Showing posts with label porthcawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porthcawl. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 04, 2015


Taken in Porthcawl last week, above the photo shows the peninsular on the land at sky meeting sea level... that's Ilfracombe...


We were sat, four of us girls in a line on a bench, faces to the sun, warm and happy and appreciating the beautiful day...


We were working, two of us, and down this lower end of the town it was really peaceful, went we went to eat lunch the sound of chatter and traffic broke our spell of calm!



We have been having good and bad weather, in that order!  Today is bad!  I popped out briefly before getting ready for work which is where I am headed soon.  I randomly bought things for home, a calendar for next year!!  And some other bits 'n pieces!?!

We are all packed really... only a few last things to go in a box or two on moving day, moving of our belongings that is, I think we will be here for a week maybe, living very sparsely! lol

Living in a strange place now, a moving changing weird limbo, ready to go but can't, counting down the weeks/days, items on lists being crossed off daily, plans made come into place...

Finally a photo from Facebook recently.... therefore it is purloined!  Thank you...


TTFN
Marian

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Aqua - Mystical Magic!




Veronica Roth's challenge in the name of Aqua!


noun, plural aquae 
 [ak-wee, ah-kwee] (Show IPA), 
aquas.

1.
Chiefly Pharmacology.
  1. water.
  2. a liquid.
  3. a solution, especially in water.


So for me, for you, its photograph art!

Well, this was a toughie for me this week, started a new job on Sunday, a twenty nine hour a week rota should be the norm, but you know how it is, and this week, my first, was a forty hour week plus a sleep in! Panic started setting in yesterday, all I could think was Aqua... with no answer forthcoming, my 'Toast' was almost waiting for me to make it happen... but with new job, new location, new routines to learn, it was blankety blank!

So today, finished work at three and we went off to Porthcawl, a beautiful seaside town here on the south coast of Wales... I took a few photos... and earlier at work, seeing a strange item on the staff room dresser, which had to photographed by myself as I thought it looked strangely camel like!!!

Back we came, stomachs full of fish and chips bought at the fair ground!  And I started playing with a couple of different systems on my lap top and above is the result...

So what do we have!? A giant camel sea monster afloat off the Welsh coast! Sea monster... and plenty of the beautiful aqua off the Welsh coast...

Apologies! LOL But I couldn't just do nothing :-/

TTFN
Marian



Monday, January 13, 2014

Seriously? No Blog since last year?? Ooops sorry, have been working, and working oh and working some more and inbetween on breaks... oldest son came to visit with his girlfriend, just over new years and we had a great time, stayed in new years evening, but out and about over the two days... down to the sea and along the coast, the norm... Rhossili of course, and Porthcawl.... went back to Porthcawl storm chasing another evening with Franco, and it was stormy, no rain, but plenty of sea spray coming in, highest tides for decades and there we were hundreds of lemmings out and about risking life and limb along the road! Only two walls and some metal rails to keep us from the foamy roaring seas!

Should be writing this with more difficulty on my phone where the photos are... bare with will upload now... and now we will wait for them to come through??

Now I have used my phone to Blog maybe I should do that more often because now, nearly eleven pm and after a day spent on my ancestry site my mind is empty, my hands are tired and my eyes are slowly closing for too much work on here, had the day off unexpectedly, and now find tomorrow also the same!  Wish I had known could have had a short trip up country to visit the family.... I have to bring down some of my moms things, so much to go through which I would very much like to do so, and sooner rather than later too!

Spent some of last couple of days free times sorting though clothes too, if I haven't worn them for a while they are outta here, I have kept things for sentimental reasons too, how absurd, I get worse...  So they are going along with some ornaments that have been malingering about in boxes, things I have had for over 30 years, and are the sort of things people would say, well well, haven't seen something like that for decades!! So they too will be leaving the building shortly!

No moss gathering here folks, or dust, so watch out I say!

Photos here and I must say not my best at all!


A beach scene from Porthcawl above...and below, not great pic again but does show the very unusual rock formation hereabouts!


An old sign on the wall here as you enter the beach area, they have built a large area where there was only sand into cement, to act as a toughened protection against the seas on the sea wall itself, so bathing down there wouldn't be too bright anyway!


Although as you can see below on the night of the storm chasing... it was a lot worse, this photo doesn't even look like a photo to me! I could hardly keep hold of my phone let alone take a picture with it! Both tried to take videos but couldn't get a grip on anything to keep still long enough!!! Still though I am sure will try again during the next never before known highest tides next time they pay a vist!


TTFN
Marian