Going Gently

WI Comedy Sunday

Don't you just love "Middle England"

- Susie Blake continuity announcer (Rundown)

The weather is awful.......it has been raining buckets since dawn. I walked the dogs (I couldn't bear Chris' moaning) and got soaked and then sorted out the birds ( and got soaked again) so have come back to bed with my trusty coffee to trawl YOUTUBE. forgive the flit down 1980 Victoria Wood classics but they cannot quite be beaten!

Victoria Wood shoe shop sketch

My FAVOURITE Julie Walter's comedy sketch!!!

Two Soups

My second favourite Julie Walter's sketch

10:10 video

I saw this this morning Is it me, but does this radicalisation of anti global warming advertising make anyone else sick and angry? The need to shock when it comes to "good causes" is wearing a little thin with me......I don't need to be shocked, or manipulated or patronised when it comes to understanding how the world works.....I can, in general terms, work things out for myself........I don't need Richard Curtis blowing up kids to give me a wake up call................

No Sign Of Sheep

I finished a stint at the hospital by 4pm and was disappointed when I got home because the sheep had not been delivered! The lady that wants to move them on, has not quite sorted out the relevant paperwork as yet, and as I was adamant that all the I s would be dotted and the T s crossed they will remain with her until everything is sorted.

I have not had time to sulk, the ducklings needed cleaning out, so into the garden they went for the very first time.......the hysteria, as you can see was almost palpable!

Tonight is Strictly Come Dancing and a bag of chocolate buttons night

An Autumn Trip Around Trelawnyd

The change from Summer to Autumn is almost palpable and today the village is shrouded in mist and rain as the fields seemed to have changed from deep green to a slight muddy brown.
When out walking this morning I decided to "snap" a flavour of Trelawnyd as winter approaches, and got bloody wet for my sins!.I also effectively Superglued my right foot inside my wellington as I put on the boot after "fixing" a hole in the upper by filling in with too much adhesive!
After some painful pulling and grunting ( and NO farting) I managed to free myself from just a little bit of skin.

Anyhow the following photos are literally a brief snapshot of Trelawnyd on a somewhat wet and sleepy Friday morning

This is the view from the Gop overlooking the Northern part of the village. Trelawnyd nestles in the Gop's shadow and occupies the Head of a small valley which drops down towards the flood plain and eventually the sea. Trelawnyd is around 600 feet above sea level

The below photo is the main village proper

Trelawnyd School was completed in 1860...apparently the children would be reprimanded and punished if they spoke Welsh on the school premises and in the school log book on the 19th of January 1866 actually documented this fact. At the end of the First World War, the school bell was rung that loudly that eventually the bell rope snapped!

The Church of St Michael and All Saints seems to have not changed at all when compared to old photos from the late 1800's. Hughie and Ivy, the Guinea fowl can be seen picking pests out of the newly cut grass.

Well street leads down to the Village Pond ,the site of the old public well and the Still House, which is one of the oldest houses in the village dating from the 1700's. The Still house had, is was said,two springs which rose in the cellar, and was known as a beer making house.

London Road, showing the old cottages that line the street, and the old post office.. The house just out of shot to the right used to be the Central stores and Cafe at the turn of the century. In the rear of the shop ( down well street) there used to be a bakehouse where the villagers used to bring their own bread to be baked for a penny. Down well street there is a small cottage which is called "Baker's cottage"
At the end of the road, you can just make out the sturdy chimney stack of the village pub The Crown

This shot is of the stone cottages up High Street. These were known as lower Bonc terrace.The impressive stone houses to the left of the photo is the former "Plas yn Dre", This was a former grammar school set up by a John Wynne in the late 1600's

This is a shot of the High Street from the the top. Plas Yn Dre and Bonc terrace are situated beyond the hedge of Bryn Hyfryd farmhouse

Down Chapel street is the Ebenezer Congregational Chapel. It used to be a market Hall in the 17th Century and was converted into a chapel in 1701

Behind the Chapel used to be located a row of terraced cottages long since gone now. In their place is a series of gardens and allotments. This allotment is run by friends Sandra and Rob, and makes mine look rather amateur and scruffy

And finally I had to photograph the Village Memorial Hall. The Hall was built by the Greek Consul of Liverpool, a Mr M.A.Ralli, who lived in Mia Hall (Just North of the Village) Today the hall is the centre of Village activity as it houses the friendship club, Community Council meetings, youth club, and bingo. It is also hired out to the likes of the Flower Show committee, the Village Male voice Choir (they rehearse here every week) and even for strange animal mad villagers who run "how to look after chicken" courses

Friends

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Best Friends

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." ~

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Friendship

"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies." ~ Aristotle