Spent a lot of today thinking how much Marcus, Michelle and Chloe would enjoy this place; a holiday cottage for three in a village which is a living museum, right up their (historytastic) street 🙂
Another lie in this morning – I could get used to this sleeping in a bed business – albeit still in my sleeping bag so I don’t have to wash, dry and iron bed linen before we go. We were trapped in today until Ady’s tablet came back by courier so had nominated it gardening day.
After Popmaster obviously 😉
We’d bought a W&G bread roll making kit at the supermarket so the kids did that with some creative (and delicious) results while Ady and I did weeding.
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We clipped hedges and weeded beds and aside from a small amount still to be bagged up we have finished. I’m sure Lesley will be pleased, it looks markedly different to when we arrived on Monday :).
Back in for lunch of said bread rolls, some local cheese and some nice apples and carrots bought at the local supermarket.
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We sat around for an hour of so after lunch, enjoying the novelty of a sofa and a TV 😉 then the parcel arrived so we were able to go out for a walk. The little museum in town was open this afternoon so we headed there first. It’s tiny, in a house leading from room to room with all local relics and exhibits and information. Some really interesting stuff; my favourite being a school log book from a newly opened school in 1865; beautiful handwriting, typical teacher 😉 Lots of bemoaning the attendance dropping at haymaking time and the excellent one liner from 23rd February ‘thrashed the stupidity out of J Evans’
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My Dad would love it here, it is as close as I have probably ever been to a glimpse into his childhood (and no, he was not around in 1865 but I get the feeling not a lot changed here in North Wales for many years).
We then took the walk up to the castle ruins; very steep indeed. We had to pause at a bench mid-hike
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The views were stunning though and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. We found ourselves watching a smallholding down below us with sheep, chickens, a sheep dog and various outbuildings for about half an hour, deciding what was going on between the animals and the people we could see moving around down there, people watching from above with a slant towards the life we’d love to have 🙂
We had time for some hill rolling / sliding and silliness with the camera before walking back down the hill again.
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Back to the cottage where Ady did the kids tea and I finished off in the garden, chatting to the neighbours.
Bed for the kids, Apprentice and dinner for us. Tomorrow is market day here in Montgomery and I need to do some work on our zone two planning; we have at least 3 friends / family who are planning on finding us during the next couple of months so we need to be able to tell them where we are.
When are you planning to arrive here?
Comment by Jan — 26 May 2011 @ 8:01 pm