Some pictures from last night’s entertainment at the Three Horseshoes, Frampton.
Dan Everett the other part of Two Severn Bores. Yours truly below the other half of Two Severn Bores wearing his new top hat!
Just back from telling my Harriet the Hippo story at North Nibley. Hope I may get a picture from it in the next few days. Do enjoy telling this story even if I forgot one or two of my alliterations within the story! I really must do something about getting this story published it has the potential to be a different sort of picture book!
If you want to join us tonight in the Three Horseshoes we start at 8. We have slots of performers young and o…..mature! I will certainly be wearing my new stylish top hat! Hopefully will have some pictures to share in the next couple of days!
Not a comment on the state of the country although it could of been or Shakespeare or my state of mind after a double footballing loss on Saturday. Thought I would use the Richard 111 quote for the wintry scenes of recent days. Pictures below is Frampton on Sunday Morning and the Fox mid morning today.
Finally I have a double Story Telling tomorrow. I am telling my Harriet the Hippo at a school tomorrow as a leaving present for the Head. I always enjoy telling this one and have a lot of fun with it.
In the evening my Book Club are doing our Christmas entertainment at the pub. (click on link below to see the poster)
After an incredibly mild November we certainly know we are in December now! I pedalled out this morning to drop off a birthday and was clad in balaclava, winter gloves, tights and overshoes etc. Roads were ok until I went down a side road and hit some ice so I was cautious on the last part!
Festive treat for me later I am out with my friends from Wick Court where I volunteer for our Christmas meal – my second one this week!
Looking forward to a sporting day tomorrow watching the England cricket and football teams on TV. More importantly my football team resume their season after our World Cup break so I will be listening tomorrow afternoon! Think my nerves will be frayed by the end!
Well I have moved quickly to get a new bike to replace Shadowfax and picked up for a bargain a new bike I have called Castor (after one of the shire horses in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising as it will be my work horse or work bike!) Picture tomorrow!
I was Story Telling tonight for Dursley W. I . I finished up telling my Christmas Angels story that I have become very fond of! I think I should get it published at some point. I wore my new top hat!
Old age has caught up with my beloved Shadowfax, my faithful workhorse who carries all my Story Telling props, birdwatching gear and shopping. When I called myself “The Story Traveller” I envisaged my bike carrying me and my props to my gigs, which Shadowfax has covered thousands of miles doing. Sadly the bike has now to go to the Great Bike Shed in the sky. I got the bike nearly 30 years ago when I moved to Dursley as a Headteacher and pedalled regularly to work on it. So it is a sad day- I now have to look for a replacement to do the job, my other bikes are not suitable. The picture above is Shadowfax and some handsome bloke on Clifton Suspension Bridge – I was cycling with my son David from Exeter (his home) to Frampton (my home) many years ago!
I am driving to my Gig tomorrow night for Dursley WI!!!!
What a brilliant result from Pakistan! This England cricket team are certainly entertaining!!! Full credit to Ben Stokes he has certainly surprised me with his captaincy! I was totally absorbed watching this morning and the way Test cricket builds just adds to the tension! Stokes and Brendan McCullum want to make Test Cricket entertaining and they are certainly doing that!
Went out on Starling watch tonight but hardly any appeared! Two hunting Marsh Harriers made the trip worthwhile!
After mentioning sport today and yesterday it presents us with a dilemma for our Book Club entertainment next Wednesday. I think if England win on Saturday we will have to rearrange it!
How good is it at last to be proud of an England Football Team? I have to say the work Gareth Southgate has done with the national team over the last few years has been impressive. Talking sport the last day of the in Pakistan tomorrow looks like it will be a tense affair, fingers crossed. Again the new management of the cricket team has encouraged players to blossom.
Sadly the Starlings last night was an anti-climax- they tended to come in small groups and dropped fairly quickly into the reed bed. I will try again this week.
You often read about people swimming with dolphins etc- well yesterday as I set off on my bike as dusk was approaching I had about 1,000 Starlings flying backwards and forwards above my head. I could hear both their chatter and their wing beats. A special moment. Aiming to go later tonight to watch them at Splatt Bridge – there have been reports of close on 20000 birds coming into roost. It is good to have such a wildlife spectacular on your doorstep.
The cricket has been a feast of runs- hope the pitches for the next Tests are not so dead!
Have managed to knuckle down on learning stories for next week for Dursley W.I. I find I need to go over each story at least half dozen times and at couple of times saying them out loud.
Don’t forget my Book Club are doing our traditional entertainment at The Three Horseshoes, Frampton starting at 8 pm on Wednesday 14th December- all welcome! I will be telling a story and wearing my new super top hat. Will try and get pictures for the blog.