Time to catch up before September bows out!

Quite pleased to say goodbye to "summer" with all it's dreary drizzle - for the first time ever we had to take down our hanging baskets before the end of August because they were just rotting away. Here is a picture as a reminder that there was some colour in mid July, but even then the plants were suffering.





In August we said goodbye to Bella and sent her off to her new life in Bedfordshire with our granddaughters - she can be seen above with a new friend and seems to be settling well to a much busier lifestyle, we hope she will be a credit to Nantgwinau and to the Welsh Cob breed in general.


NB Nantgwinau Rebecca mentioned in an earlier post is no longer for sale.

We also have regular visits now from a family of Greater Spotted woodpeckers who have great enthusiasm for peanuts - and a squirrel one day tried to reach the feeder hanging outside the kitchen window

A very attractive young rabbit provided a diversion during the breakfast washing up the other morning, dashing about the yard with great interest in everything - Chief Washer Up had to stop work and get out the camera!

Update on the youngsters:

Cadog is now 4 weeks old, quietly confident and sure of himself - and now able to eat out of his mother's feed dish as well as grazing very competently.

Cadno at 2yrs old is doing nothing much except eat and grow, but isn't he handsome?!

Rachel now 3yrs old and taller than her mother is very beautiful and developing into an interesting character (this can be interpreted in different ways depending on her behaviour!).

Lastly Bella is home for a short break from schooling, she has proved to be quite a challenging pupil, but progress is being made and hopefully she will start some roadwork soon.

Another visit to see Bella this morning, making progress again after a bit of a hitch last week - she apparently thought it was more fun to whiz round the sand school by herself, rather than being ridden! Pictures show Cara on board and Yvonne in charge on the ground.

The journey to Newcastle Emlyn and beyond is a real switchback with some wicked bends built in, but with the bonus of some spectacular views at times. The countryside has been very lush of late, now we see fields turning dramatically from green to yellow as the silage and hay crops are stripped off and cleared away. Predominate wild flowers at the moment are foxgloves, buttercups, campion, stitchwort, and masses of the large white ox-eye daisy. Another attractive feature is small flocks of goldfinches darting out of the hedgerows as we drive past.