Outdoors
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2. The Cottage The Lleyn Peninsula* is the relatively low-lying tongue of land jutting into the Irish sea south of Anglesey and west of the spectacular peaks of Snowdonia, making the map of Wales look like a floppy-eared pig. In the 1950s it was pretty undeveloped, with the small seaside resorts of Abersoch and Aberdaron…
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Getting there As a family I don’t think we ever went to the cottage on our own. Holidays were always shared with uncles, aunts and cousins on Mum’s side, either Emlyn. Lu and cousins Alan and Grahame, or Uncle Geoff, Auntie Molly, Peter and Pam. Nana, of course, was usually there as well. One of…
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The We Three Loggerheads is a historic inn in the picturesque Alyn valley, on the road between Mold, the county town of Flintshire, and Ruthin in Denbighshire. The inn sign as I remembered it from childhood featured the faces of three grumpy farmers, each turned away from the others (its modern replacement has lost one…
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Moel Famau was a very popular outing for cub packs; Dad was Akela of the 33rd Wavertree cub pack in the fifties and I think we went at least once a year from 1954 to 1957, and quite a few times with the Scouts after that. So many times in fact that it’s impossible to…
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