0600 hrs. – Overnight gales seem to have blown themselves out and the rain has stopped too. Sky is clear and blue(ish), just faint glimmerings as the sun comes up. Everything looks washed and sparkly clean. Smells good too, a combination of a November smell of fallen leaves (beginning to rot down) and tangy salt-laden sea air – makes me want to take deep, deep breaths to absorb the quintessential essence of our good land.
Shortly Mrs. F, Jess the Lean Mean Lurching Machine and I are going out for the weekend. Not too far, but we’ve packed some essential supplies, food for the mutt, a blow-up bed for Mrs. F and a tent and a couple of stoves for me (well, along with other camping – not backpacking kit). and we’re heading to a more inland location to see our daughter and grand-daughter. I have things to test out and think about so it’s not entirely without an ‘outdoors’ theme. I hope to get some walking in too. Time will tell on that one.
The weather forecast was horrendous for this week but actually turned out ok here in South Wales. So much so in fact that I managed to get some decent walking in on my rest days…..
Hi there!
How did you family visit go? Hopefully you got some good weather.
Annienz
Hi Annienz.
Reasonable weather for mid-November. It was cold and windy but not too much rain. Weekend went very well and I even got to walk (with my Grand daughter of 4 years).
She was excited because she could ’show grand dad’ where she and ‘mummy had walked around the village’.
In fact it was a good walk – the village is well preserved from the 14th,15th and 16th century and there are a host of nooks and grannies to explore. There is also a working watermill which was operational on Saturday. We were able to buy some real ’stone-ground’ wholemeal flour and later we all made bread. Great, but terrible on the waistline!!!!
That is really cute! I can imagine the 4 year old chatter.
Such alot of history on your side of the world. It’s quite an amazing thought for us Antipodeans that people live in buildings that are hundreds of years old.
And yum about the bread – one of my favourite things to smell is that yeasty bread odour.
Annie
Hi, Annienz,
Yes, but the trouble is that many people here don’t appreciate the history. They only see old buildings and ‘ancient’ crafts like breadmaking. I enjoy all of that and passing it on. My three (now grown) children can all cook and in the traditional manner. My daughter is also a qualified chef (in Spain).