12th January 2024 - Laurel and Not Hardy Cardboard

Thought for the day :"Doctor gave me some medicine to help increase my strength, but I couldn't open the bottle."

Rain 6 : Dry 6

Started 3rd Bag of Coal

Running out of Wood - none with Paul Elder  - hmmm 

But,  cleared the laurel from the lower path and took the chain saw to some overhanging branches.

Also managed to cover one of Susie's raised beds with cardboard.

Susie found some flights out to Crete for February - managing to go from Cardiff this time - costs a bit more but more convenient and flying by KLM means luggage is a option as well.

In other News:

On 12th January 1976, the most popular novelist in the world, Dame Agatha Christie died leaving a multi-million pound fortune, much of which is used to promote the arts in Wales.

In 1951, a young Welsh boy named Mathew Prichard was taken by his grandmother, Agatha Christie, to the Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff to see his first play, "Black Coffee" which she had written 25 years earlier. The following year she signed the world rights of "The Mousetrap" to her grandson as a 9th birthday present.

Prichard, now chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd which manages the literary and media rights to Agatha Christie's works around the world, set up the Colwinston Charitable Trust (named after the village in the Vale of Glamorgan), which uses royalties to promote the arts in Wales. The Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, and Chapter Arts have all benefited from the trust’s financial support.

Also on this day :

On 12th January 1405, Owain Glyndwr ratified a treaty with France in Aberystwyth. In May the previous year, Glyndwr had sent his chancellor, Gruffydd Young and his brother-in-law, John Hanmer, to discuss the possibility of an alliance with the King of France, Charles VI and the resulting treaty pledged French aid to Owain's uprising against the rule of Henry IV of England.

A good reason that we fly Owain Glyndwr's flag under the Alcoluminati 

Cheers