{"id":8558,"date":"2026-09-06T17:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:39:51","slug":"where-do-i-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8558","title":{"rendered":"Where Do I Start???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been an action packed few days! We had a couple of days of looking after our Grandchildren .gave us<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night we went to <strong>Bristol Beacon<\/strong> to see <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Spell Songs<\/strong><\/span>&#8211; 7 talented musicians and the artist <strong>Jackie Morris.<\/strong> These musicians came together 7 or 8 years ago to put to music <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>&#8220;Lost Words&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>the lovely acclaimed book by writer <strong>Robert Macfarlane<\/strong> and <strong>Jackie Morris.<\/strong> They now have released a third album<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong> In Thin Air<\/strong><\/span> inspired by the new book <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Book of Birds<\/strong> <\/span>by <strong>Macfarlane<\/strong> and <strong>Morris.<\/strong> So the evening featured the new album in the first half and old favourites in the second half. It was a fantastic evening the music outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing quite a bit of travelling recently and I drove to <strong>Hertfordshire<\/strong> to play cricket on Thursday. My last game of the year! We were chuffed to chase down 250 to win. It was late when I got home!<\/p>\n<p>I will save my epic journey yesterday for my next blog!<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link for the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong><\/span> gig on the 28th November- hope you can make it!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.utea.org.uk\/event-details\/two-severn-bores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been an action packed few days! We had a couple of days of looking after our Grandchildren .gave us On Wednesday night we went to Bristol Beacon to see Spell Songs&#8211; 7 talented musicians and the artist Jackie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8558\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8558","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-2e2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","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=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}