Just Nat: Hugh Grant

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Which One Would You Choose?

Today is a Very Important Day in the UK....it's the General Election! We get to choose which of these three chaps' parties will be in charge.....

David Cameron (Conservatives), Nick Clegg (Lib Dems) and Gordan Brown (Labour - currently PM)
aka

The Devils You Don't Yet Know or the Devil You Do?
or maybe...
Speak No Evil, Smell No Evil, Think No Evil?

I'd rather be voting for another 'David'....the Prime Minister played by Hugh Grant in "Love Actually". At least he knows all the right moves to get a party started.....

Still, at least we do get a choice here. If my life had continued on another path in another county, come election day I'd be faced with this unpalatable option....

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

A Welsh Weekend

Monument to Llewelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan at Llandovery
Read more about him HERE

Years ago I watched a film with the longwinded title "An Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain"...a sweet but slightly boring tale set in 1917, about two English cartographers (the pompous Garrad and his junior, Anson) who arrive at the fictional Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw ("Rough Fountain" in Welsh) to measure its "mountain" – only to cause outrage when they conclude that it is only a hill because it is slightly short of the required 1000 feet. The villagers conspire with Anson (played by Hugh Grant) to delay the cartographers' departure while they build an earth cairn on top of the hill to make it high enough to be considered a mountain.

This film was forefront in my mind this past long weekend in Carmarthenshire, where, without wanting to make a mountain out of a molehole, I was slightly disappointed to see what in my book would be hailed as hills, but are most certainly mountains to the fiercely proud Welsh. Very beautiful, nonetheless!

It was a lovely, relaxing weekend of long walks and overeating. The weather was better than we'd hoped for...it did rain (a lot!) but somehow we managed to avoid the odd deluge and hail storm with impeccable timing and even enjoyed a few hours' sunshine. Our base was a cosy cottage with log stove and beamed ceilings, the perfect place to return after some pretty strenuous hiking.

We saw ruined castles, sheep, wild ponies, sheep, goats, sheep, a cave, forests, sheep, rivers and waterfalls, sheep and lovely stone churches and cottages (did I mention we saw some sheep?). I felt at one with nature...and indeed when nature called....ladies you will be thrilled to learn....I put my hot pink She Wee to some field tests. I can report it works a treat (or should that be trickle?).

A selection of photos from the weekend (click on any to enlarge)....