I'm in the Holiday Inn Manchester west from Saturday. I hope to get there by 12 if you need me before then let me Know.

Dai

Next week I will be away for a fortnight.

Mrs Red & I will be going campering in Welsh Wales. We will mostly be pottering about somewhere along the coast between Cardiff and Rhyl.

Suggestions for things we should see & do would be most welcome.

I hope you are well Tom.
I am glad you have decided to holiday in the principality you will feel very much at home as i think half of England is here on holiday as well! The only problem with the grockles is when they pay there £6.20 to come in to Wales they leave the ability to reverse a car in the booth with there £6.20.

To the mater at hand were to go in Wales! I see the Cement man sent you thirty miles inland when you said you going around the cost of Wales he has a point Lake Vyrnwy is a very nice spot and worth a visit.

My first recommendation is  St Fagans  open-air museums and Wales's most popular heritage attraction. It stands in the grounds St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth. It has a working 18th century smithy a woollen mill and many other attractions

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/


Next the Glamorgan coast line from Cardiff to porthcawl a great place to walk this web site is good http://www.glamorganwalks.com/nashpoint.htm


Then if you pop in to Pembrokeshire the coast between Tenby and angle is a nice walk too
 

You start here
Tenby

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there's stackpole and the greengate and St Govans chapel

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you may see some off these


and watch where you park
http://youtu.be/YyQAS-cmhWY
(note the cattle don't notice the noise)

and this is where Harry Potter and Robin hood were filmed


and around the corner you have this!




I hope this has been some help.
if you and the good lady fancy a beer if your around the cardiff area give us a shout

Dai

Tom what have you slumped to!

Hi Tom
It was good to see you on the weekend, i have just had to put a report together to explain why we can't supply some types of produce on time to supermarkets and found this out about the weather in march and thought you might find it interesting. It illustrates just how severe this spell of weather has been for Central England. (CET  = Central England Temperature, which probably has a centre point around Leicester someplace, so representative of your part of the world really).

1. The coldest March with 1892 since 1883
2. The coldest March CET mean maximum on record. (Since 1878)
3. The coldest CET mean maximum for a spring month on record.
4. The joint 5th coldest CET mean minimum for March on record.
5. The 6th coldest CET month in the last 25 years
6. The 5th coldest CET mean minimum in the last 25 years.
7. The coldest second half to March with 1883 since 1853
8. The first time a March has been colder than average January and February in the same year since 1786
9. The first time a below average March has returned a CET colder than the previous winter that was also below average since 1962

no wonder we have a late spring.

Dai

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Reason for alias: may name in David llewellyn

Age: 43

Occupation: Agronomist

Location: South Wales

Dream Job: Agronomist

Person you would be reincarnated as: Thomas Jefferson

Fave comfort food: beef carpaccio

Imaginary super power: The ability to make things disappear

I'm sure that all of those soldiers being killed must have a direct correlation to Nottingham's legendary ratio of two women for every man.

!

No idea, but possible, I suppose.

I think the myth comes more from the Nottingham lace industry when there were over 110,000 women working in Nottingham in the 1860's
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3173748.stm
I hope you well tikay
dai

Hi Tikay this is of the Washington Post facebook page you may have seen it. It sums modern life so well.
I hope you are well and you have a prosperous new year.

Dai

 
“A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people.

The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?”

+1

Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar

Great pictures and sentiment, the name alone is something to be proud of

I don't pass much comment on Blonde but Read Lots of posts but things like this give me a good feeling about the country i live in.

Dai

Hi tighty tikay
Will you be able to buy in on the day? and how many levels of late entry will there be?

Thanks

DAI

Finished day 1b with 244,000 chips which I am pleased with being one of the 87runers out of 520 making day 2.  Now we start all over again tomorrow with the blinds at 3000, 6000 ante 600. I hope I have some more run good for day 2 

Dai

The Best of luck at DTD to day Tikay.

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lol, loving the write up Tighty

^^^^THIS^^^^^

He won a Vegas package tonight in the Priority free roll on Sky Poker

Congrats mate!

THIS