Usksider's Photo Blog

I just thought I'd share a few more of the images I took up the mountain on Wednesday. Hope these don't bore the pants off you...

Note the sculpted layers of the one-time slag pile here.

View across the tops.

Looking up the valley.

We often seem to bang on about how things change over the years don't we? Some things really don't change much at all though. Take this Welsh valley farm for instance... a few cattle... some sheep...

Yes the farmhouse has electricity now, which it obviously didn't when it was built... and parts of it have been re-roofed over the years... fresh water is still supplied by a mountain stream though... no sewerage of course... or natural gas... and no paved access road... the nearest village is on the other side of the river... across the valley...

I wouldn't mind betting the original owners of the farm would find things much the same indoors as in their day... aside from the odd mod-con like electric lighting!

Lovely place to live though if you don't mind roughing it a bit.

So how come I'm driving round in this for nothing?

Not exactly subtle is it?