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Dowling Family Pics
Pictures of going down into deep slate mines, white water rafting, part way up miner’s path on way to top of Snowdon, sailing and windsurfing at Bala. Off to our local resevoir, Bewl Water, next week as kids hooked on windsurfing now – doing week course as a follow up to their time in Wales. Hope all well with you, Louise and girls. Elizabeth
Gods, Governments and Tescos
Who’d be a farmer? Not me, perhaps. The problem with farming, in this small part of North Wales at least, is that so much of it is out of our hands. We seem to live and die by the will of the gods, governments and Tesco. BSE, foot and mouth, bird flu, blue tongue; all of them have affected or will potentially affect our farm’s profitability. But none of these problems, as far as I can see, were... [Read more]
De Horning Calves
We’ve had two new born calves this month. Not all of them planned pregnancies if I’m honest. One of our cows is a little promiscuous and escaped into the bull’s field a little earlier than we planned. I blame the parents myself! The picture above shows how we stop the cows growing horns by cauterizing the growth ring or horn bud. This is done while their still young and before the horn has had... [Read more]
Afon Artro by David Brown
Some great pictures taken by David Brown. David and his wife Brenda are regular and much liked guests here at Byrdir. Afon (river) Nantcol winding it’s way down from the Rhinog Mountains merges with Afon Artro on its journey from Cwm Bychan. The river flowes throught the pretty village of Llanbedr before flowing out to sea at Shell Island.
Roadside Brambles
Some of the bramble on the lane up to farm are beginning to ripen already. I always think its ironic how I spend hours carefully nurturing various fruit bushes in the garden while my favorite fruit grows wild and free on the side of the road. I always have to fight the urge not to run over raiders from the village who come up to pick them. I shouldn’t as there’s more than enough to go round. My... [Read more]
Squify Carrots
My carrots and parsnips have grown all squify. I’m pretty sure this is because of the way I propagated them in the greenhouse. I started the carrots, if you remember, by sowing them into lengths of guttering full of compost. Waiting for them to grow and then, when the time was right, simply sliding the entire crop out of the half pipe and into a shallow trench in the raised bed. I noticed then that... [Read more]
More Photos
I’ve taken some more pictures of the vegetable garden so as to compare them with the ones I took back in June.
Rob and Sam McLaughlin
Rob and Sam McLaughlin were kind enough to send me a CD of all the pics they took while they were here. Click on the image below to see them all. RobSamMcLaughlin
Pond Life
I took this photo of some creatures living in our pond, but I have no idea what they are. I’m guessing that the dead animal being eaten is a smooth newt, but what are the other two? The shrimp like beastie on the right kept his tail on the surface of the water. It looked like he was breathing through it if that’s any help to anyone. It is illegal to sell smooth newts under the Wildlife and Countryside... [Read more]
Philippa & Martin Holmes
Hi Louise & Gwion Just wanted to say thanks for looking after us last week at Byrdir. We had a great time and are already missing your fabulous breakfasts and wondering when we can arrange a return to your lovely part of the world. Anyway, despite that fact that they’re pretty useless from a marketing point of view, we thought you might appreciate these shots of some moody skies taken last... [Read more]
