Pic for Monday.

 As always wishing you all a safe and happy week.

Today's ride.

 Some pleasant sunshine when I left, rained on the way back.

1. View across the valley.

2. Mother and lambs.

3 Wrapped up to keep warm and dry.

Pic for Sunday.

 A sign of Spring at Penmachno.

Today's ride.

 The sun was shinning making for a pleasant ride, clouding up a bit now.

A dusting of snow on Moel Famau.

Looking down on the Ystrad bridge.

Pic for Saturday

 Wire sculpture at Trentham estate.

Today's extra.

 Work continues on the paths next to the bowling green and tennis courts.

Weekend pic.

 Friday 13th tomorrow so wishing you all a safe and happy weekend.

This is a selfie of me standing in the massive entrance inside a Cwmorthin slate mine.

Pic for Thursday.

 The closed up entrance to the gold mine above Glanllwyd.

The notice on the metal gate informs people that the mine is now occupied by bats.

Pic for Wednesday.

 Cwmorthin Terrace, once miners homes.

Today's ride.

 Ready for Spring.

Pic for Tuesday.

 Farm buildings in the valley.

Today's ride.

 A pleasant dry morning at 7 degrees.

Snowdrops in the Ystrad woods.

Pic for Monday.

 Firstly, wishing you all a safe and prosperous week.

Tree in a sea of corn.

Today's ride.

 Intermittent sunshine at 11 degrees, quite pleasant.

Tree and shed, still standing.

Pic for Sunday.

 Mow Cop castle, a folly.

Stoke on Trent.

 Trentham gardens.

 

 

Pic for Saturday.

 A cottage ruins.

Early morning.

 A large bank of low cloud in the Vale this morning.

That time again, wishing you all a great weekend.

 Something very different for Friday, a glass sculpture.

Pic for Thursday.

 A place to rest, Bodnant gardens.

 

Spring is on the way.

 

Today's ride.

 Low cloud and a dusting of snow.

Pic for Wednesday.

 Cattle in the mist.

A minor fire.

 Today's excitement. A minor fire in the cooking compartment of the microwave,.I think food get's splashed on the mica cover on the waveguide port and it ends up flaming.  Don't panic, replacements are available on Ebay and easily fitted, make sure you  get the correct size.  

Mica cover.

Chicken

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy82lk40wpo

Question, is the chicken used in supermarket ready meals coming from the same sources?

Pic for Tuesday.

 The 2017 Steiff Collection.

Pic for Monday/

 Being Monday, wishing you all a safe and prosperous week.

At work on the Thistle.

Today's ride.

 The Ystrad road is closed. Welsh water are working in the field next to the Ystrad bridge.

Pic for Sunday.

 Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday.

Today's ride.

 A detour to Brookhouse weir today, a choice, colour or black and white.

Extra for Saturday.

 Some nice daffs to end the week.

Pic for Saturday.

Cottage by Cwmorthiin lake, once used by quarrymen now used by fishermen.

Today's ride.

 Afternoon sun at the bridge.

Pic for Friday.

 Yet another week is flashing by so it's time to wish you all a great and safe weekend.

Furnaces at the old Blaenavon iron works.

Rest in peace lovely April.

 https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/april-still-missing-eyes-law-33323474

Pic for Thursday.

 I took this several years ago when I had good knees on a walk along the Ffestiniog railway.

Morning Mist.

Today's ride.

 6 degrees and sunny, very pleasant.

Went up through the Ystrad woods to make sure my fave tree had survived another storm. On the way back captured some daffs showing Spring is on the way. 

Pic for Wednesday.

 Secret falls at Penmachno. The coloured water is caused by the peat in the soil.

From my archives.

 An example of slate fencing above Penmachno. The ruins of the miners village are in the background.

It had a shop and school, all located above the snow line made for a really hard life.

Pic for Tuesday.

 Looking across the lake to Tanygrisiau hydroelectric power station,.

Today's ride.

 Cold or not I decided I needed to get out, it actually wasn't too bad.

Clear view upstream.

Back in 1967.

 While in the RAF I was sent to the USA to learn all about the Phantom missile control system and on my return would become an instructor. While in the states 3 of us decided it would be a good idea to visit the white house. After a walk we came across this  dirty scruffy looking building and came to the conclusion we must be in the wrong area. To make life easier we decided to get a taxi and requested the driver to take us to the white house, he did this and took us around to the the front of the scruffy building we had found earlier!😄

Pic for Monday, wishing you all a great week.

 The original Ffestiniog railway track at the side of the lake.

Today's ride.

 As the sun came out and it's warmer than yesterday I got out for a ride.

                                                                    Myddelton college.

                                                                   In the late morning sun.