Twould appear I had a bit of a lie in. Seven ey em and I’m out on the patio with a cup of tea. Looks like the weather has turned. It isn’t oven roasting temperatures anymore and looks like rain is going to be on the cards at the start of the week. Summer is over in the UK for another year and it is not yet June. It is still a nice sunny day mind you and I am sat outside in my pajamas but do also have my thin leather jacket on.
Off home today. Will be great to see THG and I have some books to read and information to process following my visit to the LlGC in Aberystwyth. In particular I have five pages of diary entries from 1744 and 1747 to try and transcribe. The handwriting is particularly hard to read.
Nice breakfast out at Milkwood yesterday with the girls and once we’d waved goodbye to Ann, Sue and I went on a jaunt to Llaniltyd Fawr. Bought four books (for the price of three) from the second hand bookshop near the church. Interesting volumes. All relating to my interest in Carmarthenshire during the 18th century. One was about the Bristol shipping industry at the time which obvs ain’t Carmarthenshire but is the port through which farm goods were shipped to London and other markets.
Dropped by Barry Island where I blew a quid on the slots, had an ice cream from the caff that Stacey worked at in the TV series (the ice cream wasn’t kept cold enough and I had to eat it with undue haste before it melted on me) and purchased a kid’s fishing net for two pounds from a shop in the arcade on the prom which will be used to dredge the lake when I get home.
Finally stopped by a pub called The Captain’s Wife further along the coast on the way back to Caadiff before going straight to The Corp and thence an Italian gaff called Calabrisella for dinner. I had lobster linguini which is exactly what I had a couple of Sundays ago in Sorrento. The Sorrento version was really good and the chef at the place in Cardiff didn’t do a bad job on it.
It’s been both a productive and enjoyable two and a half weeks away but I am ready to go home. Two funerals to attend this coming week!