It's been a mild and grey day. The ground was wet in the morning so we must have had rain in the night but the day has been dry. Driving home in the afternoon we could see the hazy outline of the sun trying to shine through the clouds and blue could be seen through a few gaps in the clouds but for the most part it was a wintry sky with a touch of sea mist.
Since we'll be having a break over Christmas we met up again at the library and made good headway with the next (and final) unit in our folders which is mostly revision for the exam. Then we carried on with the book we are reading. Between the four of us we can translate almost everything without having to resort to a dictionary or Google translate which is good progress from the days when we had to look up several words in every sentence.
Afterwards we had lunch at the Caffi Owain Glyndwr. Even though the building needed a lot of restoration a hundred years ago I still get a real kick out of going upstairs with the old stone walls and arches originally built over 600 years ago. For lunch I had lentil and bacon soup. It was home made which is always nice but because I rarely use any salt in my cooking it tasted way too salty for me. Peter enjoyed his festive (turkey) pie which he had with chips and beans. He was going to have turkey at the dinner do that got cancelled due to the storm so that made up for it a little bit.
It was a bit gloomy but I did my best to take photos of some of the decorated shop windows in Mach. Mach is quite a prosperous town and the shops and their displays are a reflection of the well off (I'm guessing from their clothes and cars) plus the not so well off bohemian people that live in the area. Not much plastic tat in sight.
Nordic socks anyone?
The charity shops are good too.
PS- here is a FB reel that I've just come across. It introduces Christmas words in Welsh and was filmed in Mach. You may spot some of the shops shown in my photos and the 'big candle' and the 'snowman' are in the café we had lunch in. (If there's no sound turn on the speaker in the top right corner.)
This was my haul from the charity shops. The ceramic glazed sphere is a match to a pair of much larger ones I have in the back garden. A bargain at £3. The little blue glass bottle has joined the other blue glass in my study. There's a lot of blue glass around if I wanted it but I'm very selective about bringing new stuff into the house. The book of walks looks useful and the Grey Rabbit book has some lovely illustrations which I may eventually use to make Christmas cards. That is if I can get over the horror of chopping up a book even if it was only 10p. And the bag of glass pebbles, (£1.50). I spent so long scouring not only the charity shops but the ordinary shops looking for some before I bought some on-line for the glass in the blue door. If I'd have got this earlier the pattern might have been more creative/ random. I've already been out and filled in the rest of the gaps with some of today's pebbles. Now I'm looking around to see where else I could stick some pebbles.
I also baked another Bara Brith and made some Rocky Road to take to choir on Wednesday. We will be staying an extra hour for a little bit of a party after singing. As I wanted to drizzle white chocolate over the Rocky Road I carried on and made some chocolate 'bark'. The swirly pattern looked better before I threw on the sprinkles left over after my Christmas baking.
After having lunch out neither of us want much tonight. Instead we'll just have a sandwich in front of the tv.
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