Blogs from Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 9

I found myself walking up a street at Coedpoeth . Too early for the hairdresser . If I went in now I would have to hope she would let me in , sit in a corner without any magazine to read and not drink a welcoming coffee. It feels as if we never will return to magazines on the shelves to read whilst waiting for a hair cut . Nor a coffee to pass the time away. I decided to walk up the road toward the War Memorial and the Carnegie Library and Snooker Room . Coedpoeth has a worn down feeling . The houses were once grand . Now the doors lack any patina and the stone is dulled by the blackness from years of mining dust , iron deposits and grime . I wondered ... read more

Day 547 of lockdown in its various forms . We have arrived home and things are returning to normal whatever that is . My walks continue despite not finding anywhere new to explore. I cover old ground . The road has reopened to Overton . The track along the riverside is open again . Natural Resources Wales pulled their fingers out and got the work on the riverbank completed in very quick time . What was assumed would take 8 weeks took a little over 10 days thanks to prompt deliveries and excellent weather conditions . There is a peace and quiet these days around the lanes . The birdsong is over and there is just the odd bird like sound from the fields plus the sound of the ducks on the river . The great ... read more

"Are we there yet?" " Are you getting up yet ?" " We have a long ride ahead of us " We felt a bit awkward this morning trying to put off telling Sion that we were not there yet nor were we going to have a long ride ahead of us . We had avoided the awkward discussion with the sheep about the intended trip to France . Phone calls to Eurotunnel had been done under cover of darkness when little ears were not tab hanging . We did not want to disappoint Sion but there was no way around this one . We knew we were going to have one very unhappy sheep. By 6.00 we should have been on the road heading around the M25 to Kent to pick up the train to ... read more

"A rainy day is like a lovely gift. You can sleep late and not feel guilty" Those are the words of Elizabeth Howard . On a summer morning the sound of rain is welcoming . It is a lovely gift that we appreciate as the water butt fills or we walk in the rain getting only ever so slightly wet . In the winter though the sound of rain is less inviting . More of the opportunity to stay in bed and not bother with the day . With Autumn just around the corner we surely will get more of these wet days . Days where rain on the motorhome roof would be welcoming . Snugly inside , heater on , coffee bubbling away and a good book to read . We still have not heard ... read more

6,200 steps - that is what it took to walk from home to Millionaires row, back round the estate , past the school , up the river , through Friars Fields garden and home I set out this morning before work with the intention of not walking for an hour but waking as many steps as I could . I had read that if I walked down each and every street in the village , through every alleyway I could clock up a mile walk . So today my plan was to see how far I could get . Let's be fair about this . I never made the hour walk nor did I walk every street . I managed about half the village keeping to the one side and the outer limits . I imagined ... read more