{"id":56810,"date":"2022-12-05T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=56810"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:04:15","slug":"hunting-foxes-in-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/12\/hunting-foxes-in-wiltshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting trails in Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laycock that\u2019s near \u00a0Chippenham\u00a0where \u00a0thatched cottages<\/span><\/p>\n

tudor timbered<\/p>\n

black and white<\/p>\n

history revisited<\/p>\n

At Avon vale\u2019s delight<\/p>\n

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Boxing Day \u00a0it cometh<\/p>\n

the centre, \u00a0becomes<\/p>\n

a melee of huntsmen and horses<\/p>\n

and hounds<\/p>\n

of the day<\/p>\n

red coats and jodhpurs<\/p>\n

the hunts underway<\/p>\n

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the hunting sickness<\/p>\n

regurgitated<\/p>\n

the redundant empathy<\/p>\n

rehashed and so dated<\/p>\n

Real inequality<\/p>\n

discordant and clashing<\/p>\n

characterless featureless<\/p>\n

rivalry bashing<\/p>\n

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Children on ponies<\/p>\n

outside the box<\/p>\n

hunting for trails<\/p>\n

who saw a Fox<\/p>\n

the great pantomime<\/p>\n

mimicry, gestures<\/p>\n

sent back in time<\/p>\n

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they are after vermin<\/p>\n

the red brush, \u00a0the one<\/p>\n

Wildness \u00a0personified<\/p>\n

the day be done<\/p>\n

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out of his earth<\/p>\n

chased for his life<\/p>\n

For he \u00a0has so much worth<\/p>\n

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port pickled stomachs<\/p>\n

inequality bound<\/p>\n

lopsidedness it\u2019s all around<\/p>\n

The sweat of the mean<\/p>\n

such generous girth<\/p>\n

the poor horses suffering<\/p>\n

Out on the earth<\/p>\n

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a family lies huddled<\/p>\n

hearing the screams<\/p>\n

the yelps<\/p>\n

And the \u00a0hunters<\/p>\n

having bad dreams<\/p>\n

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Avon vale hunt<\/p>\n

Each \u00a0boxing day<\/p>\n

All proud \u00a0as peacocks<\/p>\n

quite the display<\/p>\n

Decked out \u00a0in silks<\/p>\n

johdpurs so tight<\/p>\n

bright coloured stock<\/p>\n

providing some fight<\/p>\n

arrogant thoughts<\/p>\n

a union of members<\/p>\n

A disruption \u00a0of desire<\/p>\n

distinguishable as countrymen<\/p>\n

coherent and on fire<\/p>\n

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a kind of dissertation<\/p>\n

tradition up ahead<\/p>\n

riders hounds and vehemence<\/p>\n

was it something that we said<\/p>\n

saboteurs the audience the people<\/p>\n

Acting out<\/p>\n

another glimpse of history<\/p>\n

unfolding<\/p>\n

little doubt<\/p>\n

these throwbacks from another time<\/p>\n

ritualistically<\/p>\n

chasing \u00a0down the wilder ones<\/p>\n

and assemblage by degree<\/p>\n

prosecuting murder<\/p>\n

The trail the scent the \u00a0pain<\/p>\n

Laycock feels the evil<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all \u00a0come back again<\/p>\n

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the great deviation<\/p>\n

the ugly unorthodoxy<\/p>\n

A spectre thats bizarre<\/p>\n

grotesque to see in this day and age<\/p>\n

really just how far<\/p>\n

Tradition seems to want to go<\/p>\n

Almost off the page<\/p>\n

torture frighten tear apart<\/p>\n

wildness \u00a0fraught of rage.<\/p>\n

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Laycock that\u2019s near \u00a0Chippenham\u00a0where \u00a0thatched cottages tudor timbered black and white history revisited At Avon vale\u2019s delight   Boxing Day \u00a0it cometh the centre, \u00a0becomes a melee of huntsmen and horses and hounds of the day red coats and jodhpurs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,316,114,189,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-fox-hunting","category-foxes","category-freedom-and-whats-happening-to-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56820,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56810\/revisions\/56820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}