Ravilious-esque landscape
If ever a photograph looked like Eric Ravilious had painted it, it is this one. It was intended for next year’s TPAS calendar, but I think I already used a similar scene for 2024. It is on the Abergwesyn mountain road out of Tregaron in Ceredigion. Take this road and hope you don’t meet a timber lorry coming the other way because you’ll have to reverse for miles. But do go, the scenery is stunning. As are the telegraph poles that line the first 10 miles or so (as far as the famous remote chapel of Soar y Mynydd.
Merlin App
I’ll see your Chaffinch and hooded crow and raise you a Corncrake and one Sand Martin. (Just down from Farrens’ Bar, Malin Head, Donegal)
Eigg Nog
We recently undertook an expedition to the wee small isles in the inner Hebrides. Starting on the Isle of Eigg but also taking in neighbouring isles of Rum and Muck. These have been on my must visit list since I was about 8 years old.
I didn’t expect to but there was some amazing vintage telegraph poles to discover. And to save me the energy of re-typing it all and to save the internet space for having the text twice, why not read the full story by clicking over to my sister site The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society.
Here are a few photos from the trip anyway. Click to enlarge.
Rum from Eigg
Today’s picnic site. Laig bay, Eigg with Rum just across the sound
Signs that tell the truth #14
As bins go, it really was rubbish.
BIAFF 2025
If proof were needed that I can and do scrub up occasionally… Another great weekend of films – four sessions per day, non stop Friday until Sunday evening. Gala dinner on the Saturday night and all in vibrant Brum. Oh and a load of very worthy winners. See you next year.
Offbeat Folk Film Festival
This is me, right. Or rather it’s my film “The Pole Liner”. So if you’re in Peckham on 14th May… Specifically, SET Peckham SE15 4NP. And in case you missed it, here’s the fillum itself: https://youtu.be/0LumR2QMd8g
*** STOP PRESS *** The Pole Liner was described as one of the stand out films of the festival. Just sayin’
Custodians of the countryside
MY ARSE
This is the river Aeron. The entire bank for half a mile is choked with black plastic. And the other pictures are from two different nearby farms, south Ceredigion. I cannot think of a single valid excuse for this. Click images to enlarge – if you can bear to.
Goldcrests
There was a gold crest lek in my garden this morning (south ceredigion). They danced and flicked their tails for half an hour or so, oblivious of me. In case you can’t see it, the third one is prostrating itself on the top of the stone.
My Unique Century
Distributing T.C.’s book finally, after two years of effort. It looks, reads and feels fabulous.
