This rather splendidly threatening sky was encountered on the Llandovery road yesterday, as Tam and I headed towards the Irfon Forest for a short exploratory walk.
Looking across to the Eppynt range.
It was a short walk (just about 1 1/4 miles) starting at White Bridge, through the trees and beside the river.
We got back to the car before it began to spot with rain, although there was thunder and lightening (about 10 miles away) as we walked.
This is a good swim area - it's called the Wash Pool, as it's where they used to wash the sheep before shearing. This practice continued long after it was necessary, but the worry of losing 1/3 of the value of because of the fleece being unwashed was a worry. Nowadays, when farmers are paid less than 50p a fleece, some farmers burn the fleeces. When you think - England's wealth was born on the back of sheep farming in Medieval times. Nowadays a ball of good wool is as much as 10 times the cost of the entire fleece! Crazy.As you can see we did get some rain, but not for long enough. Overcast here today and a little rain overnight.
Today a local company are coming to sort out the wasp nest. Money well spent. It became a priority as yesterday we also had a visit from the carpenter who is going to do our sash windows (cords need replacing). He is quite possibly going to slot us in later this week (it's just a day's work) and it is hardly fair to expect him to work beneath a wasp nest.
I'm not feeling my best this morning (hence the short post) as I slept badly so I'm back to bed now.
