Saint’s day
A couple of weeks ago I was complaining about February, wittering on about the weather and what an awful time of year this is, and just look what’s happened…the back […]
Tag Archives: History
Crosses, bones and bridges
Moving to the country two years ago after decades of living in Cardiff brought all sorts of challenges, as you’d expect. One of the first came the week after we’d […]
Lady Sybil’s hand
I was walking through Crickhowell recently and paused to look at a tourist information board, not expecting to see anything I didn’t already know. Then I read the following: ‘Lady […]
A time to plant and a time to…wassail!
I’ve been living in ignorance. No great surprise there, maybe. Specifically though, I’ve been living in ignorance about Wassail. I always thought it was something to do with Christmas and […]
A diversion…
It’s a sad fact of life but the most awful things happen at this time of year; at every time of year, truth be told, as I know from the […]
at home in the hills 