Trip to Goodrich Castle

Civil engineering :)

Our trench arch septic tank soak away system developed a bit of a blockage in one of the arms. This is what takes the liquids from our sewerage system and drains it underground so it slowly perculates into the soil under the wood where it is rendered harmless and useful. The blockage wasn't serious, but when you have a JCB why not fix it asap?

Digging out the trench - very tight in amongst the trees and I acted as banksperson to Compostman driving the JCB ( I do drive it as well!)

Uncovering the trench under the protective slabs

Clearing the blockage and then putting it all back together

Probably would have cost us a few thousand pound to get this done AND they would have wanted to clear fell the trees to get to it. So good that we can sort stuff like this out for ourselves :)

Wales day 4

 We set off after breakfast to a nearby Shire Horse attraction as both of us love horses. It was a really good place, despite the dreadful weather.

Gentle giants
















We had a bouncy wet ride around the farm in this carriage :)

We then decided to go and try to find a stone circle we had visited the last time we were in this part of Wales. Despite driving rain and low cloud I had a look at the OS map and identified where I thought it might be

And we found it!

You can see how very very wet it was :(

At this point we were drenched despite waterproofs and boots so headed back to the hotel.

Unfortunately that evening Compostgirl developed a very upset tum and we had to go home the next day a day early. Shame, both because she was ill and because as the weather turned absolutely glorious for the rest of the week.

Wales, Day 3

Today we went to Castell Henllys

Compostgirl decided to have a go at the sensory trail :)

Then needed to wash her feet! Fortunately there was a handy ( or should that read footy?) stream

Me, by the Sacred Spring

We made some crowns

Compostgirl by the offerings people leave at the Sacred Spring.

The top of the hill and the  reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses.

 It came on to rain so we sheltered inside one and had a lovely chat to another couple.

There is now an excellent visitor center at the site where we had a yummy lunch and bought some things from the shop.



Afterwards, it was really raining hard but we decided to carry on to Llangranog, to the beach.

My paternal family come from here and I spent many happy days on this beach as a small child.

It was very very wet and windy, but we had fun!

Wales Day 2

This was the evening meal we had in our hotel in Solva :) Was excellent :)

Sat morning, very stormy, Solva harbour

Very high tide!

We went to see a friend and then drove up the coast, stopping at St David's, before getting to our hotel for the next few days. Very nice room and very friendly people running the hotel :)