Now a better close up of the castle.
My husband and I dropped our middle daughter off at her friend's near Newport for onward transportation back to Uni. We had "planned" to visit Castell Coch on the way home - somewhere we have been planning to visit all the 20 years we've been in Wales. Despite checking on the web site, to find out it WAS open right through winter, I obviously didn't read far enough down the page, as we arrived there to find it had shut for winter refurbishments the previous day and won't open again till mid-February. Ah well. We will have to go back in the spring.
Although it is on the site of a Medieval castle, this was another of Lord Bute's fantasy castles, designed by his faithful William Burges. I believe the Bute family never even bothered to stay in this one and indeed Cardiff castle was just one of their "holiday homes." This link
will take you on a 360 degree virtual tour of Castell Coch. This Wikipedia link tells you more about the history of it.
This is on my needles as the moment - several feet of very poorly-knitted double moss stitch scarf. For some reason I keep getting the pattern wrong and will find I have suddenly done three rows starting in plain instead of two plain and two pearl. Then I found I had 44 stitched instead of 42 - cotton wool head yesterday, when I was knitting like crazy on our car journey to Newport. Ah well, it will keep her warm when it's done and G said she didn't mind about the mistakes and the kingfisher blue is so pretty to knit with.
