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Easter Road Trip.  Wales.

25/4/2017

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On Easter Sunday we did what we usually do - wake up, have a cuppa in bed and hand out all the prezzies before sending the kids on a little Easter egg hunt around the house.  We all happily filled our faces all morning and started the day feeling very chilled out.  And half in a chocolate coma!
That all changed about 1 o' clock when the littlest monkey decided to jump down the bottom few stairs.  This is a pretty normal thing for him to do (as with most kids), this time though, instead of chuckling away feeling proud of himself, there were tears...


3 hours later we walked out of A&E with a toddler in a sling. 
With a broken collar bone.
2 days before we went on holiday.


Kids.  Gotta love em.

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On Tuesday we loaded up the car with enough luggage for 3 weeks rather than 4 days and headed for Wales.  Half an hour later, after going back home the third time for things we'd forgot, we set off again.  6 and half hours and 4 toilet stops later, we arrived.

The land of Myths and Dragons. 
And hard to read road signs.

We had booked a little garden apartment in the little seaside village of Tresaith in Cardigan Bay on the Ceredigion Heritage Coastline.  Legend says (well, wikipedia) that a King of Ireland set his 7 troublesome daughters adrift in a boat and the currents of the Irish sea led them to beach on the coastline where they all fell in love and settled down with the locals.  The name Tresaith means the Town of Seven. 

I don't know if any of that is true, but I know we had fun.  Even with our little toe rag in a sling!

Wales is beautiful. 

We spent our days travelling around the area.  We looked at castles, stone circles, burial chambers, lighthouses, abandoned buildings, wildlife and the gorgeous mountains of Snowdonia.  We ate chips looking at the sea and walked down piers.  We ate pizza at the coolest, most hipster outdoor restaurant ever.  We skimmed stones in lakes and tromped across beaches.
And every evening we went down to our local beach where a waterfall fell over the cliffs onto the sand and we stayed there until the sun went down.  On our last night we had clear skies, so we got to watch the stars appear too.

It was perfect. 

Some snaps from our trip.


We booked our apartment through Airbnb.  For some money off your first trip, click HERE.
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The Broken and the Lost

5/2/2017

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I thought I'd put a blog post together to show what I get up to in my spare time. 

I have a strong fascination with all things broken and abandoned.  I love rusty steel and twisted metal, broken stones and mossy rocks, shattered glass and age old bottles, broken clocks and worn-out watches.  I love to stand in a place where men and women once toiled and bled, the industry long since gone and their efforts forgotten.  I love the feel of walking down a hospital corridor where cries of joy and tears of sadness would never be heard again, just the eerie silence of something forgotten - maybe the occasional patter of dripping water from the now broken ceilings.  I love to sit in a chair where someone once spent the majority of their daily grind, see the random bits of graffiti carved into the desks, wondering who the initials 'JB' belonged to or whether 'Steve' still loved 'Alice'.  The sadness of some of these places can bring a tear to your eye, the thoughts of someone's job gone as another steelworks or mill closed their doors.  Some of the sights can be breathtaking too - the grandeur of the details in the building, the size of the doorways, the handwritten signs and the craftwork in the smallest window. 

So, here are a few snaps of some of the places that I've visited.  Abandoned mills, steelworks, factories, potteries, hospitals, asylums, collieries, churches, mortuaries, houses and mansions.  Broken RAF bases, trainyards, garages, farms and barns.  Lost cemeteries and junkyards.

I try to see the beauty in the broken.  The splendour of the past in the grime of the present.

Have a nosey through - someone you know, knew or loved could have once walked these halls, drove these cars, sat in these chairs and watched these clocks, just waiting for the weekend... 
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