Long time no speak… and things have changed...
Well, it’s been around 4 months since I last posted anything and my apologies for that. The reason is quite simple, we have moved house!
After nearly 3 years of searching for our ideal home, we have finally found it! We’re now living on the opposite, east side of Wales, quite near to the border with England in a place called Llanfyllin (pronounced thlan – vuth – lin). To most people, it’s just a small village, but the locals get very upset if you don’t call it a town. It was granted its borough charter in 1293 by Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, Lord of Mechain and is one of only two Welsh towns to be so granted by a native Welsh ruler. The other being Welshpool, which is about 12 miles away,
You may also notice that my website has changed. This was more by accident than design, though I had been thinking about changing the theme for some time, as the old one took an absolute aaaage to load. I was dabbling with an alternative when I discovered it had gone live and I was unable to go back, since the old ‘Visual’ theme has been retired (i.e. no longer supported by WP and it may not work with future upgrades – thanks WP!)
This first post since the change is therefore a bit of an experiment to see how it all looks and feels. All comments and feedback welcome!
Anyway, it’s time to move on and we had no sooner moved into our new home (at the end of July btw) and it was ‘show’ time… The Oswestry Show was on the following weekend and that was closely followed by our local Llanfyllin Show.
She’ll hate me for mentioning this, but my wife entered 15 of the cakes and preserves classes and got 3 firsts, 5 seconds and 3 third prizes. She encouraged me to enter Tomos into 4 of the dog show events and out of my 3 attempts, we only got a 3rd (out of 3 entrants!) in the pedigree 12-18 month category. I therefore suggested that Jude might have better luck in the ‘local dog’ (which lives within 4 miles of the town) category and they got 2nd prize! I don’t have many photos of the latter event, but there’s a second gallery below.
Oswestry Show photos (from 3rd August 2024)
Please note that your eyes have not gone funny… I must have had the wrong setting on my camera (for the first 14 pictures), either that or it was a very steamy event! However, I think it adds a certain amount of nostalgia to the images!
Llanfyllin Show photos (from 10th August 2024)
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