Cootlings

 

Chicks or Cootlngs, not as fluffy as duckings but still very sweet. Trying out the Canon R5 this week with animal eye detection it's amazing, it even locked onto the chick's eyes.

A Quiet Place

 

Windermere in the Lake District, our first trip to Cumbria this year and hardly a soul in sight. It was hard to believe lockdown was over I don't think I have seen it was so quiet.

Back to Bodnant

Cholmondeley Castle

 

The 1st of April marked our first road trip of 2021 to Malpas in Cheshire and Cholmondeley Castle.

The Cholmondeley Family have resided at Cholmondeley since the Norman times. The first member of the family to take the name was Robert de Cholmondeley; he became the 1st Lord of Cholmondeley in about 1200

In 1801, George James, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley was responsible for the demolition of the original Hall (click here for more history) and the erection of a comparatively small ‘gothic villa’, designed by a local architect William Turner of Whitchurch which is Cholmondeley Castle today.

The villa was subsequently extended in 1817–1819, perhaps to celebrate his accession to the Marquisate, but it was not until 1828 that several additional towers/turrets designed by Sir Robert Smirke were added to the structure to make it the Castle we see today.

Worm Moon Sunday, March 28, 2021

 

March’s full Moon goes by the name Worm Moon, which was originally thought to refer to the earthworms that appear as the soil warms in spring. This invites robins and other birds to feed—a true sign of spring!
An alternative explanation for this name comes from Captain Jonathan Carver, an 18th-century explorer, who wrote that this Moon name refers to a different sort of “worm”—beetle larvae—which begin to emerge from the thawing bark of trees and other winter hideouts at this time.
March’s full Moon often plays a role in religion, too. Specifically, in Christianity, this Moon is known as the Lenten Moon if it is the last full Moon of the winter season