Oh dear! Spot of bother over at the New Harp. It was going to be a great week for our local. We had painters and decorators booked in this week and they had started work this morning on the outside woodwork. Everything seemed to be going according to plan. Then, later in the day, I [...]
Managed to get away again – the second time this month! This time it was the Abergavenny Food Festival. Absolutely wonderful. We had never been, and were disappointed that we had narrowly missed the opportunity to go last year. This year, it worked out just right in that we didn’t have to rush home in [...]
We looked at the diary for the next few weeks and scared ourselves. In fact a cup of tea and a rub down with a wet flannel was called for. Sal decided that she couldn’t let me do it all on my own, so she has taken time off work to help me. But it [...]
Managed to get out again. This time we were invited round to the neighbours’ again to celebrate the launch of Jon Hurley’s ‘long-awaited’ novel. Long-awaited by whom, we do not know, as most people see Jon as the author of non-fiction works. But Jon himself admits that this novel has been gestating almost as long [...]
We’ve met the new owner of the New Harp Inn. We have the lowdown on the plans for the place. We know now that the new owner wants to transform the bar area and the kitchen, smarten the place up and generally give it a facelift. The decking in the garden area is just the [...]
The Birthday Weekend starts here! As a special treat, we went to Cardiff, the excuse being that we needed to find Wally’s Deli. Market research, doncha know. Worried that the takeover of Safeway by Morrisons would shut off our supply of Polish sausage (Safeway carries anything up to 8 different varieties), we checked out the [...]
The landscape gang in charge of proceedings over at the New Harp are staying with us this week. We don’t like to pry, of course, but it is always good to know what’s going on in the neighbourhood, so naturally we asked them about the plans for the pub. Most obligingly, the foreman was quite [...]