{"id":70648,"date":"2026-01-04T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70648"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:29:34","slug":"sunday-in-dolgellau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/sunday-in-dolgellau\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday in Dolgellau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday ever changing<br \/>\nThe truest Wintry scene<br \/>\nA great ball of light<br \/>\nIs hovering<br \/>\nIt feels like a fight<br \/>\nIt\u2019s magnificence is plying<br \/>\nWith the mist and cloud<br \/>\nBehold the forests trees laid bare<br \/>\nIn what is a darkening shroud<\/p>\n<p>An ever changing picture<br \/>\nFor those of us aware<br \/>\nSome have braved the thickest snow.<br \/>\nGaloshes and the rest<br \/>\nAnd took themselves to the Spa, below<br \/>\nTheir sinews for to test<br \/>\nThe odd bird ventures out<br \/>\nIt\u2019s feather puffed with air<br \/>\nCounter current heat exchange<br \/>\nIt\u2019s fat reserves though rare<\/p>\n<p>Endothermic blood supply<br \/>\nHigh energy food it craves<br \/>\nVenturing out in the ice and snow<br \/>\nIt\u2019s tenacity is what saves<br \/>\nIt\u2019s out today for certain<br \/>\nThe mountains overcome<br \/>\nHiding in the masks of mist<br \/>\nWhere the bleakness leaves us numb<\/p>\n<p>Hot cacao cayenne and lions Mane<br \/>\nCinnamon that\u2019s sweet<br \/>\nWarming up the cockels<br \/>\nPreparing for to eat<br \/>\nSome sour dough toast<br \/>\nOutside the sleet now falls<br \/>\nStair roads of ice from faraway<br \/>\nKind of over rules<\/p>\n<p>Snow again abundant<br \/>\nThe mountains once again<br \/>\nSwallowed up by the ucoming squall<br \/>\nAnd a darkening refrain<br \/>\nTufts of snow cling avidly<br \/>\nIn a quietening gloom<br \/>\nAnd all this drama plays out<br \/>\nFrom the safety of my room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday ever changing The truest Wintry scene A great ball of light Is hovering It feels like a fight It\u2019s magnificence is plying With the mist and cloud Behold the forests trees laid bare In what is a darkening shroud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/sunday-in-dolgellau\/\">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":[749,485,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-wales","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70648","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=70648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70651,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70648\/revisions\/70651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}