Christmas / The cottage / The garden / Weather

Jack Frost nipping at your…

… bits! The first real frost of the year.  The temperature dropped to -4 degrees.  The actual temperature recorded at the Lysdinam […]

Area / Doings

Royal Welsh Winterfair

Up at the crack of sparrows as usual, do the domestics, and off to Builth Wells for the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society […]

The animals

Happyhens

This is Sandie choosing a couple of new bantams, after the death of two of the travellers.  We ended up with six!.  […]

Doings

Hello to you!

and welcome to Merryhall. This web site and blog is devoted to a rather special cottage and its grounds as well as […]

W(r)ye Asides

Aside

Where do you stand on the “men pointing Percy or sitting down having a pee” debate?  This emerged in The Times this week […]

The animals

Sad news

After a long illness our lovely Silkie (Tonic – sister of Gin) passed away in her sleep on Tuesday night. In her […]

Area / Weather

Get the paper

One of the strangenesses around here so far is the sudden freeze; rain overnight or early morning, and a sudden frost about […]

The animals / Weather

Soggy Monday

Ever since we’ve been here, the locals have been commenting on how lucky we have been.  Worrying that.  Such a lovely Autumn […]