Barn Annexe, Wales

30/03/2026

A time-lapse video of the sky near the Barn Annexe, captured in October 2025 by Reuben Howes

Recorded by Reuben Howes (2025). Many thanks!

30/03/2026

A time-lapse video of clearing skies by the Barn Annexe, captured in October 2025 by Reuben Howes

Recorded by Reuben Howes (2025). Many thanks!

04/02/2026

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15/04/2024

It's that time of year again: daily Lamb Watch. Jo has been busy doing this every day for several weeks now. In rain, rain, and more rain. I (Dave) have shamefully only joined Jo on Lamb Watch occasionally. Anyway, enjoy these pics. And here's hoping for a warm and sunny late spring :-)

15/04/2024

Jo's brother, Jonathan Davies, was cited in the Guardian national newspaper yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/14/the-guardian-view-on-local-councils-they-must-meet-the-needs-of-communities-not-just-whitehall

See the link to Jonathan's "Power to the People?" report:

https://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/power-to-the-people/

Well done Jonathan! I (Dave) prefer to write about soil erosion, which seems very simple by comparison :-)

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01/10/2022

Some pics from nearby places, taken at various times during 2022. All with a watery theme. Oh, and there's one of bluebells (couldn't resist 'em)!

05/10/2021

We haven't posted anything here for quite a while, sorry! So here are some pics of -- and around -- the Barn Annexe taken during the last year (gosh, has it really been that long?)

24/02/2020

"We all come and go, like ripples in a stream."

So first -- a couple of posts before this, that's the best Facebook could do -- some actual ripples: a video of the stream at the bottom of our field (you can just see the ripples on the left, after couple of seconds after the video starts, if you look closely), then another video which shows the ripples (actually Von Karman vortices, I think) close up.

Then some clouds above our Barn and Barn Annexe, then our two cats Dotty and Kizzy looking at Hay Bluff.

Vortices, stream, clouds, cats, buildings, me and you, Hay Bluff... all ripples in the stream.