...but having a perfectly lovely time. 
I'd taken him to St Fagan's Folk Museum, but there is so much to see that we'd only done my favourite bit around the row of cottages, the prefab, schoolroom, bakery and shops.
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/
I decided to show him another 'bit' so we headed off towards the castle and visited the wool mill and met Dewi the weaver - Except he was wirebrushing a piece of old metal and wearing a blue boilersuit! Seems the water feeding the waterwheel is clogged up so he's restoring an old weighing scale. He showed us the water wheel he'd just painted as well.
The grounds of St Fagan's are lovely and I used to go there with teacher friends to collect leaves for their nature tables in the autumn.
We also visited the fishing exhibition to see the coracles and admired the gardens and grounds of the castle, cooed over a very cute black duckling and enjoyed the scent of the rose arbours.
We went to the Non-conformist chapel which has a real elegance in its simplicity and I discovered that Unitarians are unitarian because they don't believe in the Trinity, rather than they stick together.
There is also a 'house of the future' but I was disappointed with it. I saw it when it was new and while the green credentials were cutting edge, it was actually a home. Now with all the green messages, they've removed the furniture and it's just an exhibition space. The garden is great though and we decided we need a 'bee hotel' for 'solitary bees'!
We had lunch in nice pub in Groes Faen and then more Bach and birdsong...
2008-07-12 @ 01:00