Last weekend

[glenatron]

Last Saturday I met up with shanks01 ( currently king of heartbreak ) and we headed off to Wales to enjoy a bit of meeting fellow lame non-going-to-gathering folks.

In Pontypool we met kittens who were full of pouncing and got them overexcited then stole their humans and went off to Swansea where we learned a valuable life lesson about the reasons that people don't make ice lollies out of jelly, those reasons mostly being to do with the fact that they are minging.

In the morning we slept until lunchtime then went for manky greasy Uplands Cafe breakfast which was exactly as it should be.


Having not been to a beach in long years I really wanted to go out to Gower so we went out to Oxwich and threw a ball around:

Alone on the grey and desolate beach with only a few thousand happy holidaymakers enjoying the sunshine around him, EmoShanks contemplates the meaningless of existence.


For someone with amazing reactions and hand-eye coordination, nohotashes sure did fail to catch the ball a whole lot.


Shanks is momentarily distracted from his sorrow by the need to catch an incoming ball.


There were a bunch of ponies living out on the grassland behind the dunes with a couple of young ones there. I didn't have a lot of time for pictures cos I was holding up the traffic, so this was the best picture I got.

It was really good to see all the welsh guys and it certainly made missing the Gathering a lot easier. Special thanks to shiva_matimbres for being an excellent host in spite of the jelly-pops idea and for making Shanks clean the stinky fish he brought for the barbecue outside.

Comments

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

You saw baby Curly's! How lovely. How could you go there and not bring a wild pony home though? Its tradition, we did it :D

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

They were quite Curly actually and very cute. Mostly not having time to bundle one into the car was the prohibitive factor...

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

You have a horse box... you can go back and round up a few ponies ;-)

[sleepsy-mouse.livejournal.com]

Listen to the nice lady.....you know she talks sense.....

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

Your stables are so big you could have 2 of them live in one stable. They are always on restricted grazing so theres not much to worry about with needing more grass, they live off fresh air because the ground in wales is so poor.

Curly says he'd like a new friend too please.

Look how cute Curly is. You know you want some little welsh ponies. Little driving ponies. Little trick ponies.

[sleepsy-mouse.livejournal.com]

We do need another trick pony....Zorro could teach how to open gates and Small could teach it how to steal buckets and Gem could teach it how to be friendly and nice.....

and they are only small...how much trouble could a small pony be?

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

Curly could teach it to say please and to bow and how to jump its own height from a standstill and how to get on its knees to go under the fence or roll under the fence and jump out of its stable. The tricks are endless and between us we have enough bad influence ponies to keep it entertained for life!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Oh stop it, you two!

[fleefloodle.livejournal.com]

Cute baby pony ^-^

And cute emo!man on beach

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

:D

[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

Ah, I need to go to Swansea soon.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

You do- it's fast forgetting what you look like.

Fortunately Lucy was on hand to tell us about happy childhood holidays at Kilvrough Manor...

[shiva-matimbres.livejournal.com]

an note to everyone: REALLY REALLY don't make jelly ice lollies, just don't OK

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Serious.