{"id":7913,"date":"2025-08-07T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:03:46","slug":"berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of the year again when there is plenty of food for wildlife out in the fields and woods. I nearly commented after Thursday&#8217;s bird survey on how the bushes were laden with sloes. I took the picture below on Thursday of one bush- it doesn&#8217;t really do justice! I have now been blackberry twice (once a fortnight ago) so we are on our second <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>blackberry <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and<\/span><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong> apple<\/strong> <\/span><\/span>crumble &#8211; my favourite pudding! Great that it is our <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">apple<\/span><\/strong>s from the garden and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">blackberries<\/span><\/strong> from close by- so a cheap pudding!<\/p>\n<p>I have spent today writing a story for the next <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong> <\/span>show. Watch this space for details! Doing a local gig in <strong>Arlingham<\/strong> on Monday for young children. I then have a break for a couple of weeks from performing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P1040598-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7914\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7914\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P1040598-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1970&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1970\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1753906683&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1040598\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P1040598-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C449&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7914\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P1040598.jpg?resize=485%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of the year again when there is plenty of food for wildlife out in the fields and woods. I nearly commented after Thursday&#8217;s bird survey on how the bushes were laden with sloes. I took the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7913\">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-7913","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\/s2D5Gc-berries","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","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=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}