How the Welsh won Trafalgar

My problem is knowing when to stop with the daisies. I could have left off a few. I'm the same with sparkles.

So before I knew I would be leading Zac's tonight - the man meant to be doing forgot he was taking his wife away - I agreed to go on a river cruise with some friends. A river cruise = an hour and a half up and down the Tawe river. It was time I could ill spare but it was very good. The river valley has a lot of industrial history and the commentator was informative and fun. 

Husband and I had been on a similar trip ten years ago, not long after they began, and they're much more organised now. It's a charity made up of volunteers who drive, commentate, maintain the boat, and make cups of tea.

I couldn't get any photos today because my phone was playing up. "I need a new phone," I told Husband when I got home. He switched off and on again and said, "No, you don't. It's fine now."

I got home about an hour ago and have added final touches to my preparation for the study. I usually like to practise it but I'll just have to read from my notes this evening, having made my excuses first.

Three facts from my trip: Swansea has the second biggest tide in the world; the battle of Trafalgar was won thanks to the copper-bottomed boats of the British Navy, the copper having been produced in Swansea; and the only known occasion when yellow fever was transmitted in the UK was when a number of infected mosquitoes travelled to Swansea from Cuba with a cargo of copper ore.