A North Gower Marsh Drive

Sunday, 21 April, 2024

Our last drive through the North Gower marshland. Tomorrow we head back to the city.

A Walk Through Llanrhidian

 Friday, 05 April, 2024

I took a stroll around Llanrhidian this afternoon and harvested a view images of the experience with you:

The remains of a Celtic Cross on the village green

Celtic Cross remains with Llanrhidian Church in background

Another, more ancient Standing Stone on the village green

Llanrhidian Church dates from Medieval times

The two embedded stones in the church gatepost are supposedly cursed and were once
part of a more ancient graveyard located next to the caravan site where we're staying

This huge and mysterious slab of etched rock was dug in in the grounds of the graveyard 

The interior of Llanrhidian Church

Llanrhidian's 2 pubs, the Welcome to Town
and The Dolphin Inn

An incredible convoluted rock used in
a wall of a Llanrhidian garden

The remains of Llanrhidian Mill

The previous night's storm is recorded in the village telegraph wires

This spot caught my eye - to the degree where
I also took a short short video

A very short video, that is well worth watching to the end:

Weobley Castle

Sheep chilling beneath the Iron Iage Earth Fort ofCilifor Top 

Another, more distant shot of Cilifor Top

Heading back to the caravan, I met another site cat, as well as seeing the more familiar black moggy:

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Day 2/100 and a Laundry-time Meander

Monday, 01 April,  2024

Day 2 of my Guy N Smith 100-day-project. Working on the introduction of the Guy N Smith zine under the watchful eye of fudjcat. 

Whilst staying at the caravan site, we doing our clothes washing in the landrette, the cycle lasting 30 minutes. With that in mind, we took a quick drive to the local pond on Cefn Bryn, Broadpool, catching the sunset there perfectly:

Returning to the campsite with a good 10 minutes to spare; we parked the car up outside the laundrette and crossed the road to photograph the sheep that were gathered near the roadside gate:

The sheep were very inquisitive and friendly and even allowed me to take a short video of them:

The Entrance to Llanrhidian Holiday Park

The evening light really has been kind to us since we have been staying in Llanrhidian, as as we left the laundrette with our washing, we were even rewarded with a huge rainbow over our caravan:

A New 100-Day-Project

 Saturday, 30 March, 2024

It was one of my better days yesterday. It started with me vising the marsh to get some shots of the high tide, continued with us almost completing the removal of all our things from the upstairs and attic of our charred house, and, after an evening's drive back to the caravan beneath the most fantastic of skies (see yesterday's post if you want to see it for yourself,) we watched continued watching the brilliant 3 Body Problem on Netflix! And in between all that, I finally picked up the courage to ask Tara, the daughter of my favourite author, if she would let me publish one of her Dad's unique manuscripts I have in my collection in my forthcoming tribute book to him. I cannot describe the elated feeling I got when she gave me her blessing 🙂 I am turning this venture into a '100-Day-Project', and the clock starts tomorrow. Time to plan...

In the afternoon, I finally took some pics of these trees by the Swansea dump I've been frequenting for the past few weeks.

We drove along the marsh road on the way back to the caravan and I stopped off briefly to take a short video of the small church there with it modern tweeting Swift boxes:

A beautiful evening ended the day, reminding us to always make the best of bad situation:

Good Friday Sunshine

 Friday, 29 March, 2024

What better way to spend an early Good Friday morning than wading through mud in the sunshine?

The end of the day brought equal delight as we drove over the Gower Peninsula from Swansea, where we were accompanied by literally the best sky I have ever seen. And I caught it in a video to share with you. If ever I have shot a video suitable for Edward G Robinson's finale in Soylent Green it was this little beauty.