Yak blessed me with an invite to his place in Wales - so I grabbed a ride with
Surfr. Literally as soon as we'd paid the toll to enter Wales, it started pissing down. It's like we threw a coin into the rain machine
We arrived at Jeff's place before the man himself, so we wandered about looking for beasties. None evident in the middle field; a wander to the top field proved fruitless; but upon return to the middle field we spied Alice and Robin. They scampered over to the fence for greeting scritches, then must have telepathically summoned the rest of the Beasties, for they ALL came a-running from the bottom field. It looked bloody funny, the herd running towards us like that
Anyhoo, the Yak returned home eventually...
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My favourite pic from Yak's place is this one of Yak and Ginger. Look at the love and joy on
both of their faces
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After we liberated Vindy from the kennels (I was surprised, given how muc stick she gets on the Furoms, how passive she was), we toddled into Carmarthen for a curry. A curry at Yak's local, yay! And I had a hotter curry than Yak, double yay!
Then off to The Mason's for drinkage. Oh dear, I got horribly pissed. Again. Drinking Cointreau, I was accused of being a big girl by Dave ("Off moi bleedin' flowers!"). So I asked for a B-52 instead. Dave and Elaine's ignorance of this common Western beverage led to me pouring a bunch myself - ad one pound a pop, we should have stayed for many many many more
Back to Yak's, and some nutzoid cabbage before kippage
In the morning, more beastiness before toddling into Carmarthen and onwards to Bath - via Swindon
Jedburgh picked me up, then out for more drinkies with
Jedburgh & Phillipa (both llovely people
),
Jimaroid and (quite unexpectedly)
Bluey:
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A bit more curry (4 in 4 days!
), then up in the morning for a Jedburgh-guided tour around Bath. Unfortunately, the shit English weather I was expecting had apparently all been reserved for this single day - windy, rainy, icky. Still, the city of Bath was gorgeous, even amongst all this crap weather... a bit of blue sky even become apparent:
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Strolling around, Jedburgh spied some of the best graffiti ever...
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("Adam And The Ants"
)
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The photo
everyone tries to take when they're in Bath...
And then on to the Roman Baths. What a disappointing tourist trap; 9 quid to look at some stones which *may* have been from some enormous Roman thingy of such vast proportions that it regularly eclipsed the sun. Or something...
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Back to Casa Jedburgh, where my unbeaten run of curry dinners was broken by fish'n'chips. In paper
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Tez ("The Beast"), Jedburgh, Phillipa
Then off back to OXford, lugging Yak's old Falcon 030 for markie, for the last leg of my trip...
