Dear Janet
Thanks for sending the details of the Holy Wells Conference. It promises to be an interesting event - and if I were nearer, I'd come along. I'm not sure what I'll be doing then; I had thought France but always get the impression these days that Peter prefers to go alone for a bit of peace, and he knows I don't get on with intense heat. So be it! I'll be meeting up with you in Pembs from the following weekend, of course, which will be fun; surely by then we'll have some settled weather.
I wonder whether you felt this morning's earthquake? It was 4.15 am when I was awoken out of a strange dream by a creaking outside my door followed by a jarring sensation which lasted about a minute and a half. We've never experienced one before at Trewellwell in the thirty-five years we've been here! It was quite disconcerting and at first I thought a plane was breaking the sound barrier. I gather the epicentre was on the Lleyn and that its magnitude was about 3.8.
I chased up Peter Allen this morning to try to fix a date for his meeting with Maddy, and he suggested the 9th June, so that is now arranged, although I shall be checking to make sure he's on the case, as I think he can be a bit vague. He is having to cope with my daughter and her children though, which is enough to make anyone distracted! They are all at the Urdd Eisteddfod today, so I'm mentally wishing the adults luck and feeling relieved not to be joining in!
I went up to see the O'Malleys again last week and decided not to walk with them after lunch but to hive off to have another look for St Callwen's Well. I felt some pressure to be quick in case they came along the same lane en route for the hills to walk their dogs, so when I reached the rectory gates and found I couldn't easily park (due to large boulders), I had a glance without seeing the well and drove off! I'm sure you'll have more success when you visit, although I've just looked at the old maps online and couldn't see a well marked there, which surprised me as you'd mentioned the well was shown on a sketch map probably outside the west boundary wall of Cellan churchyard.
After a couple of warm days, a cloud-bank began to take over yesterday and now we're back to hints of sunshine in an overcast sky with unappealing temperatures. I managed some hands and knees weeding, trying to remove ivy from beneath the shrubs in the borders, which was a horrible job and made me very irritable as my head was constantly being scratched! It was a good excuse to put my feet up and doze in a garden chair! I wasn't able to find a decent-sized replacement choisya online as I'd hoped, so might go over to a nursery this afternoon to find a young one and really nurture it; they do grow quite quickly anyway.
Love
Julie
Here are more details of the conference to be held in Llandudno on 7 September 2013.