{"id":8072,"date":"2025-11-21T11:53:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:53:53","slug":"two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8072","title":{"rendered":"Two Days??????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to the <strong>Test Match Down Under.<\/strong> What an amazing day (well night for us)! 19 wickets in a day- will it last much more than two days. I couldn&#8217;t believe the score when I woke up- I managed to watch most of the <strong>Australian<\/strong> innings &#8211; great bowling from <strong>England&#8217;s<\/strong> pace attack.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask where has <strong>Bill<\/strong> been? Well it has been action packed! I cycled to <strong>Gloucester<\/strong> on Tuesday morning to do another <strong>Winter Bird Square.<\/strong> Saw well over thirty\u00a0 <strong>Long-tailed Tits<\/strong> (picture below not mine), sadly part of the square was limited because of flooding but I managed to see 19 species.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was my regular bird watching session with young people from <strong>Gosport<\/strong> at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong> One group were delighted to see two <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Curlews<\/strong> <\/span>flying over (don&#8217;t see that many on this side of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Severn&#8217;s Horseshoe Bend.<\/strong> <\/span>I was story telling for them last night- I told a <strong>Russian Folk Tale<\/strong> (a trick story) which went down well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8073\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?fit=1150%2C711&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1150,711\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Tony Davison&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1425203665&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Long Tailed Tit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?fit=584%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8073\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?resize=475%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to the Test Match Down Under. What an amazing day (well night for us)! 19 wickets in a day- will it last much more than two days. I couldn&#8217;t believe the score when I woke up- I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8072\">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-8072","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-26c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","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=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}