Larry the lamb

The weather has been really odd recently. Take Saturday, woke up with not a cloud in the sky. As it was warm and sunny we decided that a drive into the Berwyn Mountains was in order with a walk somewhere along the way. We took a different route taking the A5 to Cowen before turning off. We wanted to do a walk near a village called Llandrillo and but as soon as we arrived there was dark clouds overhead so in a quick change of plan, we took a short stroll around the village. This village seemed almost perfect, perhaps not that pretty, but it had everything. A local shop, church, school, small river going through it, bridge and little lanes. The houses were all different, not much uniformity to them which made the village more interesting. From little cottages to big bungalows.

After our walk we hopped back into the car and drove on the B4391through the hills and ending up Oswestry.

This morning again it was sunny and I have been meaning for a while to see the lambs in the field near the Marina, so we packed up our camera and our walking boots and headed down to the A5 and found a footpath which took us right into a field of sheep . Sadly the lambs not seem that engaging or wanted their picture taken. In fact we had to wait ages in a muddy wet field to take these ones. Their mothers did seem rather protective of them and there was lots of baa-ing from them when we arrived. We carried on through a number of fields and across some woods which housed a number of rabbits who also did not what their photo taken.

We have just now returned back from an afternoon drive to Ellesmere where we stopped to walk around the town and the lake. We came accross Shropshire's oldest pub (picture). Ellesmere seems to be getting ready for the tourist season, new signs posts, parking clearly displayed and the centre of Ellesmere seems to be a lot cleaner and brighter since we were last there .

It is now raining, damp and miserable again, but I don’t mind, as long as it clears up by March when we set ‘sail’ again. Just looked at my blog stats.. I have had 18 people from Belize look at my blog this week. Now is now isn't that just wierd?