{"id":70663,"date":"2026-01-06T11:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70663"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:43:22","slug":"snow-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/snow-and-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow and ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dawdling energy<br \/>\nSpreads over yonder<br \/>\nHeavy eyed drowsy<br \/>\nThe mountains of white<br \/>\nKind of euphoric<br \/>\nThe sky blueing rapidly<br \/>\nA huge heap of forest<br \/>\nPitch tar in spite<br \/>\nOf Seagulls on chimney pots<br \/>\nWarming the cockles<br \/>\nA high ermine  frill<br \/>\nSees Dolgellau below<br \/>\nThe light bright and chalky<br \/>\nJust driven snow<br \/>\nAnd A picture so still<br \/>\nAnd an eternal glow<\/p>\n<p>An Image  of stillness<br \/>\nOf valid perspective<br \/>\nA force that  affirms<br \/>\nCompelling to see<br \/>\nStarkness created<br \/>\nAn artless indifference<br \/>\nThe sage and the sorcerer<br \/>\nBoth would agree<\/p>\n<p>From  an odd chimney<br \/>\nA primitive gust<br \/>\nIn opportune<br \/>\napparently just<br \/>\nLost in the stillness<br \/>\nIts upward course<br \/>\nIrregular patterns<br \/>\nFrom A predictive source<\/p>\n<p>A perFect stillness<br \/>\nPowerless to say<br \/>\nSomewhat exhausted<br \/>\nBy the previous day<br \/>\nA vulnerability<br \/>\nFlaccidity seen<br \/>\nShoddy and tumbledown<br \/>\nCraggy and green<\/p>\n<p>Tufts of snow hang in tresses<br \/>\nWeighted and white<br \/>\nA dominant stillness<br \/>\nEver so bright<br \/>\nA long drawn out forest<br \/>\nStrung out and dark<br \/>\nUn wrinkled and smooth<br \/>\nSurely making its mark<br \/>\nThe sky ever changing<br \/>\nUnformed seemingly<br \/>\nChaotic and nebulous<br \/>\nBlurred and furry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dawdling energy Spreads over yonder Heavy eyed drowsy The mountains of white Kind of euphoric The sky blueing rapidly A huge heap of forest Pitch tar in spite Of Seagulls on chimney pots Warming the cockles A high ermine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/snow-and-ice\/\">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":[485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70663","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=70663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70665,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70663\/revisions\/70665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}