David's blog

I went for a walk the other day, and for once, it stayed dry. I headed to the part of the village with farms, crossing the River Cynfal. There’s a well-known old house there called famous locally and beyond as the birthplace of Morgan Llwyd in the 16th century. I’ve been there many times since it’s only about a mile away. This time, I wanted to take a short video for social media, as these little clips tend to get lots of views and fit my theme of interesting local spots. The walk takes me down to the river, across it, and through a field, where I filmed my short video. That evening, I got a message saying a photo of me had been posted on a Facebook page, accusing me of snooping around their house—which would have been impossible given where I was. They were basically making up lies about me. At first, I planned to ignore it, but when the accusations came, I felt I had to act, so I threatened to involve the police, and the post was taken down. It’s sad that such important properties ar...

I usually don’t leave the village on a Sunday, but even if I wanted to today, I couldn’t because of the weather. A lot of snow fell overnight, which someone had warned me about, but I dismissed it. I was wrong—it’s stuck, and it’s pretty thick out there, the thickest I’ve seen in years. Lately, it feels like something is keeping me in the village. On New Year’s Day, there was no public transport, which is silly in a rural area, and then the day after, there was a crash. Yesterday was fine—I managed to get some shopping done—but today we’re back to no bus service. If the sun doesn’t come out to melt it, things might be the same tomorrow. At least the snow looks quite pretty around here—this is a view of my back garden. I had planeed to get some lunch from the pub but they are not making any due to the weather, so will have to do my own...the sun has appeared the snow might get melted now...there is more snow on the way apparently, I went out for a walk its nice to see the kids out sledg...