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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham August 15th 2022

The heat is on, on the street , inside your head on every beat. The songs words seem to be going round and round my head . The song that came from Beverley Hills Kop seems to echo to the sights, sounds and heat of an exceptionally hot summer . My head was full of Eddie Murphy and the weather that was steaming and the humidity high. The mercury has reached the heady unheard of heights of 35 degrees . The grass is parched . The flowers are dying . The water in lakes and rivers are at their lowest and old buildings are appearing in the dry reservoirs . There is a hosepipe ban in some areas . It is too hot to walk in the day . That has to be done early . ... read more
Six of these waiting to be lifted
Being tone deaf would I be able to get a tune out of this one ?
Ready to ring

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham August 9th 2022

The days are getting shorter as they do when we move through August . The weather though is still hot and muggy. Wildfires are breaking out here and there . Hosepipe bans are being introduced in some counties and the reservoirs are starting to look dry . It feels best to do things early in the morning . Walks feel better in the cooler morning air . Swimming is pleasant before the summer heat kicks in . The fridge is working overtime to keep cool . As we are struggling too . The fields are yellow or turning brown . The Rowan and Hawthorn berries are beginning to turn bright red . Autumn is only just around the corner . Before long we will moan about the rain , the lack of sunshine and the thought ... read more
The 17th century notebook
Another iconic welsh image
The early map showing Holt Castle

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham August 2nd 2022

How quickly things can change ? How often does it happen that you have a plan and something happens that changes everything ? It must have happened to us times many over the years . Coming home from Venice - the volcano in Iceland erupts and an easy couple of hours flight home turns into an epic train, car and ferry journey home . The Greek sailors striking meaning no way out of Greece and the wait until the strike was over . A gite holiday planned with a flight into Bergamo . Cancelled due to the seat problems on the airplane . Covid getting in the way of Scandanavia . So many plans . So many times we have come up against the immovable object . Sometimes we have found ways round it but sometimes ... read more
The headstock
All coalboard signs looked like this one
The old dilapidated trams

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham July 31st 2022

It has been a short break this year between the end of the football season and the start of the new one . Scotland start early due to their bad winters . Because of the World Cup our season is starting a month earlier than normal . The Charity Shield as I will forever know it was held at the King Power Stadium in Leicester . Liverpool hammered Manchester City . It has been a season of summer sport from Wimbledon to the 20/20 Cricket , from the Womens Euros to the Commonwealth Games . If you are into your sport then the summer of 2022 has been a good one with something for everyone . As we drove into town clutching our tickets for the last pre-season friendly we found ourselves chatting about the match ... read more
The Wrexham Tailors Quilt
The hump backed elephant
Alexander McQueens bag with smiling lion

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham July 26th 2022

As we drove I found myself telling Glenn all about the Park Wall and the country park that now filled the space between Gwersyllt, Bradley and Llay. It was not always a country park . I had less than fond memories of walks from my home village along the park wall to Cefn Y Bedd . I thought it was never ending . A high wall I could not see over . If I were lucky I would only have to walk along part of its length . Some days thought my gran made me walk from Gwersyllt to Bradley where the wall was lower . I still don't remember what was the other side of the wall . It seemed mysterious. I later found out that it was the wall that surrounded the old Gwersyllt ... read more
Enamel dragonfly
The river gently babbled by
The metal frog

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham July 15th 2022

I don't particularly like this time of the year . The mornings are cool. The skies are like a grey blanket covering us and keeping the sun out. When the suns does appear it swelters . It is so muggy that the trousers I wore this morning are discarded for shorts . The thin jumper thrown back in the cupboard and the T Shirt dug out . The air feels still . The sun burns down . High summer has arrived and with it unpleasant sultry conditions . We don't do summer well . The grass is turning yellow . The hedgerows are dusty. The flowers in the fields are almost over . Everything looks a uniform yellow or off tinge of brown . The schools are out for summer . Well at least some of ... read more
All Saints
The evangelists atop the tower
One of the disaster memorials

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham July 14th 2022

You know what it is like don't you ? You want to do something but you cannot find anything to do . It always happens after you live somewhere for a while . You exhaust all the local walks . All the nearest English Heritage , Cadw and National Trust properties are out of travelling distance. To top it all there is nothing going on in town . After much searching I found a plant fair going on at Cholmondeley Castle gardens . Brilliant I thought as I realised the entrance fee was halved today . So instead of £9 each to see the gardens we could pay £4.50 and benefit from the plant fair with the garden half price . Without too much ado I set to booking the tickets . How hard could that ... read more
The Japanese gate
The japanese bridge
The bardic standing stones

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham July 2nd 2022

Cymru Rhydd- Free Wales . That is what we could hear being chanted by the crowd marching in front of us . The Welsh national anthem was being sung with gusto. The words of Calon Lan - a welsh hymn about a clean and pure heart rang out . What do we want ? Independence came the reply. The flags flutter in the breeze . We join the march on Queens Square which is set up with stalls selling welsh produce and welsh beer . A large TV screen is set up and the march has already started . We read that it would assemble at 12 and set off up Duke Street at 12.30 . This would give us time for a coffee, a bacon sandwich and a sausage roll. We latched on the middle ... read more
The flags pointing the way
Independence wanted - message sent to Boris
A welsh woman with Dafydd Iwan

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham June 28th 2022

We found ourselves in town again . We seem to do this often. Today was another trip to the optician . We never would have done this in Chesterfield . There would have been any old excuse to stay at home . The plan thought did end up rather back to front . What we planned to do first was relegated to last. What was last ended up first . Usual parking spot and the usual walk across St Giles Crescent and down Charles Street . We were early for the appointment so there was the need to find something to do to pass 20 minutes . We knew the optician would not want us there early and it was not quite enough time for a coffee . We did pass Cafe de Galles and put ... read more
A silent choir
Crowns hidden everywhere
Fit for royalty

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Wrexham June 27th 2022

We were driving into town talking amongst ourselves as we drove . What have we done since we have lived here ? Had we realised we have been here 15 months ? We came down to rain, a flooded garage , a family who would not move out and Covid almost instant lockdown . Life had drifted along under Covid. Gabby had stood unused and stored . It is fair to say she has not travelled far in the last 15 months nor in the months that preceded the move . We have struggled getting workmen to come and do the jobs we are not allowed to do . We saw prices of materials rise. Life was very different to 2 years ago . Would we have driven into Chesterfield for Arms Forces Day? No probably ... read more
The RSM with the regimental mascot the pony
Looking at the WW1 and WW2 artifacts
Is it a spitfire or a hurricane ?




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