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The latest newcomer in the herd takes a welcome drink
DSC05676 by Paul Macklam, on Flickr
Made my final decision on editing software too. Quite at odds with my previous experience and having tried out a few of the main contenders, I’ve subscribed to Lightroom with 1Tb cloud storage for £9.98/month.
New life everywhere at the moment.
DSC05148 by Paul Macklam, on Flickr
The lamb on the right was only an hour or so old.
Mmmmm veal 
Try getting between the calf and the mother 
Not a chance ! We have them next door regularly and some of them mothers are a bit mardy 
A bold London fox.
That was my playground when I was a kid!
Not really? You know where it is then?
Thought it was somewhere in France
Yeah I know exactly where it is. Near a place called Nantlle in Snowdonia. There’s miles and miles of it, and we used to roam around it as kids. My parents moved up there from southeast England when I was 7, and those quarry areas were like a fantasy landscape for us. Amazing fun at that age… perilous though, but somehow we always made it home! We used to usually come over the top from a village called Talysarn, and down through all the levels, until we ended up down in the valley near Nantlle, and out that way… circle round and back up to where we lived. It was always a whole day out, to get there, have some adventures, and make it home for tea.
Funny you posted those, actually, as that area has been on my mind a lot recently. Not been there for years… my family moved down to southwest England, after I left home, so Snowdonia hasn’t featured in my life for a long time.
Well, you’d be pushed to walk there from Talysarn/Nantlle, but its in the ballpark. It’s about half a mile up the path up Snowdon from Rhyd Ddu, and is natural not a quarry feature. But very possibly your parents took you there, or you lived some way up the valley - it is beyond the head of the same valley.
Here’s a couple of how the quarry between Talysarn and Nantlle looks now, I’d expect it has changed hugely?
Yes that’s where I was referring to - you said Dorothea quarry - I was looking at the photo of the lift tower. Rhyd Ddu is over the other side of Mynydd Mawr, not the Nantlle valley, but the one that runs up from Waunfawr to Beddgelert.
I’ve done that walk a few times, but I don’t know it so well over that side. We lived near Carmel, so Talysarn, Penygroes, Nantlle, was nearer to us. Rhyd Ddu I knew less well, although I had a huge crush on a girl who lived there, when I was 15 ish.
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