Sunday 5 December 2021

A small "ta-da" moment

 The new header shows the very bottom flanks of Carneddau, which we can see from here.


I decided to crack on with our bedroom again yesterday, and so cleared out one corner, painted the dado rail and the skirting board, and then set to with the beautiful wallpaper I bought back in late spring (Dunelm).  I wanted something which was a dichotomy to the sky blue above.


The paint above was patchy in places so I gave it another coat (up as far as the painting) and the right hand corner totally.  I need to go along with a very small brush to make it even along the rail. (I'm a perfectionist).  The bit (below) where there was a shaving light needs another coat too.


Doesn't it look tidy?  This was before my bits and bobs went back on the chest of drawers and Keith's everyday clothes on his old Windsor chair.


Back home, late afternoon, after going to Brecon Militaria Fair and absolutely FREEZING as there was no heating in the stone walled market building.  It was lovely to see old friends though and it cheered Keith up no end.  


A close-up of the hillside in the photo above.  It's to the left of the Quarry at Llanelwedd.


On the way back from Brecon, I pulled into the layby to finally get some photos of Aberedw rocks, where Tam and I intended to explore this summer.  Then she met J and has been away every weekend, so we've not had much chance.  Perhaps in the spring we can get up there.




My head was full of beautiful descriptions of the scenery as we drove home, but those have fled and I'm too tired to try and recall them.  I intended to concentrate more on writing once we had moved, but life has gotten in the way.

A new book started today, a re-reading of Phil Rickman's "The Heresy of Dr Dee", which I can heartily recommend.  I hope his new book is out soon - after his stroke we fans have had a long wait but it's at the publishers now.  Any other fans out there (I think you are RR?)



20 comments:

  1. A nice but of decorating there.
    Brecon market is chilly at the best of times!
    Aberedw rocks look interesting. What are they, geologically speaking?

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    1. I felt so sorry for the guy who is always right by the main radiator, so came dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and thin gilet. He was SO cold, poor man.

      Aberedw rocks are Carboniferous Limestone (so next year I'm looking forward to finding some beautiful wild flowers which love limestone.)

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    2. That is interesting. Lumpy bits here tend be red sandstone, coal measures or igneous.

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    3. I'm looking forward to exploring. I do miss the chalk downland of Wessex though . . .

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  2. The corner of the room looks very m'dear, I too am a perfectionist when it comes to such matters, a trait that I have definitely inherited from my father ("if a jobs worth doing it is worth doing well). The countryside where you reside is very different than the 'sharper' hills in North Wales but no less beautiful.

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    1. Thank you John. I can't wait for it to be finished but am not looking forward to several coats on the newly plastered wall above our bed. A scratch coat and then probably two in blue. I too know that saying about"if the job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."

      Softer hills here indeed, but the ones locally I am already so fond of.

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    1. T'other side of the river from where they do their workouts Tom.

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  4. What pretty and eye catching wallpaper. It looks wonderful against the lighter blue.

    God bless.

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  5. The wallpaper is so beautiful.

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    1. I just had to have it. There is a similar version in a yellow ochre I like, but perhaps that's too much of a good thing to put it in the Hot Pink Bedroom . . .

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    2. I vote yes, it is exceptional and the ocher will look different paired withe pink.

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    3. Worry not Lizzy, all the pink is going. Any pink with ochre - totally yuk! I will have to paint over with white first to get rid of it, and then paper/add some probably yellowy paint.

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  6. Painting is a time-consuming and meticulous process. I'm never quite satisfied--always seems some flaw shows up as light comes in at different times of day. After two years in the house there are several little dings or scrapes that need touch ups--and I procrastinate.
    Re the photos: early winter light has its own strangely subdued quality.

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    1. It is a job which has ALWAYS had my name on it. Keith is very slapdash and sends me into orbit, so of course, I get to do it as I can't The dings and scrapes on the stairs here from the removal guys annoy me daily but it is a BIG job to paint the entire wall as it goes up a heck of a height - too tall for me and my ladder.

      The winter light can be amazing - driving home from Carmarthen recently the low sunset cast a rosy glow over everything but I could NOT stop to get a photo of any of the fabulous views.

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  7. Decorating is looking good :) Yes am a fan of Phil Rickman :) I've started re-reading the Merrily books just finished the second! I've uploaded first Dr Dee onto my Kindle as I haven't read that before.

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    1. Thank you. Have you read The Bones of Avalon? That's the first Dr Dee book of Phil Rickman's.

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  8. Yes I have got Rickman's new book on my list, listening to them audibly though sends you off to sleep. They come in as 20 hours of talk often.

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    1. It says June 2022 for publishing. Gosh that is such a long wait on top of the several years we've already been patient.

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