I am happy to report that my guide to local faery folklore, The Verry Volk, has now been completed. It should be hopefully available to buy sometime over the next week. :)
Misery in the Garden
What a welcome relief to feel the warmth of the sun again :)
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| Reading Stephen King's Misery out in the garden |
A Beach Campfire Beneath the Stars
Making the most of the last nights of Summer 2019:
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| Our campfire beneath The Plough constellation |
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| Yours truly beneath the stars |
Three Cliffs Bay, Pennard
I took a walk down to this fine beach today:
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| Three Cliffs Bay |
It was a lovely walk down from the car park...
...and I saw this curious scene en route:
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| Skittles decorating the path down to Three Cliffs Bay |
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| The magnificent Three Cliffs Bay |
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| Three Cliff Bay, looking towards Oxwich |
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| Pennard Cliffs |
...I stopped off for some refreshments at the Pennard Stores outdoors cafe, where I made this short field recording of the background chatter there:
I couldn't think of a better way to round off this year's summer :)
The Verry Volk #10 and #11
With The Verry Volk close to completion, I will conclude this short series of posts sharing some of the photographs contained in the book with these two images, both taken along the immense marshland that stretches from the foot of Llanmadoc.
It has been an immense pleasure writing and producing this book, which I hope you will finally be able to get your hands on sometime over the next weekend. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed working on it.
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| A pony meandering across the marshlands of Llanmadoc |
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| Cwm Ivy Tor, Llanmadoc |
The Verry Volk #8
In the depths of Betty Church Woods, Llanmadoc, a shaft of light strikes an ancient tree.
The Verry Volk #7
This is one of my favourite photographs featured in The Verry Volk - a nice moonlit shot of Three Cliffs Bay. According to local folklore, this was once the scene of Fae festivities. Interrupted by a chief and his army, who attempted to slaughter the magickal creatures, the faery folk, or Verry Volk as the locals used to term them, wreaked a dreadful vengeance on the warring men and their castle, which looked down upon the bay!
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| A moonlit Three Cliffs Bay |
The Verry Volk #4
This image from my forthcoming book, The Verry Volk, features the village I called home for the first twenty years of my life - Penclawdd. I hope you agree that I was very lucky to have been brought up amongst such spectacular natural beauty:
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