The cottage

Love Island…

Don't get too excited - I know it's not PC, but it's the first thing that sprang to mind.  Subject…

6 years ago

Dennis more

As of dusk last night, both groundwater and river levels had fallen. The river was down to four feet above…

6 years ago

Dennis 3

There’s no traffic on the A470, so it is probably closed northbound, and it is closed southbound at Builth Wells.…

6 years ago

Dennis 2

Dawn broke to reveal a river about eight feet above normal. this is the top step of the seven or…

6 years ago

The nights are drawing out…

as my Father used to say.  We now complete the animals by 17.30 or so, and without the stable light.…

6 years ago

Pleasant chappie…

… I think that is what he is known as.  The male pheasant has up to eight female pheasants in…

6 years ago

Oh! what a year it’s been…

... much like all the others really!  But at this time of year it fills the visual and aural BBC…

6 years ago

THE day – 2019

Christmas Day 2019. A lovely day of laughter, nostalgia, whimsy, generosity, fiz and cloudy lemonade (note to self; good doctor’s…

6 years ago

Happy Christmas to all our readers…

'tis Christmas day in the workhouse... We are an hour away from official sun-up, but the day is slowly dawning. …

6 years ago

Half a month’s worth…

Or so they say. Five inches in 24 hours of heavy, persistent, wet rain. https://youtu.be/5GToLK0n9lo The tall tree in the…

6 years ago