It’s December the 4th and Christmas really is all around. There was a lovely news item yesterday about a letter to Father Christmas, written back in the late 1930s being discovered up a chimney in a big house being renovated in Powys.
When I was on holiday last week I must admit that I didn’t spend much time keeping up with the news, but when I came back to the reality of everyday life I thought I had better take a look at what had been going on in the world.
Those of you of a romantic ilk may already be making preparations for St Valentine’s Day. But did you know that Wales has its own patron saint of couples and her day is celebrated tomorrow, 25 January.
It was on the Isle of Sodor that two small engines couldn’t wait to tell their friends of their secret makeover… no wait… it was at the Talyllyn Railway in the Snowdonia National Park and No.1 Talyllyn and No.2 Dolgoch engines (both nearly 150 yea
