The photos are from a recent walk down along the bottom lane. That was before it got hot, and I mean HOT. Forecast says it will be 27 deg. C today (that's 80 deg. F). Tomorrow is even worse - 86 deg. F (30 deg. C). As an asthmatic, I struggle in the heat due to humidity. I shall stay indoors.
Yesterday was bad enough (only 77!) and after following the shade around the garden - finally getting to grips with the weeds and grass where it shouldn't be - I decided I would make a start on mowing the lawn. My goodness, it might just be walking up and down pushing the mower, but I was soon in a muck sweat without a dry hair on my head. There's still some more to cut, and the wee bit of hay meadow at the front has gone over now and needs cutting.
Bramble flowers in the prettiest pink. There are something like 200 different species of brambles.
Though you can't see any traffic on it, the flattish area half way up the photo is where the main road between Builth and Llandovery runs. At weekends it is busy with motorbikes heading towards the West End Cafe in Llandovery.
A Brimstone moth.
We didn't see that many ploughed fields when we lived in Carmarthenshire. In the Cothi Valley, the land was considered to be Hill Farming land - pasture rather than arable. Mind you, they wouldn't be sewing grain crops this time of the year so perhaps this will be a winter fodder crop for sheep.
The world and is wife have been cutting hay this past week (and who can blame them?) Here is the view from the guest bedroom window, looking across towards the distant hills.
Well, the past two weeks have been somewhat fraught here. Unfortunately Tam's boyfriend contracted Covid from two silly girls he worked with (one had been heard to say she couldn't see the point of Social Distancing . . . as she's that stupid, she probably still hasn't made the connection). Another person in the office (an anti-vaxxer) also contracted it. I wonder if he's changed his tune yet? Anyway, having seenhim over the weekend, Tam was obviously right in the firing line to get it and has had to quarantine.
Her boyfriend was quite poorly, but has now tested clear. Tam has spent the last 12 days in her bedroom, eating her meals outside (apart from wet days, when back to her room again). If she left her room, it was mask on, and she used the en-suite bathroom. She did a lateral flow test every day for the first week, but it always came back negative, as did the PCR test she had done. Even so, she was unwell - tired out mainly, but with some symptoms of Covid, which came for an hour and then her immune system dealt with.
Now, hopefully, life can return more to normal, but with Covid cases shooting up again, we're not going far afield.
Tam wants to go somewhere for a walk today - somewhere shady I think, so I will look at the map.
Have a good weekend all.
