Tenby

Beautiful, scenic skies over Town Beach at Tenby today.

Although it looks deserted, there were a lot of folk making the most of the glorious sunshine that kept coming from behind the clouds and a small child was having her first paddle in the pools left by the outgoing tide. We went for a pub lunch afterwards. A lovely morning!

Picton Castle Gardens

After all the wintry weather we have been (and still are) having, it is good to see that spring is just beginning to show her face in the Gardens. We met with members of the Garden Club and the Head Gardener, Roddy, for a walk around to see what was coming to life.

Witch hazel.

A beautiful clump of extra large snowdrops that are only found in Picton Gardens.

The skeletal remains of last summer's hydrangeas.

Some Recent Local Walks

We went walking with some visiting friends to Freshwater East, Lydstep Head

and Castlemartin recently.

Precarious climber at Castlemartin!

The force of the wind at Lydstep Head

Freshwater East in the sun.

SNOW!!

I know you have seen it all before, but we were away during the Big Freeze, so it is all a novelty to us. We had quite a blizzard as we drove out in the car to collect our motorhome from her MoT this morning. However, when we walked in to the village to get some shopping it cleared for bit and looked quite picturesque.

Begelly roundabout

Begelly roundabout

Our newly acquired terracotta cat can't quite

believe her transformed view!

The front drive doesn't usually look so pristine!

Holiday - Snorkelling at El Cotillo

I always take my snorkel with me when we go to Fuerteventura. Our favourite area to visit is El Cotillo and the lagoons, on the north west coast of the island. This year the water was glass-clear and I had a wonderful time swimming and snorkelling. Then I remembered that my little digital camera could take photos under water!! The following are the results :-

I think these are bream. They were the most prolific with their

bright yellow eye surrounds

Not sure what these are, but they would come round my feet and

give a sharp nip on my ankles if I didn't watch out!

More of the pretty bream plus one or two other species.

When I got this on the computer I found I had a mysterious visitor.Look in the left hand corner. Can anyone tell me what it is? Doesn't look like an octopus tentacle, but might be a water snake.

These 'fairy-like' silver fish were everywhere and these were
around our feet in the warm tidal pools at about 6/8 inches deep.
Magical! Everyone should snorkel in shallow water.

Holiday Snaps - Fuerteventura!

Food and Drink

Tapas Lunch

Salt-baked local fish with Canarian potatoes and mojo sauces

Morning coffee in the Campanario, Corralejo.

Return from Holiday - Happy New Year!

In case you're wondering where I have been, its very simple. We have been on holiday in the sun, sea and sand and warmth of Fuerteventura, while you have all been playing in the snow! We had a rude awakening on our return to pick up the car after, like so many others, our flight had been delayed by 7 hours!

From one extreme to the other!! All in the space of 4 hours!!

Back to washing and ironing now. More pics later!

That's Better!

After all the rough weather, we were glad to find Tenby and the harbour tranquil in the sun on a glorious Sunday morning and had a good walk round the town, Castle Hill, Town Beach and South Beach.

Ready for the next trip out!

View from the harbour across North Beach

Harbour rust.

Town Beach and South Beach were quite busy, with folks out and about for a breath of fresh air after all the rough weather of the weekend.

Short Mat Bowls

We have spent our day short mat bowling in the Pembrokeshire Short Mat Bowls Annual Rinks Competition (a fours competition) for The South Pembrokeshire Shield, at Heatherton http://www.heatherton.co.uk/ . We put our short mats down on the main long mat indoor rink there and had eight mats out today.

Our team, from Llanteg, won the first match of our three, but then lost the other two and so did not progress on to the second round. We played (nearly) our best, but it was not good enough as there were some very good players attending today. So it was an early bath for us! Our next Heatherton competition will be the Annual Open Pairs Competition for The Joan Proctor Memorial Shield in December.

If you are interested in finding out more about short mat bowls here are some links to help you :

http://www.shortmatbowls.com/ , http://www.welsh-shortmat-bowls.co.uk/ , http://www.esmba.co.uk/ ,

putting "short mat bowls" in any search engine should give you plenty of information.