Cottage all tidy, everything packed (again), and we’re off … my mum and dad are off home, while I’m off to Cardiff to visit a mate via Swansea (shops! again!).

off to swansea again visiting family again 🙂

Managed to get a hold of a guy I bought some computery bits from via eBay, who is in Swansea and was happy for me to visit in person to pick up the bits, so we stoated to get them and then off into the city centre to spend cash on frivolities!! I grabbed the…

Uncle, aunt and cousins stoated over from Swansea to the cottage. see more pics

went off to Brecon today to peruse some shops, mainly Tesco for provisions, and then visited the South Wales Borderers Museum. The SWB are now the Royal Regiment of Wales, but at the turn of the 20th century the SWB fought in South Africa against the Zulus, which was the inspiration for the movie Zulu,…

All I can remember from today was that S4C, the Welsh 4th television channel, which kinda supplants Channel Four that the rest of the UK gets, show The West Wing at 11:05pm on a Monday night, instead of 9:00pm on a Sunday night like those of us not in Wales … beh.

The woman who lets out her cottage said that there would be mobile phone coverage — I can only get a decent signal for the laptop on the window ledge in the lounge. Hmmm. Reasonable for the laptop, but a bit crap if you actually want to talk to someone — and no, I didn’t…

we’ve arrived at the cottage we’ve rented for the week in Crai which isn’t far from Sennybridge — you’ve got to love any town which has an online sheep registry. Apparently, Crai is Welsh for “raw”. So there you go.

stopped at tebay for lunch — the weather has become absolutely stomping! see more pics