Anyway I was on my way to Aberyswyth when I saw a sign for a village and thought, hang on Jan lives there, so did a detour. Luckily her street has an unmistakeable name and I found it.
I hope she didn't mind me popping in unannounced. I thought it would look odd if i drove past and odd to drop in unannounced.
Gosh she gets lots of birds, I did like the bird who flew to the window feeder looked in and thought "who are you and flew straight off again". Still the darned things come SO close!!
I didn't stop that long, terribly British don't want to impose don't you know. But just for OC....

Jan recommended Aberareon as a place to visit so ......
but first I stopped at
St Gwenog, Llanwenog









Aberareon is a very old fashioned sea side town and quite unspoilt. Very picturesque alas I was there on a grey cloudy damp day.








I never did get to Aberyswyth. I discovered that Aberareon was 5 miles from a National Trust property I was heading to so went straight there.
Llanerchereon is not a grand house but its one of those interesting houses the trust does well. Its a gentleman's villa, a place you could imagine living and lots of the servants arears, meat room, kitchen, laundry etc are open.

The lake had a family of Little Grebes (they were hiding from the camera alas) oh and a Red Kite overhead (loads of Buzzards sat on telegraph polls btw)












The observant amongst you will have noticed a church in the last photo so I strolled down.






I wandered into the NT tea room for a cup of tea and a slice of ginger cake. As I finished it was 3:10 and it was raining hard so I strolled to the car and wended my way home. Curiously despite the weather I had a rather nice day.
Oh and I have read all my work emails. Yes that is sad.
So lamb, beef, cod or salmon tonight? decisions decisions. The bread and butter pudding was good last nigh btw.



















































































































































