{"id":71245,"date":"2026-04-09T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71245"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:05:23","slug":"dancers-end-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/dancers-end-nature-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancers End  nature reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nature reserve<br \/>\nIn Dancing End<br \/>\nIn Charles Rothschilds memory<br \/>\nA great wealth they send<br \/>\nAncient old woods<br \/>\nA haven of calm<br \/>\nAnd Pavis  Woods<br \/>\nIndomitable charm<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a special place<br \/>\nOn the chilterns, we see<br \/>\nAcres and acres<br \/>\nHigh up actually<br \/>\nVascular, fungi<br \/>\nMosses<br \/>\ngalore<br \/>\nand several wild orchids<br \/>\nAnd many more<br \/>\nMantles and pimpernels<br \/>\nGreat butterflies<br \/>\nTrefoils and hawkweeds<br \/>\nWild basil applies<br \/>\nHairstreaks<br \/>\nCock pheasants wandering free<br \/>\nA wildness profusion<br \/>\nSo much to see<\/p>\n<p>Down to the Lee<br \/>\nTo the shop where we bought<br \/>\nSome local fresh vegetables<br \/>\nFree range eggs sought<br \/>\nFresh cut asparagus<br \/>\nSucculent greens<br \/>\nSough dough<br \/>\nA nice bag<br \/>\nAnd, some fresh beans <\/p>\n<p>Lots of high blossom<br \/>\nMagnolia\u2019s too<br \/>\nIn country gardens<br \/>\nHow we construe<br \/>\nLight spangled diadems<\/p>\n<p>That deftly imbue<br \/>\nSoulful embraces<br \/>\nNo word of a lie<br \/>\nThree roads cross magically<br \/>\nask each other  why<br \/>\nbesoms of willow<br \/>\nFor those in the sky<br \/>\nA conflation of spell binding<br \/>\nMagical powers<br \/>\nFly agaric and liminal momentous<br \/>\nShowers<br \/>\nNature above  us wherever we go<br \/>\nIn what is a magical mystery show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nature reserve In Dancing End In Charles Rothschilds memory A great wealth they send Ancient old woods A haven of calm And Pavis Woods Indomitable charm It\u2019s a special place On the chilterns, we see Acres and acres High &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/dancers-end-nature-reserve\/\">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":[749,905,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-magick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245","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=71245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71248,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245\/revisions\/71248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}