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| Gop Hill (centre) taken from Liverpool Bay. Trelawnyd lies in the shadow of the Gop which is around 800 feet above sea level |
She asks
.............."Now I know you live in the middle of the Welsh Countryside but when I have re read some of your older posts you very occasionally make references to visiting the beach.....are you close to the Ocean?
can you clarify things for me"
Warm Regards,
Beatrice M. Fickle (Ret)."
Beatrice It does sound confusing I agree as when I post photos of the village, the whole place seems completely landlocked. Trelawnyd is only perhaps a mile and a half South of the sea. In the satellite photograph below which shows Liverpool bay Trelawnyd is just inland of the centre peninsular
The coastal town of Prestatyn lies between Trelawnyd. There are some lovely beaches there but I tend not to go in the summer months as the beach car park is extortionate and the nearby Pontins holiday camp is filled with a great number of poor people!
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| Liverpool Bay , which is the body of water which enters into the Irish Sea |
Hi John.....I just read your post with the satellite photo of your area so with coffee in hand I decided to look it up on Google maps. As I was looking I noticed the name of your little village so zoomed in and had a little 'walk' around the streets...isn't Google grand! Anyway...I noticed a church so I continued on ground level past the church lych gate?...and around the corner down the narrow winding road (I see chickens in the churchyard) and lo and behold what do I see on the left.....critter houses...buckets with water...veggie gardens with wire fences protecting them...at least one white chicken...a yellow chicken...what looks like a turkey and what looks like a little black Scottie dog sitting by a little green building and a man with a rake or hoe in one of the little gardens and what looks like a couple of wheel barrows laying on their sides. The road is called Cwm Rd. Well I nearly spilled my coffee I couldn't believe it....this looked like YOUR 'allotment'?! I decided to see if I could find a few pictures on your blog to see if I could recognize some of the buildings and what do you know....in the picture of Winnie and Jo and the magpie ducks I see a cottage...partly stone and partly white stucco in the background and then in one of your newer posts there's the picture of Camilla with badger and I see the metal gate behind them that I saw as I followed the road on Google. In the picture of the Allotment 2009 in your side bar realized this was taken from the upstairs window looking across the road into the allotment with the tent pitched right where the metal gate was. Don't be afraid John
....I'm not a stalker I promise hehehe but I can't tell you how excited I was to come across this on Google. I felt like I was right there walking that narrow winding road and then it all seemed so familiar...the pens and the fences and gardens and critters. Well now I know I'm right.....I just looked back at some of your earlier posts and I came across one that I missed called "Everyone has a film in them" and at the bottom I see the picture of the village and there written on the picture is ''my field'! I guess if I had been reading your blog more regularly lately I would have known for sure this was your field...duh!Anyway John...I enjoyed my cup of coffee wandering down your little road and admiring your field and cottage. I had it pictured all wrong in my head....I picture the field running behind your cottage and the church running along side you on the other side of a stone fence. Now I know exactly how things line up. How lucky you and Chris are!!!
Anyway...I hope you, Chris and the critters have a wonderful day!
Maura
Pontins? Those wretched poor people get everywhere!!
ReplyDeleteYou don't mingle with poor people?
ReplyDeleteDamn those poor folk, wouldn't ya think they'd stay in the pit until tis dark ;o)
ReplyDeleteI can vouch for that being a lovely coastline John - but not when the crowds are there. Best visited during Autumn and Winter I think.
ReplyDeletePoor people? At Pontins? You have got to be joking. I thought they spent their holidays in the middle of the road in a cardboard box.
That's it! I'm moving.
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ReplyDeletenot if I can help it
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This is a good geography lesson and I know what you mean about being so crowded in the summer. I lived in Torbay in England from the age of 15 to 25, and you never begrudged them their holiday but my Dad's favorite saying used to be, "It's lovely to see them come and it's lovely to see them go." Traffic for such a small area used to be a nightmare for the locals, not to mention getting into the pubs :)
ReplyDeleteIf you came to Brighton you would think your beach quite peaceful.
ReplyDeletePoor people ??
That's a bit condescending isn't it?
Briony
You seem to have so much in Trelawnyd to make life beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love the beach in late September and October. There is such serenity there at that time of year.
You live near a Pontins? Really John, I thought better of you. Poor people, let them eat...
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ReplyDeleteof course
lol
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John you will be pleased to know that Tristan is rather more decent now!! He is wearing an old sports jacket and sports cap with a draped vintage Union Jack trying to preserve his modesty but still no trousers for his poor nether regions!
ReplyDeleteJo xx
It's Briony John, you made me sound like a rice dish. lol
ReplyDeleteI so love comment threads, Briony's last comment made me chuckle ;)
ReplyDeleteOh John Gray, I do love you. Busting me out in my secret place - the one so secret that it won't allow me to respond to you there. Numb bits indeed. Thanks for the encouragement.
ReplyDeleteChav heaven = hell.
ReplyDeleteMy Welsh destination of choice is due West from me - Barmouth. Almost a straight line from my house.
It's also a straight line from most of the W. Midlands which is why most people in Barmouth have a Brummie accent.
I suppose the North of Wales is inundated with Scouser's in summer?
So that's why I haven't seen you to say hi-di-hi!
ReplyDeleteI zoomed in on you with Google Earth last year! hee hee hee.. Beware of flying goats! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha ha ha ha Poor people!!!!! xxxxxxxx
ReplyDeletechris
ReplyDeleteyes many scousers but oh so more mancs and scots!
Pontins have gone VERY downmarket
John, You best be less often out in your skivvies doing chores. Unless of course you are after the Google Map attention. Not sure how much Google updates their Satellite pictures but perhaps a sign in your garden would be fun.
ReplyDeleteSomething about poor people of course.
I agree with Donna John...you best be careful about what you wear out in your field....you never know who's going to see you ;) Who'd have thought a person could go for a walk around a Welsh village on Google and come across the sight of someone you 'know'! Amazing. Maura :)
ReplyDeleteWe live in cottage/ski country. Every season ( the rich folk come at summer weekends too) the tourists make the journey to our area.
ReplyDeleteWe call them 'smog gobblers'...they come up here for fresh air. They are easy to spot...clean cars!
Jane x
I think they call that cyber stalking ;)
ReplyDeleteHoly crap. It really is a small world. Better watch yourself. No telling who might be watching.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about how small Wales is. We could fit 11 Wales in my baby (by Oz standards) state Victoria.
ReplyDeleteWhat my husband wouldn't give to live next to a church yard/cemetery like that!
ReplyDeleteI used to live near a Pontins Concentration Camp once too. Used to help a lot of them escape through a hole in the fence after dark. Never made any money out of it of course - they were always far too poor. Just felt so sorry for them, that's all.
ReplyDeletePoor sods, never forget the ecstatic looking expressions on their faces once they'd crawled under the wire. They were always so grateful as they set off blindly into the cold, dark, wet of night.
Happy days.