Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Saturday 13 July 2013

Bredonborough Rising at to a

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Bredonborough.

Rising at 07.00 to a bright and sunny day. WillyFed looking especially cute, even for WillyFred.

The back door I…

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The Minx set off to her meeting c. 08.10, and has now returned.

21.09    Sistery arrived c. 10.40 for our day’s adventuring: a visit to Aberbeeg (14th Oct 2012 / 14th Oct 2011) and the home in which St. Edith Of The Valleys was brought up and lived until she was seventeen, then leaving for Bournemouth I…

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The man next door told us he is not a member of the Greene family, but has lived there for 50 years and knew Mrs. Greene, our maternal Grandmother…

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There was no lunch to be had nearby – the Railway Inn has new management who have not yet received their hygiene licence – and we failed to find a restaurant in Abertillery. So onto Pontypool and a modest lunch at a modest establishment near the Pontypool Museum I…

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Difficult to convey the hardships of mining life - Joe Greene lost a leg down the Six Bells colliery, hovering between life and death for a week, and wheezed his life away at the age of 59 - but the museum gives some indications.

From Pontypool to Ross, where Sistery took a walk while I took a nap.
Home c. 18.00 after a moving family day.

Down the garden for tea with the Minx.
Shopping.
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Loading music into Sister-In-Law Nicky’s birthday-present iPod to be given at the Willcox family event tomorrow.

An early gentling ahead.

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