Thought for the day :"Just bought a Humpty Dumpty toy from Aldi, it’s brilliant. It comes with…. Aldi Kings horses… and…. Aldi Kings men."
Dry and relatively warm
Walked the dogs this morning and met up with Karen from South View, with her two dogs, including a Dachsund called Fred who did not enjoy the mud and water at all.
Found her on the liet path where she was looking for the place where there used to be an old abandoned car when she was growing up as a child. She couldn't be sure where it was , but thought it was ear to where the path is completely overgrown - so it looks a the old car drove off the lane...
In other stories, she confirms that the gate opposite our drive was the old footpath and short cut from her house to the village, with the kissing gate at the top of the field and coming out by Lianne and Nathan's bungalow. As I recall the kissing gate is still there as I had to close it up to stop 'Thena getting into the field when the sheep were there.
Apparently the field was the favourite sledging field in the snow.
Walked up to Halwen Hall, which used to be used as the Doctor's surgery in the past - with all the chairs for the waiting room in the area which is now the barn.
She recalls the old shop that used to sell food and wellie boots, and also acted as the Post Office. Apparently the window was filled with big bottle of sweets.
It seems there was a tragedy there when it was being run by Andy, who was apparently a lovely man, when a five year old boy got lost and was found dead in the open drain at the back of the shop. Apparently the mother always blamed Andy for having the open drain, and in the end he took his own life.
This was before the shop was taken over by Heather and acted as a Police Office as related before when she was one of the first volunteers who I trained back in the day when we were opening police stations in Dyfed Powys Police.
There was also a petrol station half way up to the village school. Will have to check the location,
Council have put new bollards at the fallen road and apparently there is so much damage all over the county that it is very unlikely that they will repair - and the road could be closed for months if not longer. That will be an inconvenience for everyone further up the lane and for our deliveries.
Getting ready to head off to Nancy's for Christmas Cheers !
