War's long done. We're all just folk now.

From the troubles of the world I turn to gin.

Six litres of gin to be precise. I last made sloe gin in 2016. I was upset to find that the raw material has pretty well doubled in price over the last five years thanks to heavy tax, alcohol sanitizers and gin's new fashionable status.

The Welsh government levies an extra tax on alcoholic drinks and it would have been cheaper for me to burn the petrol on a 90 mile round trip to buy it in England.

"A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."

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I'm going for Bombus hypnorum here, apparently first found in the UK in 2001 but I'm pretty sure I've seen white tailed, ginger thoraxed bumblebees with black abdomens since I was a child. That's a lot longer ago that 2001.

Also, I'm sticking with Endymion non-scriptus, which name has much greater dignity (and poetry) than the repulsive Hyacinthoides.

Wikipedia (whose article on B. hypnorum suggests an obnoxiously invasive program of research) says 'Queens in this species can be polyandrous... Because of multiple mating, sisters in a colony may have different fathers', which has a nasty stench of the judgemental voyeur.

They're bumblebees -- leave them alone. Reserve your spite for your own species.

I’ve recently been making my way through Tom Scott’s youtube canon documenting his approach to completing all achievements, side-quests and map exploration in the game of life... where was I? Oh yes... and found a piece on why Shakespeare could never have been French.

It contains the first line of a limerick, to which I will shortly return.

Wikipedia has this in its article on limericks: ‘... the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene... describing the clean limerick as... rarely rising above mediocrity".’

Scott’s YT thumbnail shows the words ‘There once was a man from Nantucket’, which line has its own Wikipedia entry. I implore you to read the article (it’s a short one) as it illustrates perfectly the criticism above.

Hen bont.

Old bridge. There’s a pre-Roman homestead just off camera to the left, or at least the stone foundations of the round houses, stock enclosure and outer wall.

If you have to show different mountains for Wales and England, such that you can't claim that Snowdon is in England, then you must ensure that Scafell looks bigger than Snowdon.

With all the respect that's due to wildbounds.com of, that's right the south east corner of the UK...

Milkwort, Polygala vulgaris.

Aberllefenni.

Eglwys Oen Duw