{"id":559,"date":"2007-11-19T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/sunday-lunch-and-feeding-the-birds\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T10:13:07","slug":"sunday-lunch-and-feeding-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/sunday-lunch-and-feeding-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday lunch and Feeding the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/an-action-packed-weekend\/\">action packed Saturday<\/a>, Sunday was destined to be a family day. We headed into Aberystwyth to get some supplies and then went to the garden centre at Capel Dewi. We hadn&#8217;t been there for a while and it has all changed, and for the better we reckon. 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