies for lack of a blog but it has been all go for the last few days. 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