Barbara Thompson

Steve and Sheila drove us home! We spent a delightful morning with more poached eggs ala Steve (using eggs laid by Henrietta and I-can’t-remember-but-it-seems-like-it-was-an-M-name in the back garden). Deon, Sheila’s son, came over for a marvelous visit. When we last saw him, he worked in a bank and part-time (independently) as a book editor. He […]

I slept all night – first time since I got to Wales. Yay! Steve cooked me a perfect poached egg for breakfast and it was delicious. Sheila and I headed out to do “Click and Collect” (picking up the online grocery order), then met Keith and Steve in a parking lot downtown Aberystwyth to wander

We took the train to Cardiff, then transferred to a different train to Carmarthen. The guy across the aisle wasn’t wearing a mask, even though it is “required”. Oh well. This train only had two cars and after a few stops, it was very much filling up. The only two seats left were next to

We decided to have fish and chips for lunch. I went along to pick it up, even though it was raining. I grabbed my shopping bag to bring it back. Bringing your own bag doesn’t seem to be a thing here. Everyone seems to just get plastic bags when they check out; I do often

In January 2020, Treorchy won best high street in the UK. Woohooo Treorchy. We live on the high street, kind of at the end, (the end of Treorchy. As mentioned before, the street itself goes on and on. The next town is Ynyswen. It is pronounced some way. It used to have a Burberry factory)

Happy St. David’s Day! St. David is the patron saint of Wales and today is his day. Around a long, long time ago, St. David had a good idea when the Welsh were fighting the Saxons and suggested the Welsh wear a leek so they could tell the good guys from the bad guys. They

Again. It seems like forever since the rainy times, actually. Today is just rain, not RAIN, but we’ve nowhere to go and nothing that needs being done, so we are in for now. Keith was working before 8am and has a 7pm meeting, so it is a working day for him. Neither of us maintained

And then we were dead. Okay. You already guessed that was hyperpole, because I am writing this. Man, we are tired, though. I found a hike called Pen-pych Circular (on Pen-pych Mountain – capital M Mountain. I am not sure why that is significant, but Keith just said it to me, so I am saying

We trained to Cardiff. It took an hour and we were in a big city. I was delighted to find an Upper Crust sandwich shop in the station. We’ve found Upper Crust in most UK train stations we’ve visited and their simple ham and cheese sandwiches are terrific. We walked down the pedestrian thoroughfare, munching

When Mervyn drove us to the bus last weekend (Oh, wow. Was that only last weekend?) he pointed out a former colliery (coal mine)(pit) that has been turned into a museum. He worked in the pit there for 32 years and said he loved every minute of it. Since brass bands started with coal miners