Another hard day at the desk!

Wet today. So inside making the Cilycwm website work again. And also continuing the work on the maps.

 

Back to work.

Not really, only joking. 

Still raining so I worked on the village website, which had gone offline. It is working now, more or less. 

Catch up time.

It has been a while since the last post and a lot of water has flowed under the bridge; an awful lot!

But not a lot has been happening in the garden as it is winter so all the activity has been out and about.

Here are some highlights:

Early in December we went to Cumbria for a fortnight to house-sit for Kate's brother and sister-in-law. They have three border terriers who had to be looked after.

We got out for some nice trips;

Then it was back home for Christmas. 

Just for two!

Then James and Grace came for a few days.

Then a family visit to Birmingham, calling at Baddeley Hinton on the way. 

And a family gathering that managed to avoid being photographed! Apart from this shot of boys being boys. "We are just testing" they said. 

And today has been the first day back in the garden, tidying up after the storms. 

More news tomorrow. 

Just when you think life can't get more exciting.....

'a sparrow hawk hits the window. He sat, stunned for a while so I was able to get some photos. 

Today was another day out taking photos of farms. 

Autumn bonfire.

Well, I tried to have an autumn bonfire. But the stuff was too wet and after several promising starts I gave up. (No hedgehogs were hurt in this attempted bonfire - I checked very carefully). 

Out with the camera.

A day touring farms and derelict cottages - photos for the book. 

Weeding, strimming and mowing.

But still time to sit and watch the late afternoon sun. 

A gardening day.

Still a lot of colour in the garden. 

Working indoors again.

This is the map I have been creating. The numbers relate to the farms that were surveyed. 

Catch up.

Some jobs that have been done but not blogged. 

We had noises in the roof above the dormer - louder than the usual sparrows so measures were taken!

Chicken wire was used to prevent little things getting in. 

The gravel has been finished. 

But today I have been working on the Farm Names Project, placing all the farms on maps for the book.

The next job will be to go and take photos of some of them.  

We got snow!

Well we had snow. On the Mallaen. For ten minutes. Gone now. 

Photos from Bella's Holiday album.