Grandma said...if you can't move, move the furniture!! ....some is moving out, some is moving around.
I've got a sideboard that needs to go too, but that will be sold as it is wood and worth quite a bit...and should more than pay for shelves with glass doors so that I can have my collection on show, but not needing dusting too often!!
I'll photograph the awl (?) tomorrow and the plate...then you can see all the treasures.
I managed to pick the last of the rather damp runner beans. Now they are on the greenhouse staging ready to be sorted and dry for both eating and growing next year.
From ten o'clock it "did what it said on the tin"....as forecast, with a yellow warning, cold, very wet and rather windy.
After lunch I had had enough..and saw a FB posting by Nae Sae New....a ribbed rolling pin for pasta...so I said I'd buy it..and went there in the car straight away!!
And found a sturdy hoe head that will fit the handle that my brother has..to clear his block paving drive of weeds....and a thing for making holes by hand with a Wooden handle....and a Quimper blue and white cake/biscuit plate with a cockerel design....as you do when you enter such a marvellous emporium!!
The rolling pin is made for rolling out pasta...but could be used with clay....
Not much done for the rest of the day.. mainly chatting by message to various people and making a list of things to do when it is hopefully dry tomorrow.
Back home...no photos today!!
I missed the way on to the Expressway by Llaneurgain (Northop in English!!)
So had a gentle start on old roads that I'd ridden and driven on at the end of the 70s...and topped up the fuel before getting on the big roads. Starting at a bit after 9.30 am was a good idea. The traffic was busy but flowing.
Not at all stressful and an easy drive right to Tebay for my lunch stop and leg stretch. Also good dry weather all the way....until we approached the border...
Then I found that the screen wash had run out...so leaving the motorway and all the spray was preferable!! And the rain stopped. Thankfully!
A stop in Dumfries where a friend had offered a break...soup roll and a cuppa set me up for the last 55 miles. I think he needed the company ,as he works mainly from home, and his father died not long ago. It gave him a break too.
Then a quick stop for essentials from the Co-op in Thornhill. From there to home is always an hour! 38 miles through the dusk with a bright pink sky and grey clouds...and arriving at 5.15 as it settled into night.
I think that everything is in from the car...the clothes washing ready, but that won't get done tomorrow as heavy rain is forecast. Cleaning the car out properly will have to wait as well.
A good thing I came back today!!
A start before 9 today...and the first 70 miles took 2 hours.....with a couple of stops to check the route! Mostly on roads that I knew.... 48 years ago when I started to learn to drive in a Triumph Herald car!!
A morning of mountain passes, twisty roads and good scenery!...you could look at this on Street View!!
Up through Machynlleth...my first time on the new bridge over the river..raising the road above land often flooded...
Nearly to Dolgellau, but cut across by Brithdir to the road to Y Bala ( which means the place where water enters a lake) through the town then left to Fron Goch , and turn for Cerrig y Drudion. Then up and over by two reservoirs to Dinbych (Denbigh) where the high street was closed for the remembrance parade...
A quick trip to a convenient supermarket for provisions, then the road was clear....but having gone through the town, roadworks held me up for ten minutes!!
Finally on the road through Bodfari, turn left at Afonwen, up through Caerwys , over the Expressway, left at Lloc to Trelawnyd...where l headed for the home of friends that I have known since about 1990!!
Plus I had a bowl to deliver...and the nice surprise was that the recipient would be having lunch with them as well!
And this is the bowl...
Our trip was disrupted.....it is the weekend that prospective university students get to tour the Campus...which includes the Arts Centre.
The exhibition that we wanted to see was supposed to be open today...but because of the occasion won't be open until Monday. A pity, not just because we wanted to see it...but it would have given prospective students a taste of what goes on.
My camera was busy.....
Foiled there, we went into town...and the only parking space was by the old harbour ( daughter can't walk far so is in a self propelled wheelchair..sometimes with teenager power on steep bits!)
A walk around the castle, a short look at the open market, a small gallery...and lunch in the Dragonfly, a brilliant small veggie and vegan café.
I'm not sure what the bottle "hovel" would have been....over a pottery kiln, a grain dryer or what?! Time to investigate!!
Then back for a cuppa...and sort the maps that I brought down for them.
Quite a few will assist in family history research. And it means less on my shelves....
Just checked..it was a Maltings kiln .and you can visit it..one for next time!
This morning...
Two out one in!!
Moving on again, starting over the end of the mountain... through cloud...so it took a bit longer than planned...then on lower ground than the clouds...it was raining!!
Called last an old friend for a coffee after 50 miles or so..he moved there in March ...so hasn't made any clay work for a while..and like me is suffering from a workshop stacked with other stuff as he has made an extreme downsize!! Hopefully he will get there before too long.
Then on to Aberystwyth, not too far, for a wander around, lunch, post a letter and head up to the arts centre. I didn't fancy the streets of Aber in the rain!!
The print exhibition wasn't open...yet!! So after a while I carried on another twenty minutes up the road to Daughter and family...and another cat!!
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