Afternoon walk..with cat..and archaeology

 Ok....it is up to its tricks again! Pictures in reverse order!!

A small farm with a café, with an assortment of animals and birds..pigs, horses and donkeys as well as these.

Storm damaged beech tree 

The height from the feeder outlet to the top of the pond

Gate to try and keep people out of the feeder, which fed water to the canal at Crumlin

Overflow feeder, rough bed and zigzags to slow the flow

Top of the overflow feeder

Soggy doggy! Frank is a strong swimmer 

Cut down a row of ancient oaks in a boundary....fine ½ million £.  Sell the land...£3 million. Not much disincentive 

Canada geese. There have been few birds on Penyfan Pond lately..hardly any ducks, no cormorants very few geese and even not one gull in sight.

Dog..ball..

Walking, running or riding around the pond, yes....but standing there hip depth for hours???

Old Gelli Farm...much wrangling was had over this as the owner didn't leave a will and expected his word to be followed....many years passed and a few years ago the wriggly tin roof had a lightning strike causing a fire....

And the cat came too....

Afternoon walk 1. murals

 

Our Shirts Patchwork progress

 Centre block done.

Onwards...to another garden!

 A bright and early start today, delayed by ten minutes chicken wrangling..one of the chooks from next door to my brother has been coorie-ing down under his front garden large rosemary bush! From now on he will be checking there for eggs!!

A smooth run over to Newport by the velodrome to see an old friend..the son of the man who coached me and many others in the 70s....then on up the Ebbw Valley from Newport and up a steep hill..then a steeper hill...to where my youngest son The Carpenter lives.

Great to catch up with all including my granddaughter...and of course we went up to their allotment garden!

This one goes broody every so often

Two plastic eggs..partly as a hint.

Lay here please! And partly to dissuade the habit of egg pecking

We weeded and watered..and wended our way home.

So fortunate to have allotments in the village, not ten to fifteen miles away like my village 

Weeding

 Before 

After

Fair payment for sorting my website and lending me a tent.....