Monday, 12 January 2015

Walking the Nile

I watched the latest episode of this programme on UK's Channel 4 last night, and found it totally engrossing. We saw explorer Levison Wood walk nonchalantly through war zones, be accosted by various unstable-looking characters, many of them armed, and pass through some amazing scenery. We also saw a tribe that lives mainly off cow's milk, and whose main entertainment is wrestling. It made me thankful that I live in a generally civilised country, with a little variety in my life.      

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Live music performance at Cardiff Central Library

These take place every Saturday (generally) at 1.00pm. Classical this time, but music varies. Or book your own ensemble. (The audience is out of sight behind the bookshelves.)

Monday, 15 December 2014

New Release

Shortly after Mike and Geraldine Baker take over a hotel in a remote and beautiful Welsh valley, a mysterious object lands nearby. Mike thinks it is a meteorite, but the thing has several unusual features. Later, Mike dreams that the object is an egg. But, as Geraldine immediately points out, when was the last time anybody saw a stone egg fall from the sky?

Gradually, however, it turns out that Mike is nearer the truth than anyone care imagine, and , for the few people living in the valley, and for the tourists visiting it, heaven turns slowly into hell...

About 23000 words
.BUY

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Monday, 8 September 2014

Mare and foal with squirrel friend

Taken today near Llanellen.  
(During a walk from Goytre Wharf to Abergavenny
on one of the most wonderful September days
I can ever remember.)

Also on video:Mare and foal with squirrel friend. 

Thursday, 4 September 2014

Trip to Bournemouth, Poole, and Swanage. 030914

 Much activity in a Bournemouth park.
 Swanage. A pretty little seaside town
and possessor of an old steam railway.

 A steam train is about to set off.

The bus is about to leave the
 chain ferry to Sandbanks.