{"id":69721,"date":"2025-09-28T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69721"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:58:20","slug":"acorns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/acorns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorns 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the end of September<\/p>\n<p>theres grey in the sky<\/p>\n<p>awelfa is basking<\/p>\n<p>in sunshine on high<\/p>\n<p>this mast year \u00a0is providing<\/p>\n<p>a bumper crop<\/p>\n<p>of Acorns all over<\/p>\n<p>the garden,<\/p>\n<p>no stop<\/p>\n<p>already sprouting<\/p>\n<p>a white slippery tail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>wanting \u00a0to possess<\/p>\n<p>the earth, never fail<\/p>\n<p>Gods creative gift<\/p>\n<p>in the moisture we see<\/p>\n<p>saplings are growing<\/p>\n<p>Infinitely.<\/p>\n<p>proving the life force<\/p>\n<p>of the Sessile Oak<\/p>\n<p>is really magnificent<\/p>\n<p>it doesn\u2019t choke<\/p>\n<p>buried under the<\/p>\n<p>leaves<\/p>\n<p>soon it does grow<\/p>\n<p>to be or not to be<\/p>\n<p>a fine Oak<\/p>\n<p>As we know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i was up early on the slippery slope<\/p>\n<p>sweeping up the babies<br \/>\nfor me hard to cope<\/p>\n<p>being disabled sweeping alone<\/p>\n<p>its easy to fall<\/p>\n<p>and perhaps break a bone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i am here though to work<\/p>\n<p>and be careful, for \u00a0I<\/p>\n<p>work alone in the mornings<\/p>\n<p>under the sky.<\/p>\n<p>sweeping and bending and filling my sack<\/p>\n<p>with so many acorns<\/p>\n<p>and still under attack<\/p>\n<p>from all the trees behind me<\/p>\n<p>Still tossing them down<\/p>\n<p>as I sweep them they drop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the end of September theres grey in the sky awelfa is basking in sunshine on high this mast year \u00a0is providing a bumper crop of Acorns all over the garden, no stop already sprouting a white slippery tail &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/acorns-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[749,905,916],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-acorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721","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=69721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69723,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721\/revisions\/69723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}