{"id":70465,"date":"2025-12-12T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70465"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:20:49","slug":"the-little-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-little-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"The little folk know as the wallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dry stone wallers<\/p>\n<p>exceptional<\/p>\n<p>for wild soul callers<\/p>\n<p>they<\/p>\n<p>Field mice<\/p>\n<p>Shrews<\/p>\n<p>And Voles<\/p>\n<p>abound<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hedgehogs,and Squirrels play<\/p>\n<p>Not \u00a0forgetting Samuel Stoat<\/p>\n<p>all \u00a0the beasties down below<\/p>\n<p>side by side with slow worms<\/p>\n<p>Newts and Toads all know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>taking up residence<\/p>\n<p>in these walls<\/p>\n<p>a corridor you see<\/p>\n<p>along with Moss and Lichens<\/p>\n<p>vital wild life come<\/p>\n<p>They \u00a0all have a field day<\/p>\n<p>Just hearken to that hum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of chattering<\/p>\n<p>around the place<\/p>\n<p>where all the \u00a0dry walls are<\/p>\n<p>standing upright in all weathers<\/p>\n<p>here and there and far<\/p>\n<p>across the fields and \u00a0mountain sides<\/p>\n<p>wallers do abide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry stone wallers exceptional for wild soul callers they Field mice Shrews And Voles abound &nbsp; Hedgehogs,and Squirrels play Not \u00a0forgetting Samuel Stoat all \u00a0the beasties down below side by side with slow worms Newts and Toads all know &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-little-folk\/\">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":[749,4,664,793,189,728,219,378,281,836,933,236,282,932,931,519,297,485,906,289,134,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-animal-rights","category-drowning-our-sorrows","category-dry-stone-wall-dweller","category-foxes","category-fungus","category-hedgehogs","category-hedgerows","category-house-mice","category-insects","category-lichens-and-mosses","category-mice-and-rodents","category-minks","category-newts","category-slow-worms","category-snails-escargot","category-snakes-and-reptiles","category-wales","category-wallers","category-weasels","category-wild-birds","category-wild-plants-some-call-weeds-bot-not-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70465","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=70465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70468,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70465\/revisions\/70468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}