{"id":8275,"date":"2026-03-12T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:47:13","slug":"a-host-of-golden-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8275","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Host of Golden Daffodils!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a super ride this morning over the tops with my friend <strong>Martin.<\/strong> It was great to ride in the\u00a0 sunshine and everywhere we were greeted by clumps of <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>dancing daffodils.<\/strong><\/span> These cheerful ambassadors of spring are good for the soul! Looking at the weather forecast for the end of he week it looks like we might have a blast of wintry weather!<\/p>\n<p>It is a busy period for me on the story telling front with some varied gigs this month. I am storytelling tomorrow for adults in <strong>Wotton<\/strong> and at a Care Home in <strong>Leonard Stanley<\/strong> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Finally on the sporting front the football has been disappointing but I now have a <strong>Wembley<\/strong> trip to look forward to. Talking of sport the picture below I was sent this week. It is me batting in the Hills away from <strong>Mumbai-<\/strong> not sure if it should be in the coaching manual!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bill-Batting.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8276\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8276\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bill-Batting.jpeg?fit=1970%2C1325&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1970,1325\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D500&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1770544348&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;300&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;140&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bill Batting\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bill-Batting.jpeg?fit=584%2C393&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8276\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bill-Batting.jpeg?resize=531%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a super ride this morning over the tops with my friend Martin. It was great to ride in the\u00a0 sunshine and everywhere we were greeted by clumps of dancing daffodils. These cheerful ambassadors of spring are good for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8275\">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-8275","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-29t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","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=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}