What a weekend that was!
Saturday and Sunday was all rush and panic working from eight in the morning till eight at night and finally cleaning and vacating the house late last night.
We visited our neighbours delivering Christmas cards and saying our farewells in temperatures lower than Greenland. It was tinged with some sadness at saying goodbye to people we have know for thirty two years, but new horizons beckon and we hope that the young couple moving in today will have as many happy years as we've had.
We've cleared the old homestead of all our belongings and sneaked everything into my daughter’s house in Pontrhydyfen, where we have been given our own Granny flat on the bottom floor (hence we’ve now become the borrowers that live down stairs).
Our daughter and son-in-law arrived back home to two very inebriated new lodgers snugly seated in front of the TV stuffing our faces with bacon butty's and an empty bottle of Rioja that was gratefully donated by a neighbour on our departure.
We awoke this morning to temperatures as low as -5c, and then defrosted the car to go and hand over the keys to the estate agent, followed by last minuet shopping and hearty full English at a local garden centre. We called in to our civic centre to notify them of our new address to settle up any council Tax and complete the Electoral Roll forms. We then collected more forms to inform other departments of change of details (here we go its form filling time). We walked off the full English this afternoon by taking pictures of our new abode of Pontrhydyfen in all its winter glory.
Now it’s keeping our fingers crossed that the weather starts to get better for when I have to go and collect the RV.
Click on photo for a lager image.....
Click on photo for a lager image.....
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| Our daughters house |
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| The old Aquaduct |
On the left above is our daughters house, its seen pine end on, its to the right of the telegraph pole in the photo. On the right is the old Aqueduct from which the next pictures were taken.
Below left: the house on the right hand side middle of picture is the house where Richard Burton was born
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| Pontrhydyfen |
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| Looking up the Afan Valley |
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| Pontrhydyfen Grave yard |
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| Kay on the Aqueduct |
The grave yard is where Elizabeth Taylor wants herself and Richard Burton to be buried on her death that's if Dicky Burton's widow agrees.
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2 comments:
I finally figured out how to comment on your blog!!! Sometimes we Americans are a bit slow!! LOL! I was wondering about the cemetery pic. Just love it!!! Do you have any info on it? How old? Is it currently being used? No, I'm not weird... it is just a genealogy thing addiction that I suffer from... love of any and all cemeteries!
Hi Nancy, I asked Stuart to take that photo with you in mind!!! He thought I was a bit loopy...lol. There are two cemeteries here in Ponty. What I found interesting with this particular one is the sides of some of the graves have been built up to level them off, as they are on an incline. I will get more info and send it off to you via email. I understand where you are coming from, liking genealogy myself, and have taken many pics of relatives gravestones for the family tree......lol Genealogy is a fascinating hobby.
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