Well, I'm back after a bit of a lapse of blogs!! Duty called in terms of looking after my Mum who was due to have a cataract operation, unfortunately it was postponed just as we were leaving for the hospital!! To take her mind off it I took her for a tour around the Cotswolds, stopping at Stow, Burford, Upper and Lower Rissington. Such a wonderful part of little ole' England. The following day we went to Henley and back to Fawley (my previous blog!).
I'm just returned from a few days in a rather wet and soggy Wales. Ho hum all good fun though and I do enjoy meeting the characters in the pub. There's the local builder who is full of stories of dead rats in the back of vans, houses falling down after one blow of the hammer, bodies under floorboards. All in jest I hasten to add!! He's a real joker. Then there's the local farmer; he's recently found 'love' and is the 'talk of the village, so I am'. He's heading off to America for a 40 days and 40 nights tour with his ladylove, but I had to give him such advice and Dutch courage as he's getting anxious about leaving his family: that's his four dogs!!
No self respecting pub woul be complete without the village comedian, of course. What a hoot he is, all beard, dogs, beer after beer as his stories get funnier and longer and longer................... 'it's a shame for William isn't it, anyone called William is unlucky' 'Why?' I asked, thinking of my own son whose middle name is William, 'well' he replied, 'everyone's always going around saying FIRE AT WILL' the old one's are the best!!! Boom Boom.
On Saturday evening I attended The annual Gwyl y Golau - Dyfi Light Festival in Machynlleth. The excited faces of the children was wonderful to see and made me long for the days when my own children were
small and we used to participate in such lovely community events. The festival was followed by a fabulous fireworks display.
'Ooh' 'Aah'
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