Talbennyhall’s Weblog

Following my last miserable missive, I feel I should let you all know that life here in Talbenny can be very rewarding! Look at the weather we are currently enjoying; wall to wall sunshine and it’s still only mid March, Daf’s are blooming and so are the flowers! The great Welsh wall builder; PJ (that’s not to say that there is a Great Wall of Wales, just that there is a builder of walls who’s quite good at building walls and he is Welsh) anyway he’s just finished building us another load of wall, with a little help from his young apprentice, who is six foot five inches tall and knocking on forty……..kids!!!!!!!!! Visitors to the cottages are going to be thrilled when they see the architectural delight created, or else!

Part of the the new landscaping scheme has required a load of gravel. Have you ever tried to assess how much you need to cover a certain area. I didn’t need to measure , I’m far too experienced and can do it by eye? So I had 16 tons delivered! ……. Anyone want 6 tons of gravel surplus to requirement? It would help us to park our cars on the drive!

Another happy note, the fish are back in our lake.  No they haven’t been away on holiday, it’s just that we had about 1000 fish until about 2 years ago when an otter turned up and thought he’d found his equivalent of Ceri’s cafe in the village, and scoffed the lot (we thought )  Obviously when he was down to having to chase the last few tiddlers he was off to pastures (or ponds) new.  Well the good news is that those few tiddlers are now growing up and doing what lady and gentlemen fish do in the privacy of there own lake, and having more tiddlers!

So there you are life ain’t so bad here in Talbenny, lets hope that things are even better next Saturday evening………………..COME ON WALES

They’re at it again, those nameless, faceless grey people who have decided that ‘they’ know what’s best for us mere mortals.  Just as I’ve trained my little body to accept the occasional glass or two of red wine (‘they’ said I would live longer and healthier!) ’they’ now say it will kill us.  The Scots, who are not known for any particular alcohol over- indulgence, nor even have any national related alcoholic beverage to boast of, are now having an extra tax imposed to deter them from buying too much booze. Britain already has the highest tax on alcohol in the Universe and beyond, so what’s that going to do, fund the ever growing ‘Department for the Prevention of  Playing Conkers without full body armour’?

Now I don’t smoke and I don’t want to, but tobacco is a huge source of tax revenue. So when ‘they’ decide that you can’t smoke in the privacy of your own carzey because of the smell, from where are ‘they’ going to finance that ever expanding organisation of ‘Language and Culture control’ a tax on the freedom of speech?…………..HEAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!