{"id":8613,"date":"2026-10-16T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:52:30","slug":"a-wonder-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8613","title":{"rendered":"A Wonder of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been fortunate to have seen T<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>he Severn Bore<\/strong> <\/span>for a second successive week with young people at Wick Court while sitting in our bird hide. Although they were only small bores nevertheless it does engender a sense of awe and wonder! It did provoke a flurry of questions! This week the young people saw two different species of <strong>Wagtail<\/strong> (<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Pied<\/strong><\/span> and <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Grey)<\/span><\/strong>. A picture of both species below (not mine).<\/p>\n<p>I went last night to <strong>Cheltenham<\/strong> to see two storytellers telling tales from <strong>Japan.<\/strong> Really impressive performance their timing was excellent. (I&#8217;m always looking for ideas to improve my performances.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally talking about performance don&#8217;t forget <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Two Severn Bores<\/strong> <\/span>are at <strong>Under the Edge Arts Centre Wotton<\/strong> on Saturday 28th November. Tickets are now on sale and we do want a crowd!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8614\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8614\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?fit=2000%2C1339&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1339\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grey wagtail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?fit=584%2C391&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?resize=554%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pied-wagtail-3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8615\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8615\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pied-wagtail-3.jpg?fit=368%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"368,299\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pied-wagtail-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pied-wagtail-3.jpg?fit=368%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8615\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pied-wagtail-3.jpg?resize=584%2C478&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been fortunate to have seen The Severn Bore for a second successive week with young people at Wick Court while sitting in our bird hide. Although they were only small bores nevertheless it does engender a sense of awe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8613\">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-8613","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-2eV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613","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=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8616,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}