Another Year Coming to an End.
18th December 2022
What a cold spell we have been enduring of late. Everything is frozen, my garden ponds and my elevated bird photography pool are solid. Every morning the birds are queuing up to be fed, the Robins are taking food from the feeders as they were being filled. It is really tough for them during these long winter nights.
Susan and I have been out walking around the local area and there have been some lovely views in the surrounding countryside. Up in a local forestry there have been some severe Hoare frosts.
On the hills the grasslands have been covered in a combination of ice shards and frozen snow - a real winter wonderland.
The Camlais brook which drains Mynydd Illtud a raised area of common land near the village of Libanus in the heart of the Brecon Beacons is frozen solid.
However, it is over for the time being as the rain has set in and as another year draws to a close my attention has now been drawn to the Xmas period. The last presents have been bought, finishing in a very busy Abergavenny yesterday – absolute mayhem in the town’s car parks. The smaller members of our family are full of expectation and it’s great to see them so excited. I have made my Xmas list out and it was posted last week - I hope the postal strike doesn’t affect it!
On a more sombre note though, we all need to spare a thought for the less fortunate amongst us during this time of celebration and happiness and think a little less of ourselves. My thoughts are for those families affected by that dreadful tragedy in Solihull - Xmas will never happen for them again.
Finally I would like to wish all the readers of this Blog and their families a happy and safe Xmas, because basically that’s it from me for 2022.
Normal service will resume in 2023.
Best wisher to all.
Steve
Susan and I have been out walking around the local area and there have been some lovely views in the surrounding countryside. Up in a local forestry there have been some severe Hoare frosts.
On the hills the grasslands have been covered in a combination of ice shards and frozen snow - a real winter wonderland.
The Camlais brook which drains Mynydd Illtud a raised area of common land near the village of Libanus in the heart of the Brecon Beacons is frozen solid.
However, it is over for the time being as the rain has set in and as another year draws to a close my attention has now been drawn to the Xmas period. The last presents have been bought, finishing in a very busy Abergavenny yesterday – absolute mayhem in the town’s car parks. The smaller members of our family are full of expectation and it’s great to see them so excited. I have made my Xmas list out and it was posted last week - I hope the postal strike doesn’t affect it!
On a more sombre note though, we all need to spare a thought for the less fortunate amongst us during this time of celebration and happiness and think a little less of ourselves. My thoughts are for those families affected by that dreadful tragedy in Solihull - Xmas will never happen for them again.
Finally I would like to wish all the readers of this Blog and their families a happy and safe Xmas, because basically that’s it from me for 2022.
Normal service will resume in 2023.
Best wisher to all.
Steve