Brecon Museum

 This is a two post day because I have been having really annoying McAfee pop-ups which I tried to sort out through settings, but think I pressed something to do with the cookies, which have made signing into my blog difficult.  Eesh.  It can't be fixed until Tam is over next.  Just checking to see if I can access photos and no, I can only see the number of them and not what they look like.  

I have had to do the first room just from counting and comparing to my photos on my phone.  You will get the idea though, and these stunning love spoons must have been so cherished through the generations.

A lovely Welsh dresser with various dairy and kitchen bowls made from Sycamore (which has a natural disinfectant), and a spoon rack bottom right.

The links of the chains for these love spoons etc are all carved from a single length of wood . . .

Such a beautiful sampler sewn by Mary Thomas, age 17.

Miniature furniture, beautifully worked.  Young men had such wonderful skills making treen pieces like these.

Sarah Jones clearly had wonderful needlework skills, despite her young age.  She was taught well.

This is Mary Lewis's work, also aged just 10.

I took lots more, and really loved seeing the ECM's upstairs, which include the original Neuadd Siarman's stone.  I was talking to the chap on the till in Aldi, and he had never been in there and had zero curiosity about it.  I guess that's why he works in Aldi . . .

Hoping Tam can help me put my computer to rights . . .  I am cross with myself for even trying.  Not sure if I can reply to your comments at the moment either, as several attempts have not been posted.  Sorry.