{"id":7352,"date":"2020-03-23T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:23:41","slug":"last-tango-in-chiswick-well-last-volunteering-before-corona-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/23\/last-tango-in-chiswick-well-last-volunteering-before-corona-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Tango in Chiswick (well, last volunteering before Corona-virus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7353\" width=\"572\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><figcaption>Last Box of Stobs for path edges<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corona-virus is reaching every part of all our lives. Last week I made my final box of stobs like overgrown willow-pencils, along with a fine pile of woodchips, before Gunnersbury Triangle volunteering was shut down. It was a happy workday with relaxed chat about everything from knitting to frogspawn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I went for a solitary walk around, keeping a good 2 metres from passers-by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Chiffchaff sweetly sang its simple song (its name, many times over), hopping about the still mainly-bare Willows and Birches, and feeding on the newly-leafed bushes of rose and hawthorn. Early spring is the best time to glimpse our warblers, which are small, slim, greeny-brown and very difficult to spot when all the trees are in full leaf. This one gave me a front seat in the stalls, singing in full view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brilliant yellow Brimstone butterfly, my first of the year, fluttered about the brambles, reflecting the warm spring sunshine, its wings slightly pointed in the middle (in the manner of Elf-ears, if you take my meaning).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A gloriously orange Comma butterfly, also the first for this year, shot past me and then landed near my feet to take the sun, its markings wonderfully fresh.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the way home, my Dentist phoned to cancel the last remaining appointment in my diary. Let&#8217;s hope people will respect the rules so we can all continue to go out quietly and at least enjoy Nature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corona-virus is reaching every part of all our lives. Last week I made my final box of stobs like overgrown willow-pencils, along with a fine pile of woodchips, before Gunnersbury Triangle volunteering was shut down. It was a happy workday with relaxed chat about everything from knitting to frogspawn. Today I went for a solitary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/23\/last-tango-in-chiswick-well-last-volunteering-before-corona-virus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Tango in Chiswick (well, last volunteering before Corona-virus)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[76,59,77,1583,712,1581,1582,1584],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-brimstone","tag-chiffchaff","tag-comma","tag-corona-virus","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-spring","tag-stobs","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions\/7354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}