Showers.

After a wet morning it's been a mainly dry day with a few light showers.

My back isn't too good at the moment and I've been feeling quite weary so I didn't go to the zoo and have even pulled out of choir tonight. Instead I got on with some small jobs including painting the shelf battens and cleaning the mildew off the legs of a wooden stool and giving it a polish with Brywax. I did that outside as the wax has quite a strong smell but of course no sooner had I finished than another shower arrived.

Last night I discovered that as long as I include some street or house lights I can get my camera to take photos of the stars. (I've tried the night setting on the camera without much success so far.) I'd gone out to stare at the world when I noticed what looked like a line of lights which appeared to be moving. My first thought was one of the Starlink arrays but even though it was very faint it didn't appear to be in a straight line nor were there enough lights. Now I'm wondering if I was imagining the movement and it was actually Betelgeuse or some other constellation.

Here are a few photos from our trip to Mach last Monday.

One of the most impressive reminders of the town's medieval origins is the Owain Glyndwr Parliament Building. Originally built in the 1500s it was extensively rebuilt in 1900s. Until we moved our venue to the library we used to meet in Café Alys on the ground floor. It's now the Café Owain Glyndwr and we treat ourselves to lunch there at the end of most terms. 

The Royal House, which sells delicious food, was built around 1560 with many later additions over the years right up to the 19th century façade. Only a few houses away stands the town clock built in 1874. It was paid for by the townspeople to celebrate the 21st birthday of Viscount Castlereagh. A bit of major sucking up to the local gentry?

 

Being a prosperous tourist town there are a number of antique shops and more to my taste at least five charity shops which are always worth a visit as they often have some very good stuff in them. Two other shops I also visit are a large old fashioned hardware store where you can buy items in ones and a gift and card place where has a large range of really nice greetings cards.

Somewhere I would like to shop at is Red Shoes where you can buy made to measure shoes. Those would be perfect for my broad feet but they cost at least £1,000. A fair price for the work but out of my league.