Tuesday, 22 April, 2024
A New Chapter Begins...
Monday, 22 April 2022
Well, we finally left the caravan park this morning:
And moved back into the city. With a 3 month contract on a house about a five minute drive from our proper residence on the top of the hill:
A North Gower Marsh Drive
Sunday, 21 April, 2024
Grabbed
Friday, 19 April, 2024
I managed to grab a few hours of writing time this afternoon after finishing work today. I am really pleased with how my latest novel is going :)
Making the most of the clearest night of our caravan stay, I headed down to photograph the planet Venus shining in the twilight sky over Llanrhidian marsh just after dusk.
Goodbye Penclawdd (for mow)
Thursday, 18 April, 2024
I took a last goodbye (for now) walk around Penclawdd this evening after work. The lighting wasn't too fantastic, hence my choice of black and white for a number of the shots. I've enjoyed my time living back near the marsh and have felt the magical sense of hiraeth for the first time in my life, Sadly, the city calls...
My Diet Begins...
Tuesday. 16 April, 2024
Second day back at work, though an early finish allowed me to do a little extra writing on my next novel, Familiar.
Also, I started my much-needed weightloss program today with an official weigh in. Gonna make it public in the hope it encourages me to make good progress on it. I'm healthy again, and back in work, so should hopefully be a lot more active again. I just have to keep off those addictive crisps!
As I finally left work, I couldn't help but take another Shadowme pic with this interesting shadow:
Penclawdd Industrial Revolution Slag
Sunday, 14 April, 2014
I took a walk out to the old rocks on the east side of the Penclawdd marsh this afternoon. These curious large boulders on the east end of the Penclawdd marsh are the industrial slag waste from the old metal works that were once located here and formed part of Britain's historic Industrial Revolution. During that time, coal, tinplate, lead, copper, silver and brass were all worked on this part of the Gower coastline. Today, as you can see, the landscape this industry once polluted to drive Britain's wealth is a scene of serenity.
I have been meaning to visit this area of Penclawdd for a while now, but I have always failed to take decent photos of these 'rocks'. I'm happy with the images I managed to harvest today, though. They will be useful for my Explore Gower book, Tidal Gower, which I shall be working on later in the year.
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