Go Large!

Deckchairs come big in Aberystwyth . . . 

Re-Frigerating

Old fridge and freezer - fridge a tad on the small side (especially at Christmas) - together taking up a fair bit of room in the kitchen.




New fridge-freezer - more fridge space, smaller freezer (having to think a bit more about using up the frozen stuff now!).

Takes up less space - and the finish is super cool . . .

Pleased with it!

More Marrows

And on to the annual marrow post - missed them at the courgette stage yet again:

Goodbye TPL

It's been a while now (over ten years) since I left the University - where a fair bit of my time, as student and lecturer, was spent in the Thomas Parry Library on Llanbadarn campus.

So when it was announced this year that the University was consolidating its teaching on Penglais Campus, and relocating all library materials to the Hugh Owen Library - I took up the invitation to go along and say goodbye . . . 



It was a nice evening - saw lots of old, familiar faces, listened to a few speeches, had a wander through the stacks, the photocopying area (spent a lot of time there!), the old teaching rooms, etc.  - brought back a few memories.

End of an era - the old place (est. 1970) nearly made it to 50 years as a library of librarianship, but not quite.

Fields of Gold

Evening walk down the road - sun setting across the fields of barley . . .

Family Outings

Parents visiting for a few days - picked them up at Telford Services, then on home through mid-Wales.  Weather had finally cooled down a bit, but still nice enough for days out and a barbecue.

Outings included a day trip to Aberdyfi, walking the seafront, round the shops, fish dinner, then home via Tal-y-llyn and Corris Craft Centre.

Particularly taken with the 'Time and Tide Bell' which hangs under one of Aberdyfi's jetties.

A celebration of the legend of the submerged kingdom of Cantre'r Gwaelod beneath Cardigan Bay, whose bells, it is said, can still be heard ringing beneath the surface.

Back to Telford Services at the end of the visit - meeting up again with my sister, who took them on home after we'd all had a hot drink and a break - even Marci got some coffee froth!

Detoured our way home via Much Wenlock (in search of remembered sausage rolls - not to be found although we did have a very nice cream tea).

Summer Berries

Fruits of the fruit cage . . .  strawberries, blackcurrants, and finally the redcurrant bush has got large enough to actually produce some redcurrants!

No raspberries - but have planted some new canes so hopefully they'll take for 2019. 

There'll be no blueberry harvest this year either - it's in a pot, and mea culpa it probably didn't get enough water in this hot weather - lots of very shrivelled blueberries!  At least the bush seems to have survived now we've started watering it properly.