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Post by Rosie on Mar 2, 2016 9:00:11 GMT
Now then Dai, we also have the High Level Ranters, Bobby Thompson..erm......The Animals, Alan Price, Jimmy Nail..that'll do for now   sweetpea Your still asking for trouble you worky ticket Then theres the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough,  and, of course PJ & Duncan.  Byker Grove was a great show, filmed around where I used to live and the building was just over the wall from my school  |
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Post by KC on Mar 2, 2016 10:04:43 GMT
I have to say, I'd move to Wales in a flash |
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Post by grindle on Mar 2, 2016 10:07:51 GMT
well it's certainly not the eastender in me rosie  |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 2, 2016 14:56:41 GMT
I have to say, I'd move to Wales in a flash I like it here KC
... except on days like today, when it has been snowing and raining 
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Post by KC on Mar 2, 2016 15:01:34 GMT
I is just as stunning on days like today |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 2, 2016 16:35:08 GMT
You definitely can't see as much!! 
I climbed Snowdon, with friends, some twenty years ago. We started on a sunny day, yomping up the Pyg Trail, It was lovely looking down at a tarn, etc., but when we reached the railway line near the summit, it was foggy, and we were upset to find the café had closed for the winter, just two days earlier. We had no choice but to sit on the concrete step, looking out at nothing but fog! 
You can image our surprise when we heard heavy breathing coming from in front of us, down the mountain, somewhere, when two guys, in singlets and shorts, appeared in front of us, looking soaked from the moisture and pink from exertion! It looked surreal, I can tell you! |
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Post by Andrew on Mar 2, 2016 20:42:43 GMT
If you take the trail from Llanberis village dianthus , there's a half way café, unsurprisingly half way to the summit. I did the 3 peaks challenge 2 years ago (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and then Snowdon in 24 hours) 2 years ago. The summit of Ben Nevis apparently only has about 15 clear days a year, and we were very fortunate to get one of them. The views were amazing though. Although standing on several feet of snow (at the summit) at he end of May in the UK was quite surreal really. |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 2, 2016 21:01:14 GMT
You are a lot fitter than I am, Andrew The three peaks in 24hrs is some achievement
I couldn't climb it now, with my older bones and dodgy knee. |
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Post by Andrew on Mar 2, 2016 21:13:56 GMT
Although I had done some fitness training beforehand, in all honesty dianthus , I was totally under prepared for how tough it actually was. I'd definitely consider doing it again, but would do a lot more training knowing what I do now. |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 2, 2016 21:54:15 GMT
I know enough not to try to do it again |
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Post by Bess on Mar 2, 2016 22:54:15 GMT
This thread is making me giggle, but on a serious note, I hope Hywel returns. I quite often have Cacti Questions. Or Cwestchions, to put it in Welsh  I live in the English-Welsh Marches and it's really funny to see the mock?-serious way both sides insist they are either of pure English or pure Welsh ancestry, when nearly everyone is well and truly mixed! My husband's family insist they're all English but his Nan had a strong accent from the farm in South Wales where she was born... and I have no doubt she insisted her entire family were pure Welsh! I love that snapping crocodile emoticon. Very expressive. |
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Post by SueA on Mar 3, 2016 8:02:20 GMT
I'm English/Irish but unlike some I support all the 'home' nations & Ireland in football/rugby/athletics etc. etc. (unless they're playing against England! ) & lived very briefly in South Wales in a boarding house somewhere near Swansea/Mumbles when I was about 4 or 5. I climbed Snowdon too with my O.H. about 30 years ago using a combination of the Pyg & Miners track, there was no cafe at all then, we carried our own food to the top but I was so exhausted & both of us had vertigo, that all I could manage was a drink of water! Lovely views but I would need to take the train up nowadays! I hope @hywel comes back one day too, I love the photos of his cacti & garden with the beautiful views around it. |
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Post by Rosie on Mar 3, 2016 11:19:03 GMT
I don't have Hywel's e mail address, If anyone else had it maybe they could say we would love to have him back with us as we miss him |
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Post by daisy on Mar 3, 2016 15:46:15 GMT
I don't have Hywel's e mail address, If anyone else had it maybe they could say we would love to have him back with us as we miss him I've sent a message to Hywel via the other site :-)) |
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 3, 2016 20:11:18 GMT
I have to say, I'd move to Wales in a flash KC, you would be more than welcome.  |
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and, of course PJ & Duncan. 
