Showing posts with label Trains. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Lockdown day #51

Today I spent most of the day planning a holiday I may never take.  The plan is do a road trip of West Wales, visiting castles churches houses and railways.

Some of the places I would like to visit include:
Pembroke:

Cardigan & Cilgerran:



Haverfordwest:



St Davids:


Tenby & Saundersfoot:


Carmarthen:


and other places.

I also did a Malware check (which took over an hour) - and I am free of malware - hoorah.






Thursday, 23 April 2020

Lockdown day #38

Today is St George's Day - and so I am wearing my green top from the 2002 Commonwealth Games for the Welsh team - with a dragon on it.  You can't have St George without the dragon, now can you?  This is a picture from the 2002 Games - and it is not me - but it shows you the design of my top today.

The morning started with a discussion group on Zoom - I am slowly getting to work my way round this new thing (as are many of us I expect).   I am still without a camera or a microphone, but have found the online chat function, so I can communicate.

I have read an online book - "Lancashire United The Fleet 1900-1981 Second edition" (the second edition bit is important - it is a special .pdf version for the days of the Corona).  Fascinating read.

Then I visited the Portico Library and viewed their new exhibition, online, entitled "What is it to be here - Colonisation and Resistance"  Apparently today is the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the first colonialists in Australia.  I am pleased to say the exhibition looks largely at the viewpoint of the original people of that continent.

It being Thursday it was the "Clap for Carers/NHS" night.  I didn't clap but had a red bell and played that.  There was quite a cacophony round here.

I rounded off the night listening to a strange piece of music - Pachabel's Canon like you have never heard if before - played on hundreds of train horns.