walking

Sloes, mountains and turbines

Sloes, mountains and turbines

This cannot surely be the shortest route – via Wrexham for Llangurig, but we got there.  A number of great discoveries later, an Azada being one of them, great for the back, great for the garden.  You always see them in the background on films about agriculture in Africa, the forked version – great for the weeds.  Our hosts invite us for supper, the sloes we picked earlier finishing off the meal as a topping to an apple cake.  Brains pubs have always been a favourite, Aberdyfi has two!  The town nestles alongside the Dyfi estuary like a mini...

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Hedgerow Harvest

Two weeks ago the elderberries looking like they wanted a week of sunshine, this week most were ripe for picking! Haws and sloes, damsons and blackberries went in the bag for good measure. Hedgerow jam is on the cards, a few sloes might find their way into some vodka by the sound of it. I’ve never been a fan of sloe gin, I like mine to taste of juniper! I’ve a feeling some of the elderberry cordial might end up on the altar at harvest time, alongside the home grown wheat-bread… [little update:  This all pails into insignificance with...

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Parish Walk #1

Parish Walk #1

I didn’t want to dictate the route of the first walk, so I asked for a start point and an end point.  In the end we walked a circular route from one well to another and back again.  We had no route planned, except for a vague direction.  We began at the Well in Ffynnongroyw, for many years the source of water for the village.  It is now a feature on a footpath, a place for the dogs to have a lap of water on a walk.  There were one or two coins in the well, hopefully it brought...

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Random College Entry

  • Zen

    Ok, so the prevarication is out of the way! Before starting I read a bit of a book called Zen and the Kingdom of Heaven. I could have written the first few paragraphs! ‘My legs wont do that, I’m too old for this, and my knees are hovering in the air someplace. In despair I set out to get ‘comfy’ Remembering how I used to sit, I boldly tried to get one leg to go on top of the other… yeah right! OK 30 minutes. In the time it took me to think ‘one’ before I even started to breathe, there it was as clear as daylight in my head. ‘Just get up, what are you doing!’ That thought never really left me as the 30 minutes ticked away painfully slowly. The wall before me was a mass of colour, never before has magnolia looked so vivid! OOONNNNNNNEEEEEEEE. Still on one, not quite ready to breathe again, because if you get to two, that means you have not considered anything else during the breath number one, consciously knowing this of course counts against you, so screaming ONE, (silently of course) in your head as you breathe ‘helps’ to eliminate all [...]

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