Big Bang.

Today has been quite warm but with some very heavy showers.

The big bang came in the middle of the afternoon when I was working in the kitchen. It was much louder than the usual thump we get when they are blowing up old ordnance at Ynyslas. More like an elephant-sized seagull crash landing on the roof. I went outside to check if someone's chimney had collapsed but there was nothing to be seen. There's always major building work going on in the village and I was hoping that there hadn't been some sort of accident. As I stood on the terrace my next-door neighbour came out as well to see what had made his windows shake. Within five minutes people from villages all around were posting on FB asking about the bang. Eventually someone found out that it had been a sonic boom from a fighter jet flying out of Valley airbase on Anglesey.

Since today was quite grey I'm cheering up this post with some pretty snaps from Saturday's walk.

In the morning we drove to Mach to meet up in the library with our friends to practice our Welsh. Our homework last week had been to prepare to talk about our local area (village/town/county) so we went through the questions from our course books and then the rest of the unit so that we will be prepared for the next two lessons.

Then we started translating another book. This one seems relatively easy though it is written in South Welsh while we are learning North Welsh. There were a lot of new words which once we sounded them out were almost the same as the English words which produced a lot of hilarity- camperfan/campervan,  blincin/ blinking, lori/ lorries, meicroffon/ microphone, iap/ yap. That lot came from just two pages of the book. I'm looking forward to us reading the rest of the book.

We got to Mach early which was handy as I had a couple of bags to drop off at the charity shop. They were heavy as they included books and a number of board games. 

Gone now are the boxes of Monopoly, Balderdash, Pictionary and some others all of which had been well used in the days when we would have a house full of family and friends. I think the reason I'd hung onto them for so long was that I was hoping to recreate those days here. But we no longer have big family gatherings and they were just taking up much needed space. Better for the charity to make a bit of money and for another family to use them.

As usual on a Monday I dropped Pete off at the pub for his pool afternoon. With the cleaning of the kitchen now complete I have moved onto the next section of the room, (the dining area) and gave all the glassware on the display shelves a wash. The job does need doing more than once a year as the open shelves get dusty. That collection of glasses is definitely something we don't need but is just there along with a few feathers and beach pebbles to look beautiful. And why not?