Amelia Earhart
I can only show you some memorials – Welsh Country expenses wouldn’t stretch far enough to send me to where she rests, even if we could be sure where it was. There isn’t a grave, but then there isn’t a […]
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Starling, Suddenly…
Yes, I realise that this sounds like the opening line clipped from some back-page obituary, a precursor to the details of a tragic loss. Nothing, however, could be further from my thoughts. There is nothing tragic here, and certainly no […]
Andy Compton Photography
I am ashamed to say I had never considered the fine balance between agriculture and nature while zipping around the Mid Wales countryside photographing events as a press photographer. All that changed at the tender age of 57 after taking […]
Llandrindod Wells
Llandrindod Wells: full praise of bells? Perhaps a hint of sombre knells? Bright days of Queen Victoria with spa, smart shops, emporia? They came, top hats and crinoline, landaus and broughams, class within, or sky steam etched above the station, […]
Farming in Llanedeyrn
Under the feudal system the manor lands consisted of the lord’s demesne and the lands of the tenants. In addition there were woodlands, commons and wastelands which provided wood, turves and pasture for cattle. The change to money rents, the […]
Brecon at Night
Step from the George, out in the night, with midnight drizzle in the air, no car, no person, come to sight, a bird takes off to see me there: each street and building has a name but shadows turn them […]
Yr Aran, Snowdonia
Often seen yet seldom climbed: Yr Aran – the ‘little pointy one next to Snowdon’ – is a real connoisseur’s mountain. Despite its diminutive height – the summit is a modest 747m, compared to the towering 1085m top of Snowdon […]
By a Lichened Wall
I think I’ll just stop here a moment and rest. As good a place as any, and probably better than most others, in fact, I’ve had this little nook in mind since I started my walk. It’s nothing special to […]
Ancient Cattle of Wales
Ancient Cattle of Wales is a cattle breed society that is possibly the youngest livestock society in the Wales and the United Kingdom. This is the first of an occasional series looking at Welsh Icons alive and dead, animate and […]
Signpost Confirms Llandovery as the Co-founder of Rugby in Wales
A spanking new signpost, emblazoned with LLANYMDDYFRI MAN GENI RYGBI YNG NGHYMRU – LLANDOVERY BIRTHPLACE OF RUGBY IN WALES, has been put up at the entrance to the town on the A4069, Llangadog to Llandovery road writes Huw S Thomas […]
Llywelyn The Great
We went to Llanrwst to see a coffin. Not an ordinary coffin, but one the greatest treasure of Wales, the sarcophagus of Llywelyn Fawr or Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd and, for a short time in the twelfth century, […]
By Brecon Canal
It’s pleasant to walk at ease beside a quiet old canal, a very common thing to do that some may think banal: appears canal as a silent water next to a towing track, bright fields lie flat to a river […]