{"id":90102,"date":"2026-02-15T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90102"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:20:04","slug":"snow-stopped-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/15\/snow-stopped-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow stopped play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am out birdwatching, although that may not be obvious from the amount of blogging going on.<\/p>\n<p>I am sitting in the window of the cafe at Welney watching what birds there are through the snow and blogging when the snow obliterates the view:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-550x414.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-550x414.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-399x300.png 399w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-1536x1155.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-2048x1540.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-12.17.23-532x400.png 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are around 2,000 pink-footed geese in the distance in that photo, but you will just have to take my word for it. I can't see them in the picture either - but they are out there. So, now you know why I am blogging as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am out birdwatching, although that may not be obvious from the amount of blogging going on. I am sitting in the window of the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/15\/snow-stopped-play\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90104,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102\/revisions\/90104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}