18.53
Bredonborough.
A fabbo day, a Summer day in Autumn, beginning by the back door…
Tasty pears on two bushes…
Into the garden…
… where the bees are goin’ like dinkum, their legs all daggered up with pollen (to quote Mr. Elford, gardener at Fernhill House 1980-84)…
Colour continues to erupt I…
The Hand of God…
Tasty plums I…
II…
This morning, organising in The Cellar & then over to HQ for the same this afternoon. The old kitchen has lotsa stuff waiting to be sorted…
… but the feature of the room is the fireplace from the cottage where my Mother grew up in Greenland Terrace, Aberbeeg…
Mother’s grandfather & his 8 sons built a terrace of cottages for the complete family in Aberbeeg up the hill from Abertillery.
One of the sons was killed during the building when a wall fell on him. Edith was born in 1914, 2 years after her Sister Evelyn, to Joe & Gladys. Joe Greene was a miner in the Six Bells Colliery…
http://www.abertillery.net/picpages/sixbellscolliery.html
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/wales_sixbells.htm
Land reclamation at Six Bells
… pigeon racing champion of Wales for three years 1935-37, and lost a leg in a serious mining accident which nearly cost him his life. Joe was touch & go for a week in hospital, during which time Gladys’ hair turned from black to white. Joe died at 59, after a long night wheezing out what was left of his lungs. When Nans died in 1982, widowed for longer than she was married, the cottage was sold (for £1,000) and I inherited the fireplace from 8, Aberbeeg Road (as Greenland Terrace had become). The fireplace was installed in a small study at Fernhill House, Witchampton (1983) but the following owner replaced it with a fireplace more in keeping with a Georgian house, and returned it to me. Now, after 18 years of storage, it is gracing my life.
20.43 The Arising Issue continues, although there is a solution to the first part of the problem.
"To try is to fail."
