Brambles wrack my jumper and berries shrivel and wither back into the old wooden wardrobe of deep autumn hedge. Brown trees become the uniform colour of winter and the northern grey blanket spreads its heavy silence over the last blush […]
The beginning of a new year is traditionally a hopeful time and despite the current restrictions on our lives, there’s real hope that we now have a way forward. The necessary lockdowns have meant less opportunity for us all to […]
COVID-19 made 2020 a pretty miserable year for most but Welsh Country wants to look forward to 2021 and beyond and celebrate those businesses that have not only survived 2020 but diversified and expanded. We look at six businesses across […]
Capel Curig sits on the A5, the road from London to Holyhead, and is one of the gateways to Snowdonia, a place loved by walkers and climbers. Typically, we were not there for the mountains and the rocks; it was […]
The last time I wrote for ‘Welsh Country’ I made a self-acknowledged mistake, one of those senior moments that we become accustomed to as we get a tad older in the incisor. The subject of my latest bio, Sarah Siddons, […]
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their […]
Why not investigate your local river or stream, contact Affonydd Cymru? Will we ever be able to control invasive non native species? When the salmon season ended on the 17th October surprising results have come in from all over Wales […]
When he passed away on 6th July 1960, there was ‘an outpouring of national mourning’. Over 40 years later, in 2004, he was voted top of the poll in a clarion call of 100 Welsh Heroes, his role in the […]
Pentre Ifan is one of the most impressive prehistoric burial chambers in the whole of Wales and this walk, unusual for Pembrokeshire in that it’s totally landlocked, links a visit to the spectacular stones with a scenic clamber onto the […]
In the graveyard of the fine parish church of St Giles in Wrexham you will find the substantial tomb of Elihu Yale, who was buried here in 1721 and has a world-famous American university named after him. It is large […]
It will come as no surprise to my readers that I am still on my soapbox and I hope you will not be cross with my staying there!! As Wales continues trying to tackle the second wave of Covid-19 I […]
There’s a road from Aberdyfi, which winds its way through the Dyfi Valley overseen by the Plynlimon and the Tarren Hills somewhat parallel, sometimes not – to the Aberdyfi River. The road jogs its way a little through a quiet […]
