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Tag Archives: Dinas
(Not) Sleeping with wild animals
I must have seemed an awkward and stubborn child. On our summer holidays in Dinas I was lucky to have a bedroom to myself. The sunny room was quite delightful and I slept on a feather bed that I knew … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, History, Nature, Wildlife
Tagged Dinas, edwardian, furnishing, Pembrokeshire, style, taste, Taxidermy, victorian
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Pembrokeshire for epicures and sybarites
If you’re the kind of person who marks the third Thursday in November with a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau, looks forward to enjoying wild game birds from the Scottish moors in September and the first daffodils from Cornwall in January … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Food
Tagged Blas y Tir, Dinas, early potatoes, Pembrokeshire, Pembrokeshire earlies, Tegfan
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How well do you know your cawl spoons? (A quiz)
Cawl (more of that another time) was traditionally eaten with a wooden spoon. If, like me, you don’t fancy the idea of eating soup from the sort of wooden spoon you might use for stirring cake mixture, let me assure … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Food, History
Tagged cawl, cawl spoon, Dinas, Pembrokeshire, soup, Tegfan, wooden spoons
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To Harrods for satin pantaloons
In my role as a book volunteer in Wilmslow’s Oxfam shop, I’m constantly delighted by the enormous range, quality and quantity of donated books. When this wonderful book came onto my desk I lingered over it, remembering a childhood experience … Continue reading
Posted in books, History, Sea
Tagged bloomers, Captain, Dinas, Dinas Cross, fashion, Harrods, mail order, master mariner, oil tanker, pantaloons, Pembrokeshire, Rotterdam
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Windblown Hawthorn trees
According to the Met Office, Wales is one of the windier parts of the UK and the windiest areas are over high ground and along the coast. Look at the Hawthorn trees along the cliff-tops as you walk the Pembrokeshire … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Walking
Tagged cliffs, Dinas, hawthorn, Pembrokeshire coast path, wind, windblown
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A non-conformist guide to the Middle East
The density of chapels in this sparsely populated corner of Wales repays some study and the names transport the passer-by to the Middle East*. Some chapels survive as places of worship, many have been abandoned and others been converted to residential … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
Tagged Baptist, chapels, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Fishguard, Methodist, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Tegfan
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Good teachers make a difference
I have two sets of great-grandparents who were born and brought up in Dinas. They were born in the 1840s and I don’t know whether or not they went to school. Judging from John Hughes’ depressing account of Education in … Continue reading
Self sufficiency in West Wales
Sally Seymour’s lovely scraper board illustrations*are based on the farm near Dinas where the Seymour family strove to become self-sufficient in the 1970s. The illustrations appear in the book Self-Sufficiency – The Science and Art of Producing and Preserving … Continue reading
Posted in Art, books, Crafts, Farming
Tagged Carningli Press, Dinas, farming, John Seymour, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Sally Seymour, self-sufficiency, small holding, Tegfan, Wales
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Film locations
The Pembrokeshire coastline is so dramatic, wild, picturesque and undeveloped that it has inevitably featured in a number of films. Richard Burton’s Under Milk Wood was made in Fishguard Lower Town, and more recently Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood was filmed on … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged Cwm yr Eglwys, Dinas, film, locations, Pembrokeshire, S4, St Brynach's churchyard, Tegfan, Wales
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Landscape and Light for Artists
Pembrokeshire is full of art galleries, artists’ studios and memories of well known figures from the art world. Graham Sutherland, who left a collection of his paintings to Wales first visited Pembrokeshire in 1934 and said it was the place … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged acrylic, artists, Coastal path, Dinas, oils, painting, Pembrokeshire, Tegfan, Wales, watercolour
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R M Lockley at Dinas
The eminent naturalist, R M Lockley, whose book on the private life of the rabbit inspired Richard Adams’ ‘Watership Down’, spent the war years on Dinas Island Farm. ‘The Island Farmers’ (first published in 1946) is a fascinating account of … Continue reading
Posted in books, Wildlife
Tagged bird-watching, Birding, Coastal path, Dinas, Island Farm, naturalist, Oxfam, Pembrokeshire, R M Lockley, Tegfan, Wales, wild-life, winter
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Tegfan, Dinas Cross 