Lady Alice Douglas Pennant
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 […]
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Sarah Siddons ‘Queen of the Stage’
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, […]
The Winter Garden 2021
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 […]
A Small Glimmer of Hope for Salmon
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 […]
Nye Bevan – 1897 to 1960
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
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 […]
Elihu Yale
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 […]
Sorry to Keep Repeating Myself But Please Shop Locally
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 […]
Pennal
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 […]
Carp Fishing Finds New Devotees
Wales has been renowned over the years that I have been fishing for producing top class fly anglers. These people have in the main been fishing for trout and salmon. Over the years coarse anglers began to fish for their […]
The Early Winter Garden
It feels unusual to be contemplating winter, since at the time of writing in late September, we are experiencing a fleeting heatwave and are sadly, still in the midst of the pandemic. Whilst I cannot pretend that winter is my […]
Nearly Autumn
September trees rattle like down turned paper cups. Golden lampshade softens tones of green and grey but heightens hues of crimson berries and the rolling waves of fallowed hay. Birdsong scatters and slowly fades into insignificant outbursts of random chatter […]