Walked to town and detoured through my Local Park
By kidsgran
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Hello on this cold grey St Davids day here in Wales ,has the title of my blog says on my way to town this morning I walked through the park it was very grey and dismal up there, I took some photo,s with my phone which show,s some fruit tree.s local school children have planted to make an orchard the tree,s were donated by local people who then attached label,s on them in memory of loved ones ,the school children will be allowed to harvest them when they bare fruit , they also erected bird boxes on many of the pine tree.s and wrote messages on them.In the photo of the very old benches ( I would sit on them in the early 1960.s with my two children and many times since with my grandchildren) you can see my town below through the tree,s ,there are some new paths being laid ,and the rugby post,s have seen many a ball put over with the dream of playing for Wales my son included lol .The park looks lovely in the summer when all the beds have flowers in them also there is a rose garden which I make sure to walk through it in June they have some very old roses which smell wonderful .I am writing this in my kitchen and it seems to be brightening up a bit so maybe I will go and water some pots !
PS the local school children also have a veg patch in the park which they go up with the school to plant my grandson aged 7 went with his class and came back with a lot of information and told me he was the best at weeding because he had done it with me lol.
1 Mar, 2013
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Schools seem more and more, these days, Kidsgran to get the children involved with gardening and community schemes which I think is a great thing.
The children's park/ play area looks very nice!
Sorry that your son didn't get to play for Wales but, I expect he's got over that by now..ha ha!
I hope the sun came out for you..very damp cold and drizzly here today...AGAIN!!
And all your photos the right way up.......we've got it sorted now, us IPad/GOYers!!!!! Thanks ,in may case to Flaoralhead!
1 Mar, 2013
Happy St David's Day , Kidsgran .
Is that up the Knoll ?
We have spent many an hour there when the children were small .
1 Mar, 2013
Driad I know the Knoll well, but it,s the Llynfi Valley .
1 Mar, 2013
Great that the children are involved with things like that.
Nice photos of your area.
It's been cold here today too. It's supposed to get warmer next week.
1 Mar, 2013
Hywel hope it does get warmer my heating is on 13 hours a day !! sometimes I go into my daughters house and the heating is off she says she is warm so I must be feeling my age lol but on the other hand I tell her in the "old days" you wouldn't sit a house without a fire going in the grate in the winter . I suppose it all comes down to cost I think it the tariff should be at a set price for everyone hope I don't start a heated excuse the pun debate . love your true welsh flag .
1 Mar, 2013
I remember the old coal fires. They used to be kept burning all night. They were nice but a lot of work. I couldn't be without central heating now. I always feel the cold. They charge too much though :o(
The flag is only for St David's day lol ... thank you ...
2 Mar, 2013
What a great idea to plant a memorial orchard. In Germany where my daughter lived for a year the road sides were planted with fruit trees. The townspeople were able to bid for them and only they could harvest that tree. It was used for jams, jellies and fruit juice. You have great views.
2 Mar, 2013
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Interesting photos ...
and good news about the "weeding expert" ;o)
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