Thought for the day :"Some people grow old like wine, I am growing old like milk, sour and getting chunky"
Rain 16 : Dry 8
6th Bag of coal
Surprisingly mild and strangely dry today....
Nancy popped over to upload some files on the internet - hers is too slow at the moment
Also Mark and Wendy (Penrhwipal) popped in with Bob the collie and we all took a walk - crazy times.
Think Toby will sleep for a week now
Susie braved the garden and pruned the roses on the front doorway and along Fairy Town...
Daffodils and crocus beginning to peep up form the ground and the mole is back !!
In other news...
Marged ferch Ifan (1696 – January 1793) - Wrestler and harpist.
Marged was from the area around Mynydd Drwys y Coed on the Nantlle Ridge in Snowdonia where, with her husband Richard Morris, she ran a pub frequented by copper miners. She could shoe horses and also made harps which she would play to entertain her customers.
Marged was an imposing woman, at over six feet tall with hands like shovels. She took on wrestling challenges well into her seventies, beating men much younger than herself. It is said that she once clobbered her husband to such an extent that he gave up drink and became a Methodist.
Marged and Richard later moved to Nant Peris, where she built a boat to ferry miners to their work across Llyn Peris and Llyn Padarn, earning her the name 'Queen of the Lakes'. On one occasion she threw a passenger into the lake over a disagreement over the fare and only hauled him back in on his agreement to pay her a guinea.
Unsurprisingly, Marged's legendary actions have been the subject of many local songs and legends and she was also included in Thomas Pennant's 1780's travelogue, 'Tours in Wales'. Marged was buried in Llanddeiniolen on 24 January 1793.
Marged was from the area around Mynydd Drwys y Coed on the Nantlle Ridge in Snowdonia where, with her husband Richard Morris, she ran a pub frequented by copper miners. She could shoe horses and also made harps which she would play to entertain her customers.
Marged was an imposing woman, at over six feet tall with hands like shovels. She took on wrestling challenges well into her seventies, beating men much younger than herself. It is said that she once clobbered her husband to such an extent that he gave up drink and became a Methodist.
Marged and Richard later moved to Nant Peris, where she built a boat to ferry miners to their work across Llyn Peris and Llyn Padarn, earning her the name 'Queen of the Lakes'. On one occasion she threw a passenger into the lake over a disagreement over the fare and only hauled him back in on his agreement to pay her a guinea.
Unsurprisingly, Marged's legendary actions have been the subject of many local songs and legends and she was also included in Thomas Pennant's 1780's travelogue, 'Tours in Wales'. Marged was buried in Llanddeiniolen on 24 January 1793.
Cheers !
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