Saint David's day

The Empire state is bathed in the Welsh National colours this evening in honour of St David's Day

The Orphanage

I so want to see this film.

Candling eggs

Though not quite like the above egg, three of my duck eggs in the incubator look as though something is growing inside them which is incredibly exciting! mind you some of the shadowing seen could be rings of bacteria, so after four weeks all I could have is four stinking eggs!!!

Sheffield catch ups & gale disasters

Sheffield didn't suffer the gale force winds that hit Trelawnyd last night, but it was a blustery night to go out in with Mike,John and Jane.
Mike's mum is poorly in hospital,so it was good to catch up with him,offer expensive beer and sympathy, and have a bit of a well needed laugh but laugh is something I always do with the three of them every time we meet up.
John as usual was on great form and regaled us with stories of a recent trip to Kathmandu.When on full flow his is more like Bette Bavis than Bette Davis actually was, and can "hold court" wonderfully for hours.
All Bar One as per.......service has gone off slightly which is a pity.


Came back to Wales early, and stopped at Ladybower at 8am to photograph the view which was dull but still incredibly pretty.and got back to Trelawnyd at 10am . The allotment had been "trashed" by the winds last night, and I was pissed off to see that my new feed shed had been ripped literally apart and scattered all over the graveyard with my feed buckets and smashed cloche's for company.Much of the electric fencing had been pulled around and several of the hens had escaped only to be rounded up by an irate Chris this morning.Even my warning sign up on the telephone pole had been ripped away!
The whole disaster was very upsetting! but the damage was nothing compared to the wood On Gop Hill, where several large trees had been uprooted and flung around like matchwood.
I took the dogs through the woods and it was lovely to lie down out of the wind and enjoy cloud watching, (even though Maddie insisted in sitting on my chest)

Rhythm of Life

Off to Sheffield this afternoon for my "city" fix, which will be lovely. When I was letting the birds out at 7.30 am I got to thinking of rhythms in you life( hence the great song from Sweet Charity)- I am very lucky as my life away from work has in fact a "work-like" routine and rhythm to it. Get up early,hens,ducks,coffee,housework,dogs,walk on beach,shop,(Daily post)hens,allotment,dog walk,cook,bake,walk,blog and bed.........yeap lovely but Sheffield DOES look quite exciting on occassion.........

Northern Ballet,garlic and shallots

Venue Cymru in Llandudno, generally caters for an older rather blue collar audience, so I was excited to see that the Leeds based Northern Ballet is coming to town in June with their new production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Chris is hopefully getting me tickets for my birthday , and we hope to get a whole family group together to enjoy what I hope will be a cracking production.
I became a fan of Northern Ballet when we lived in Sheffield, and friend John and I saw some stunning ballets at the Lyceum. I loved Dracula ( with a first act that had to be seen to be believed) and the very,very sexy (and sexually ambiguous) Car Man ( with Alan Vincent- he of the hairy chest in Mathew Bourne's Nutcracker pic below) Even some of the productions that didn't really work that well ( like A streetcar named desire) were well worth going to see, as certain parts were visually stunning to watch.
The reviews seem very good for Nights Dream....I do hope he can get tickets!

The weather has been quite bright and warm today so I gave up trying to have a sleep after nights and got out into the allotment to plant my shallots and garlic.

ps. he just bought the tickets!

pps. just had an email re Carman:-apparantly
"Car Man wasn't Northern Ballet Theatre, it was a company that was then called Adventures in Motion Pictures, the Matthew Bourne Company that for legal reasons is now called New Adventures".

At Last

I am working tonight so have been pottering around at home all day. Chancing fate, I have planted the first of this years crops, Early broad beans! Some tender plants under the closhes and the hardy varieties in the first vegetable patch.

My potatos will be next, but I will wait until March has just arrived before doing so, just in case of frosts.

Shallots and onions will be next and the thought of starting to grow the veg again is wonderfull.

New Series 4 Doctor Who cinema Trailer

Now I am not a Doctor Who fan, but I thought that this cinema trailer was pretty impressive. Catherine Tate is a most unlikely leading lady, but is kind of impressive in a frumpy/teacherish sort of way