April Afternoon

Bliss!  I've just spent an hour or more sunning myself in the courtyard - there is a suntrap on the slate terrace outside the Stables.  I had 3 cups of coffee, a bar of fruit and nut and an Agatha Christie, so I was happy.   And I got my vitamin D.  In fact I actually put on a pair of shorts and stretched my pasty white pins out to the sun.  It was so hot I needed to slap on some Tesco Factor Twenty.

So glad the weather is glorious as we have a large party guests here attending a wedding at Plas Isaf just up the road.  The groom and best man stayed last night and today the family are here - David took photos of them as they set off for the wedding.  It's a perfect day for photography - the sky a cloudless blue.  Our other largish group of guests are canoeists from Ireland - competing in the slalom on the Tryweryn.


I felt as if I were on holiday myself yesterday - went up past Mold into the Clwydian range to meet a friend and fellow blogger who has an idyllic self-catering cottage with spectacular views (http://www.gwenoldy.com/).  I took a circular route and came back via Llandyrnog and Ruthin along sunlit deserted country roads, tootling happily along like a character in an Agatha Christie novel.   


From the kitchen now comes the very good smell of the beef casserole ready for the canoeists' dinner tonight so it's time to stop blogging and go and help.