Monthly Archives: February 2012

Looking for a way to celebrate St David’s Day tomorrow in West Wales? Here are just three of the many events planned to mark St David’s Day on 1 March 2012. The St David’s Day celebrations will start in St Davids … Continue reading →

St David’s Day (1st March) is nearly upon us and it’s time to make some celebratory Welsh Cakes (pice bach, cacen gri, pice ar y maen).  Traditionally Welsh Cakes were cooked on a bakestone or cast iron griddle (a planc … Continue reading →

Traditionally a Welsh bride carries a bouquet containing myrtle leaves, signifying love in life.  She gives her bridesmaids a cutting to plant and if it blossoms, the girl will soon marry. Welsh brides believed that it was lucky to be … Continue reading →

Tŷ Unnos (plural Tai Unnos) means ‘one night house’ in Welsh and is an old Welsh tradition dating back to the period between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was believed that if a person could build a house … Continue reading →

Driving along a lane near our smallholding in West Wales, we stopped on occasions to admire a small group of black and brown sheep grazing in the valley.  The sheep were very striking, with white socks, white faces and very … Continue reading →

A sentiment we hold dearly here in West Wales as the Welsh poet, William Henry Davies, expresses in the above couplet from the poem ‘Leisure’.   We found the time on this day to stand and stare and appreciate what is … Continue reading →

To say ‘I love you’ in Welsh on St Valentine’s Day is ‘dwi’n dy garu di’ and if that seems a bit tricky, why not give a unique and romantic Welsh Love Spoon instead?  The hand-carved Celtic Love Spoon has … Continue reading →

What a wonderful day out we had on a crisp and sunny morning in January when we went to the Food Fair at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales.  There is always something exciting to see and do here, whatever … Continue reading →