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Morning folks. Enjoy your weekend. ☕️

A grey damp one today but a surprise bloom to brighten the gloom on my Dame Deborah James rose ❤️
A white rose blooming
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Bore da folks. ☕️
First frost of the winter today here but sun's up so not for long!
Busy day ahead and Fat Lily not on my lap so no excuses 😉
Happy Friday!
#SwanseaBay #Wales
Close up of beautiful thick frost crystals on green blackberry leaves in early sunshine. Disclaimer: not taken on the beach in Swansea!
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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It's sunny Friday Eve!
Bore da, folks 😊☕️
Enjoy your day whatever you're up to!
A paraglider with big orange parachute coming in to land low over the golden sand of Rhossili Bay. Worm's Head is laid out dark on the horizon.
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Bore da! Sunshine on #Gower and #Swansea - for now, anyway 😊Have a good day, folks. ☕️

The image shows the #WTSWW reserve where a massive area of trees was destroyed by the previous owner. Tree-planting and active conservation is now on-going! 💚
View from wildlife trust nature reserve past two twisty oak trees towards the golden grassy Gower commons. Blue sky and sunshine.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Bore da! A chilly one but no frost yet 😊 Have a good day ☕️
Low winter sun shining through pine trees above Swansea Bay. Clear blue sky.
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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After a stunning blue day, a perfect sunset 🧡
#SwanseaBay
Sun on the horizon above Swansea Bay, light reflected across the sea. Sun disappearing behind the ridge at the west of Swansea Bay creating a golden glow. After sundown the sky is suffused with a golden glow reflected on the flatcalm sea
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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But of course!!! I'll swap you for a few Welsh cakes 😋 👍
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Lush. Calm silence. 💙
#SwanseaBay
Clear blue sky and a calm low tide in Swansea Bay with Mumbles on the horizon.
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Sun's up and it's a shiny new week! Have a good one ☕️
Here's Three Cliffs Bay from the west 💙
#Gower #Wales
View of a gentle tide lapping on a blue sky day looking down from a cliff top at Three Cliffs Bay in foreground and Pobbles in the distance before flat-topped cliffs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Bore da 😊 Have a peaceful Sunday 🍂🍁🍂
Pic looking up long smooth tree trunk to the white sky. Probably a beech tree surrounded by many other leafless trees.
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Tide coming in at Three Cliffs Bay today 💙
#Gower
View from the clifftops of rocks sea and beaches. Cloudy sky.
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The rain's stopped and it's Saturday 😍 Have a lovely weekend, folks!
Here are Gower ponies grazing at Oxwich NNR 💚
Pic of three grey ponies heads down and grazing, all facing in the same direction. They are on grassy dunes.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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A stroll during a lull in the rain today. Nos da 😴
#SwanseaBay
Twilight view of a promenade and old observatory with strings of lights and the beach in darkness
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Some of the Oxwich #wildflowers in bloom yesterday. Burnet roses on the dunes, primroses in the churchyard and red campion and herb Robert in the lane.
#Gower #Wales
Close up of white, five-petalled Burnet roses Wild primroses flowering Pink herb Robert flowers growing out of a mossy stone wall Red campion flowers on a plant growing from an old stone wall
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Oxwich Bay yesterday. Quiet, calm and mild 💙💙💙
Have a good day, folks and if Storm Claudia is visiting, stay safe 😟
View from the edge of dunes thick with marram grass across a high tide sandy beach and a blue bay to the distant Gower cliffs of Southgate. Cloud and blue sky
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The last nasturtium of summer.
Close up of a windowbox orange nasturtium bloom and a few round green leaves in sunshine.
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Bore da folks!
Is it Stonechat Thursday?
It is now 😄
One of my fave clifftop birds. This one snapped in evening light from the Wales coastpath.
Portrait of a make stonechat with russet breast and the white "vicar" collar. Teeny legs and feet clinging to the very top of a thin stalk protruding from a leafless gorse bush.
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Not much sign of the fiery orb today but have a good Weds, folks 😊☔️
#SwanseaBay
A break in grey clouds above grey-sea Swansea Bay. Bright patch reflected in wet sand at sea edge.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#RemembranceDay
#ArmisticeDay
At 11.00am on 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent. Remembering those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
Close up of red poppies
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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A grey Tues in prospect so here are a couple of Gower ponies enjoying sunshine up on Cefn Bryn looking north over the commons to the Loughor estuary. 😍
Have a good day folks!
#Gower #SouthWales
Two grey ponies in sunshine on rough grassland on Cefn Bryn, the ridge that runs through the centre of the Gower peninsula. Behind them the commons are russet and fawn with green rocky outcrops on the edge of the Loughor estuary in the distance. Mostly blue sky.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Before yet more rain - a letterbox sunset 😊
#SwanseaBay
A letterbox break in rainclouds revealing golden sunset colours reflected in wet sand on a beach
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Sunshine and oystercatchers on the beach 💙
#SwanseaBay
Wide view of a wet reflective Swansea Bay with ebbing tide, sunshine and white clouds on blue.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Welcome to a fresh new week!
😊☕️
Hope it's a good one for you. Here's some Old Man's Beard and a blue sky ☺️
White fluffy old man's beard aka wild clematis at the top of an overgrown hedgerow in sunshine with a clear blue sky background.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Inside the Bethel Chapel. Lovely place, loved by cyclists! Top carrot cake and bone china crockery
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Views from the #RichardBurton walk around Pontrhydyfen ❤️
Post with birthplace trail marker on it Viaduct village and blue sky Top of the viaduct. Burton's childhood home is one of the houses below The Bethel Chapel where his memorial service was held - now an excellent caff with home-made lunches and cakes
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM