This beautifully kept shop frontage is in Llanidloes where I was yesterday. I couldn't resist taking a photo. I stopped on the way to visiting a good friend who lives nearby.
This is the Old Market Hall in Llanindloes, and dates back to the early 17th C.
I thought this was AMAZING! You can lean out of the windows to pick your runner beans!! So much grown in pots and tubs in a very small space in a town. Tam has been mourning the loss of the (wildly overgrown but wonderful) garden with a house they offered on but went to a cash buyer. It probably wouldn't have been passed for a mortgage though as it had been empty 20 years or more and was rife with damp etc. They have offered on another - about the only house which isn't on a main road/in the town/hideous and on an estate but it has a tiny back garden - this may give her hope.
The grand more modern Market Hall.
Part of a row of pretty late Georgian/early Victorian cottages.
One of the quilts on display in Minerva Arts. I volunteered there for a little while, but as Keith's health got worse and I had to stop. It was nice to pop in and see their current display.
One of a pair of whole-cloth hand-quilted quilts made by the same lady. Beautiful craftsmanship.
This comment was the same for both quilts.
There will be more photos of quilts tomorrow.
I had a lovely visit to my friends place and horsey-cuddles with her mare (the little mini-Shetland promptly buzzed off to the field the moment he came out of his stable, insisting he'd been starved!
I took a belated birthday present for her, and baked a cake - as I always do when visiting or when we have guests. I made my Manderin Orange cake and just had a slice. I usually just bake for others - I'm fat enough already! The worst insult you can give me is to refuse a piece of my cake!!
Off to do a big more gardening now that the three horse fly bites I acquired the other day have calmed down. 3 at a time is quite enough!
The view near by friend's home.
