as they say. Took a ride to the Elan valley to see the dams. The first one is Caban Coch which holds- ready? 8000.000.000 gallons of water. With a surface area of 500+ acres. The second one
is Claerwen dam, opened in the early 50’s it is the last to be finished, I remember as a child having a class project on the building and opening by The Queen, one of her first tasks as the Monarch. And, perhaps little known fact, RAF Squadron 644 practiced on an old Elan Valley dam prior to the raid on the German dams.
Impatiens glandulifera, Himalayan balsam, is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas. Via human…
A gulp of Cormorants. Apparently that’s the collective noun; or a swim (I like that).…
Hot weather on the way, and we don’t like it. We generally don’t stop, there’s…
Three months into playing in the tunnel, what is it looking like? https://youtu.be/L9Da85uCQUQ?is=4wKPIP_pLAxEz5gp
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…