Saturday 26 January 2013

Reasons to be cheerful (S.A.D.) part 3


W+D-d\Tq
   MNa         =  The 21th January, blue Monday or the most depressing day of the year. Yeah! Sez who?

For the second year running we were in Wales, for the S.A.D.est day of the year. This time time the venue was Cwm Pennant. One of, if not the most beautiful valleys in Wales. So beautiful that Eifion Wyn wrote the poem Cwm Pennant.

On top of that it was SNOWING.











The softer side of  Moel Hebog


Fawr, Photo taken from Bach



The weekly shopping Cwm Pennant style




Only another 1/2 a mile to go


Happy or sad, dark or white, yin or yang you choose.

Mladic by God  speed you black emperor( a bit dark)  vs  Paul Oakenfold's Starry eyed suprise (happy choon)

What were you expecting Ian Dury or New Order?  Cool tunes but a bit too obvious. 

                                       



                                                          

Tuesday 15 January 2013

Mawl

Billy checks out his new xmas lightsabre. He has not been quite the same since we bought him a red collar and he watched the Phantom Menace. 


In a far away universe a long time ago (1977), queuing up, to see the first Star wars film. It blew my 10 year old mind. A swashbuckling adventure with added spaceships and stormtroopers. Wow! Skywalker was a bit wet but Vader, he was a supercool sheriff of Nottingham x10. 






Fast forward to the phantom menace. Rose tinted glasses had made me forget these are cheesy kids films. I was disappointed. It was worth the trip to the pictures though, Ray Parks was stunning as Darth Mawl, truly menacing with some top wushu moves. This guy knows his Chinese martial arts. 


Thursday 10 January 2013

Vitamin D


The sky is clear and there has been a light frost. In the pre dawn glow I can see mist in the valley. Time for a breakfast run, fortified with vitamin D.






Billy and I wern't the only ones tempted up Bunkers Hill by the sunrise