A FINE GAME OF RUGBY IN LLANELLI

We finished our supper of Morrisons salad, fresh rolls and mini samosas in the car park of Morrisons in Llanelli and drove the quarter mile or so to park up for the big game.

The Scarlet’s website takes up the story

AN OCCASION TO REMEMBER AS SCARLETS' SEASON ENDS ON A HIGH

“The best elements of Welsh regional rugby were weaved into an emotional and inspiring night at Parc y Scarlets as the Blues and Scarlets put on a spectacle of rugby to entertain a near full house.

The hosts gave their departing players the pride and respect of a thrilling winning send-off with a bonus point victory over the Blues and with it maintained an unbeaten record against Welsh opponents this season. A memorable night for all that were part of it, the 13,000+ crowd witnessed the last-ever game played by Scarlets outside half Stephen Jones" 

FLOORED BY THE ROMANS

In AD 43 the Romans invaded Britain. A few years later, once we were tamed, and deals made with provincial kings in England, the Romans built some wonderful villas across the southern England. It is interesting to note that again the south was the focus of economic wealth as it is today.

Earlier in the month we went to see two wonderful villa sites; the first was Fishbourne Palace AD75-80 near Chichester in Sussex.  And, up the road a bit, is the village of Bignor nestling in the South Downs; here there is/was a magnificent settlement put up the 3rd Century AD.

These two places hold wonderful examples of tessellated mosaic floors; magnificent work, two thousand years old and still quite enchanting to look at.  

ESSEX: THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN WORLD

After Essex, towards the East, is the sea, the North Sea.  Essex with its flat wooded wide landscape, skies that are wider still, tatty farmsteads, which are now, overgrown with ivy over red brick. Across the county are gentrified cottages with wrought iron gates and entryphones. However down here near Tollesbury OS reference TL958101 is the end of Essex as it falls away through creeks and estuaries, right into the sea.

SUNBATHING IN THE THE BBC

Before it went all chilly cold again, in time for onset of Summer we working in London people were basking in the sun at the drop of a lunch break. Sitting out in every available piece of grass. 

No less so were those happy not-yet-in-Salford Manchester workers at the BBC in the White City who 

enjoyed the sun on the large expanse of green outside the BBC White City building. Sun, warmth and happiness.

BBC - Drawing on Experience - Thank you

Dear BBC.com thank you for continuing to use my drawings

Mommy, look what I did on the way to school

Mommy, mommy, Trevor let me use his iPad on the train to school and did this picture of the other person in the carriage, oh Mommy, can I have an iPad like Trevor's?

GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER

Whither shall I wander?

Upstairs and downstairs

And in my lady's chamber.

There I met an old man

Who wouldn't say his prayers,

So I took him by his left leg

And threw him down the stairs.

(More fun with lino-cut printmaking!)