Evinrisca

The ramblings of a Risca born and bred, designing, photographing, walking, dog loving, Land Rovering Welshman

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Autumnal Welshies (at Ffarm Ynys Hywel Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWN5CCSo_tS/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Twmbarlwm new pond - or old one regenerated (at Twmbarlwm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVs4eohoZM6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Pen-y-fan Pond

Needed to go buy some dog food so Sue and I put the two dogs in car after lunch and set off. Lili and Owain dying to get into the water but we’re not allowed As I haven’t written here for a while I need to explain that Megan has slowed down an awful lot in the past few months (she’s 13years old) so she doesn’t always come out on our longer walks – and anyway she was fast asleep in her…

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Winter Soup Oh I do love the hearty winter soups that Sue makes - this one is potato leek and spinach - with a generous lump of stilton lobbed in afterwards. Yummy. Can feel the iron coursing through my veins now.

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Water Drops This is how the water gathers on my shed - so how come the bloody thing leaks so much?

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Negs Soaked Again

Found a box in the shed containing some old photos, negs and slides half filled with water again. I recovered these photos once before when they got soaked in the shed at Weedon House. Not greatly important photos, they’re probably saved digitally elsewhere – but I still don’t like loosing these originals.

The one lot of slides are those from the Phoenix Grand Prix 1988 – which was Schumachers…

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Buzzard’s Breakfast I often see a buzzard or a sparrow-hawk sitting on this post (at the top of the ORPA up Twmbarlwm) - he'd obviously eaten his fill today and couldn't be bothered with the claw of the shrew or whatever it was.

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Good Morning Risca Haven't done one of my old walks for ages - from Greenmeadow Bridge up to Cwm Byr and through what used to be the Darren Woods - and was greeted by a lovely sun-rise - really miss this since moving.

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Shoots of Spring The Spring shoots of the bluebells on the bank leading down into Pontywaun are starting to show through the dead Autumn leaves - and so the circle of life goes on.

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Bridge Between Two Countries

Bridge Between Two Countries

I took over 400 photos today – but they were mostly of Welsh Springer Spaniels and you can see all of them HERE

But I’m sure you’ll all appreciate this a little bit more – it’s the bridge across the river Wye at Chepstow separating or joining Wales and England.

Nice innit?

Bridge over the River Wye – at Chepstow

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Twmbarlwm Landscape Destruction There's no doubting it's deliberate destruction of a landscape and it annoys me so much that it happens regularly in our own backyard - the people who do it have no respect for their locality, no respect for other people, no respect for history and tradition and no respect for themselves or future generations.

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Snowdrops at Tredegar House Who doesn't like a snowdrop? Here's a nice crop at Tredegar House, Newport. Also - still amazed at quality of an iPhone.

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Moon over Pontywaun A quick test using my 300mm lens on Ewan's 60D out the studio window

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I Love Marmite

A great marketing ploy – a present from my beloved. But I love her more than my Marmite – honest!

(For the record I bought her conventional flowers – bargain at 30% off at Lidl’s – who says romance is dead).

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Colourful Plectrum I have other more exciting photos on my camera but haven't downloaded them yet - so please accept this quick photo of a plectrum I found last night at Crosskeys fish shop - a plucking good find methinks.

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Ynys Hywel Dry Stone Wall This wall has been many years in the making - pulled down and re-built several times as it was used for training courses in dry-stone walling - but this looks to me as though it is finished and looking beautiful.

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Twmbarlwm litter and fridge pick Our usual monthly litter pick up Twmbarlwm today - also went up to the top of the ORPA to collect this fridge and several pots of paint and other household refuse - featured in this blogs a couple of weeks ago.