Amelia's photos

This lifeboat is part of the Shannon-class lifeboat fleet.

The new Llandudno Lifeboat Station was officially opened on Monday, 23 October, 2017. Previously the station was sited in the middle of the town, and it took far longer to tow it by tractor for launching. This site is at the Little Orme side of Llandudno, and launching is much quicker.

Sitting in the square having a coffee at the Italian restaurant, best coffee in town BTW, this was the view that we were looking at. Taken about half an hour later, the PiP shows that the BBC was in town. There was an important looking photographer taking a movie of the 'goings on', luckily he was facing away from us, so we won't be on the Midland News. ;-)))) The mapping is inaccurate, but it gives you some idea of the layout of the town. You should be able to find The Square by enlarging the photo.

The dark lines in the background are the pillars which support Cromer pier.

Bee on Teasel

The Queen of Hearst is a childish, foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", and who is quick to give death sentences at even the slightest of offences. One of her most famous lines is the oft-repeated "Off with his/her/their head(s)!" One of the Queen's hobbies – besides ordering executions – is croquet; however, it is Wonderland croquet, where the balls are live hedgehogs and the mallets are flamingoes. Both this sculpture and that of Alice were done by Carmarthen-based sculptor Simon Hedger.

Alice in Wonderland. Llandudno is a real life evocation of Alice in Wonderland because it was here, in 1861, that the Liddel family, including little Alice, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s fantasy, came for their seaside holiday. To the right of the plinth there is a bottle labelled 'Drink Me', and when Alice does, just that, to her astonishment, she shrinks small enough to enter the door. down a rabbit hole. But then she finds and eats a cake labelled "Eat me", which causes her to grow to a tremendous size. I loved these adventures when I was a child, and still occasionally take up the book once more

Adrian has a woolly jumper on as we've just come down from the top of The Great Orme. It came off very soon after this. We moved away quite quickly as the seagulls were being a nuisance. One of them even had the audacity to pinch a whole sausage from a woman's hot-dog. That caused a big flurry of wings, and lots of noise.

A 'Small Blue' butterfly on Agapanthus. We have been very busy this last week, taking down an octagonal greenhouse, and other things. The garden is a disaster area at the moment, with the drought and hot weather making short work of many plants.

The doorway over the library entrance.

In the PiP one can see the irrigation of potato fields in the background. Severn Trent, our water authority, has not brought a hosepipe ban in yet. There are deep aquifers underground in Shropshire, but they have advised their customers to be very sparing with hosepipes. We are not using our hosepipe to water borders as I want to see what plants survive the drought, so that I can give a talk to our local garden club. I think farmers are exempt because they are providing food for the nation. Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home! All is safely gathered in Ere the winter storms begin. This hymn was written by Henry Alford (1844) How times have changed. This harvest was safely gathered in at the beginning of July, and hopefully the winter storms are not upon for a few months.

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