On the slopes
We decided to tackle the Sugar Loaf today. Being the lazy walkers that we are that didn’t mean walking all the way up from the A40 – it meant driving […]
Category Archives: This small corner of Wales
Hobbit Hills
The road goes ever on and on… I wasn’t going to post anything quite so soon after the Shrewsbury trip but…make hay while the sun shines, they say. Or: get […]
Pancakes!
February is good for two things only: the Six Nations tournament and pancakes. The rugby kicked off last weekend and was what we’ve come to expect; frustration as Italy so […]
A Welsh winter
Some people would have you believe that the Welsh weather is never very good. Ha! How could they say such a thing? How could anyone imply that this land is […]
Burning the Sugar Loaf
The last time Lizzie and her friends stayed for a weekend they spent an hour or so discussing where to go for a walk. After looking through the various books, […]
Hedgerow harvests
I like to eat. And I like to cook. I haven’t always – when the children were small and I was working full-time I loathed the very sight of a […]
Crickmas is coming
So December is finally here and now we can legitimately get into Christmas mode! On Tuesday, the first day of the month, we officially hung up the Advent tree on a door […]
Black Friday, Cyber Monday
And it is written that in the kingdom of Great Britain, people will shop until they drop. And so, my friends, we come to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s […]
Trauma in the garden
The scarecrow’s head is coming off. At least it looks that way to me but Mr B reckons it’s not and it’s just that his chest has sunk a bit. […]
Waterfalling
Wales is a very watery country. No news there, for those who live here nor for the less fortunate ones who don’t! The country is surrounded on three sides by […]
at home in the hills 