{"id":8345,"date":"2026-04-25T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:47:24","slug":"bluebells-black-terns-focus-and-the-mad-hatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"Bluebells, Black Terns, Focus and the Mad Hatters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great couple of days for me.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we went for a walk on Cam Peak<\/strong> to see the bluebells- always unusual because they aren’t in woodland. Some pictures below.<\/p>\n

I followed this up by searching for Black Terns<\/strong> up at the sailing lake here in Frampton.<\/strong> These birds are rare visitors as they pass through. I saw three of them- a grainy picture below!<\/p>\n

We then went to watch the ancient prog rockers Focus<\/strong> <\/span>playing in Stroud.<\/strong> I saw them over 50 years ago when I was at college. They are fine musicians and it took me back in time! To quote Lou Reed<\/strong> just about ” A Perfect Day”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I went to watch the Mad Hatters<\/strong><\/span> today who managed to scrape home and still keep our faint Play Off hopes alive. We have been on a super run but possibly too late.<\/p>\n

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A great couple of days for me. Yesterday we went for a walk on Cam Peak to see the bluebells- always unusual because they aren’t in woodland. Some pictures below. I followed this up by searching for Black Terns up … 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-8345","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-2aB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","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=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}