out and about - 2018
18 April 2018 .............. First time this year
Celebration time - for the first time this year it was warm enough in the evening to go out on my bike wearing shorts - certainly makes a change from two pairs of trousers, two fleeces, a shell jacket, and a woolly hat !
Nice lighting beside the sea - the sun up behind some dark cloud, but some good colouring away to the northwest -
However round in the other direction the Nantlle Ridge was fairly catching the evening sun, although the whole of the Lleyn Peninsula was in the shade -
It was close to a Springs low tide, so all of the rocks around Rhoscolyn Beacon were fairly standing out against the back-lighting -
The sunset was too far away for me to stay and wait for it, and it was far too nice to go home, so I headed off away through Rhosneigr and up the back road that goes away up the hill - the middle section isn`t tarred, and over this last very wet winter the potholes have grown to enormous proportions, so a bit of a challenge in places - alright in a tractor, not so good on a bike.
Away up the back beyond Rhosneigr, and it is sort of into sunset mode, with the big black layer of cloud starting to break up, and producing a nice cloud effect -
It was still very nice, so I went up to say hello to the Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber up on top of the hill - it appears from various websites that what is there now is only a small fraction of what is now believed to have originally been there.
It has been restored, which is of course good - but using dressed stone and cement to form support pillars is really a bit out of character - this view of it just about hides the two pillars, it is actually a bit larger than what it appears to be in this picture -
The Neolithic people obviously wanted to give their deceased relations a happy forever after, with a super view from their front door -
I am not sure about the correct spelling of Tŷ Newydd - some websites refer to it as Ty-Newydd.
There used to be two signs about it down on the road side, and they had different spellings - however neither sign is there now - maybe they are going to be remade with the agreed correct spelling.
I think I am right in saying that Welsh is the only language in the world that puts a circumflex on the letter y - and on the letter w - I think it is because they are vowels in Welsh.
This was just about the last of the sunset, the sun sank down behind some increasingly thick cloud, and the colour faded away - but a good evening out.
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