{"id":8155,"date":"2026-01-09T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:10:02","slug":"not-another-puncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8155","title":{"rendered":"Not Another Puncture!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not having much luck on the bike over the last 2 or 3 months with punctures. Got another one today as I was riding bike from Stroud-<\/strong> my back wheel hit a rock two miles from home. I limped home because was difficult to do anything about at the side of the road! Was hard work anyway with the wind and the cold!<\/p>\n

I am currently preparing materials and stories for a gig later in January- more details later.<\/p>\n

I told my shaggy dog story set in the river near Wick Court<\/strong> last night. I play with some historical facts connected to the Saxons<\/strong> and a myth to lead my audience on. The young people last night were fully engaged.<\/p>\n

Off to football tomorrow – sadly an early kick off!<\/p>\n

Finally what a joke English<\/strong> cricket is at the moment. Poor preparation and execution of skills! The structure is also a joke with that meaningless hundred in August doesn’t allow red ball cricket at all in that month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not having much luck on the bike over the last 2 or 3 months with punctures. Got another one today as I was riding bike from Stroud- my back wheel hit a rock two miles from home. I limped home … 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-8155","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-27x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}