Sunny Spring Sunday

A Sunny Sunday afternoon, prompted us to head out to our local National Trust property Llanerchaeron to check out the Spring gardens.  A newly opened bridge also led us over the river to some woodland walks - with lots of bluebells:






Spring was in further evidence in the farmyard:




There is something just sooo cute about piglets . . .

They'd also given over an area of the walled garden to a (very muddy) pig pen housing some more grown-up specimens, who were having a whale of a time snouting their way through the mud.



The ducklings on the lake were giving the piglets a run for their money in the cuteness stakes mind you . . .

Swans and Shakespeare

Well as you may have gathered there's some belated blogging going on here. There'll be no weather for last week as we weren't actually in Wales, but travelling round the country.

We saw Swans in Welney . . .

and Ducks in Ely . . .

and strange signs in Stratford-upon-Avon . . .

Waiting is apparently prohibited on 'Even Dates' - but why hanging around on a corner of the pavement in Stratford should be such a heinous crime is anyone's guess! We were careful to move on quickly - didn't want to get locked up on the night we had tickets for Hamlet.

Here the question was 'To Wear a Beanie Hat . . .

Or Not To Wear A Beanie Hat?'

Not sure it's quite what the Bard himself would have expected, but very good - David Tennant made an excellent Hamlet!