Visit to the NBGW

Yesterday we went to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Below is a link to a slideshow of some photos.

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or you can browse them here -

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A bumper crop of cherries this year.

Six cherries!! More than last year - zero!

A day off for us.....

We went to the National Botanical Garden but Neil had to work - bailing the hay on the hay field. Sixty bails apparently.

A bicycle shed to meet behind.

Now that we have bikes we need somewhere to keep them. A lean-to cover seemed to be the answer.

Still working on the goat shed.

The next project .......

The builders are working inside (plastering) and outside rendering so I can't work inside (electrics and decorating) or outside (paving and flowerbeds) so the I have started the next project - making a 'studio' and shed out of the goat shed.

Windows and doors painted inside and out.

The good thing about the conservatory is that it has lots of windows.

The bad thing about the conservatory is that it has lots of windows .... that all need painting. Inside and out. And the woodstain/varnish needs four coats to get it as dark as we want so that the frames don't show.

Painting windows.

I will be doing this for quite some time!

Foundations for step between terraces.

Another day off.

We went to Llanelli to pick up a second-hand bike for Kate.

and we visited the National Wetland Centre at Llanelli.

Wonderful place. There were southern marsh orchids in the grounds too.

Not a wishing well or a gun emplacement.

We are going to raise the ground level around the gas-tank access lid so I have built a little wall around it using blocks from the old shed. 'People' have been speculating unhelpfully as to what it was.

Moving mountains. 1

I have been using the surplus builders scalpings to fill in by the gates by moving it from here.....

Moving mountains. 2

to here.