Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years and 216 days. She spent just seven days of her reign in Wales, not because it rains as she was partial to rainy Scotland.
I have spent more time in Wales tramping across the Brecon Beacons in the HAC, going to Cardiff for opera, walking around Tenby and Snowdonia and staying with friends on the westward extremity of the Brecon Beacons. I drove the length of the M4 yesterday morning to stay with Ingy and Alan. The population of Wales is about three million and there are nine million sheep as these pictures attest.
Last time I visited, their house was a work in progress (see The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore). It still is but there has been a Great Leap Forward. It is still raining but the house is transformed. It is well- furnished, elegant and with a plethora of bulging bookshelves. There is also a most desirable DVD library. Alan says that when I have watched The Avengers he would like to swap for the box set of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I expect Robert will be horrified at having to watch another 1960s series.
The programme this evening is a “short” ( do you remember them?). That’s one of the 143 episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Digression, the theme song is sung by Dick James, subsequently better known as a music publisher.
And the feature film is Charge of the Light Brigade; the 1936 version. Alan sourced his DVD from Spain but it is in English he assures me.
