Bonsai Update.

 5 cm and growing. December 2020.

Decorations

 

Surrounded by art works on our Christmas Eve.

Resting

 

Our neighbour's pussy cat's favour head rest.

B & W House Refurbish

 

A start on the front half.

Falling apart it is.

I must count how many there are to glue, quite a few. Equally spaced and square

Seventh Escape off Campus, Twmbarlwm

 

The last escape of 2020.  It was fortuitous that we took this day to escape.  A couple of hours after returning home, Wales went to an unplanned  lockdown. Up there is 419 metres above sea level.

It was rather mistly but we could just about make out the coastline to the south west

and south toward Clevedon and Portishead in Somerset, some 30 miles away.

We did not linger long, a chilly breeze there was.

Butterflies

 

A new set of cuddler cushions to complement the calming painting.   Gek has been busy again.

Feeder Relocate

 

Following a visit by Mr. Rat, the decision was made to move the feeder up between the hedges.  One of the first to find the new location was Mr. Robin.

House Refurbish

 

The house undergoing an overhaul,

to include a window with a dragon and phenix profile taken from a Chinese paper cut.

Finally. got round to fitting the windows properly after xxx years.

A Starlings Breakfast

  

With winter, out comes the bird feeder. A sure fire favourite are dried meal worms. Conflicts are inevitable

Sixth Escape off Campus, A walk in Penallta Park

A stroll down from the car park,

under a blue blue sky. Spot the trail-less jets?

But you must go down before you can go up,

to see Sultan, the pit pony.

Ok, a poster view for a clearer view.

A strange structure at the highest point in the Park..

Also strange that 3,200 men worked the coal mine here in the 1930s and that where Gek is standing was then the top of an enormous waste-coal tip.. 

A little different now.

T'was a frosty day.

Walkway meets Outhouse.

 Tiling of the roof still to do but now provides shelter for the house boy going to the main house. Don't say anything!!!!

Waiting for Bonsai

 

Could be quite a while.

A Storm a'Brewing

 

But just passed us by.

Fifth escape off campus, Trip to the Coast

 

Down to St Brides again. It has been a little wild down here. Wonder where this tree came from?

No clear views of Penarth today.

But, lovely, none the less, out by the coast in a stiff SE breeze. Suitably suited and booted we were.

A Reorganise.

 

Through the door, to the right chaos,

to the left, a little more presentable.

First Autumn Frost

 

A next morning..

Autumn

A solitary cow in the field.

The view across our valley.

 A heart in the evening clouds.

Workshop Chaos

 

Outhouse in two halves plus a walkway under construction.

The Artist is Back

 

A scene from 1 Sky, Penang, revisited.

Queen Anne Furniture

 

A new Gek Contemporary exhibition of miniature Queen Anne furniture,

Follow the link,

http://www.gekart.net/Contemporary/Furniture.html

 for a viewing.

Bonsia Lastest 2.

 

After 22 days all seven seeds have sprung, most appearing over night.  The forest is born.

Fourth escape off campus, Darren Park birthday Walk

A Sunday morning stroll up the valley

Sheep at peace.

Autumn colours on the way.

Time to Relax.

 

Just arrived all the way from Austria...in just 2 days after ordering on-line!!!!  Amazing.  Now to regain a skill I never had.  Won the first game against the computer......probably my last.

Indoor Garden Addition - Bonsai

 Gek starts a new interest.  This could take soon time to bare fruit.

Black and White Outhouse, Part 2.

 

A start.

All in days or twos work, or should that be play?

Doing a bit of 'reburb' on the kitchen half.  When complete, the B & W house will have accommodation for a cook, a houseboy, a gardener and a driver.  Also a kitchen and a garage.

Autumn is Here

 

And strangely, a second round of strawberries.

Hawthorn 1

Hawthorn 2, with orange berries.

And a an indoor rose smiling at the sun.