JAN'S PAGE
 

Croeso! Welcome to my page. I'm mum to the 'creatives', plain and simple, and that's enough creativity to last a lifetime as any other mum will agree! Much of my working life has been involved in accountancy in one way or other but now I am retired and live in one of the most spectacularly beautiful parts of the country. Every time I open my back door and see the ever changing colours of the mountains, or drive down the heavily wooded valley to the shops on the coast, I think about how lucky I am to live here.
Apart from domestic duties, much of my day is taken up with my garden when it is not raining. And we do, on occasion, get a great deal of rain on this western coast of Wales which is probably why everything here is so green and lush and the granite escarpments suddenly burst white with frothing springs. The garden is about an acre and is mainly grass and an abundance of trees and shrubs including Rhododendrons and Azaleas and has a pretty stream with ponds running through the middle. I gave up on many of the smaller flowers and vegetable as the only thing to benefit and get fat was the large family of rabbits that took up residence here. The summer months are always doubly busy with the three grandchildren Jessica, Tamara and Jonathan visiting from the West Country, where they live with their parents. I have in the past, enjoyed sewing and my aim this year is to make a quilt which might become a family heirloom (show my creative hubby and off-springs how to do it!).  The often overcast winter months are occupied with swimming, walking in the mountains and developing my Welsh language skills. For those who are interested in this old and fascinating language Peter and I have developed a web site English-speaking people titled 'Learning to write and speak Welsh for the terrified' at:

www.siop-siarad.co.uk

Top picture: Jan on the Moelwyn mountains in a snow storm. Middle picture: Jan with the grandchildren on the
 

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Contact details. Address: Bron Elliw, Rhyd-y-Sarn, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd LL41 4NT, North Wales, U.K. Telephone: 01766 762693.
jfkitchin@bronelliw.freeserve.co.uk


Browse more sites from Peter and Rebecca Kitchin, the father and daughter team from Wales, UK | Greeting cards, prints and originals - Greeting cards: handmade, wedding stationery, original watercolours and signed prints. Includes happy birthday, merry Christmas, best wishes, thank you, get well soon | Personalised Greeting cards - Personalised Greeting cards: handmade with illustrations of Welsh landscapes, flowers, Welsh cobs and the Ffestiniog railway. Includes happy birthday, merry Christmas, best wishes, thank you, get well soon | Cardiau cyfarchion - Cardiau cyfarchion, argraffau a lluniau gan Rebecca & Peter Kitchin | Wedding stationery, traditional - Wedding stationery: handmade invitations, personalised, traditional designs. Wedding invitations, wedding reception, order of service and menus created | Wedding stationery, contemporary - Wedding stationery: calligraphy, handmade, personalised, contemporary designs. Includes wedding invitations, order of service and menus | Birthday cards - Birthday cards, handmade: personalised, online. Personalised birthday cards designed by the creative duo | Christmas cards - Christmas cards: handmade, personalised. Welsh landscapes, snow scenes, holly, ivy, and Ffestiniog trains | Pet portraits - Portfolio of pet portrait paintings and drawings by young Welsh award-winning artist plus advice on commissioning your own pet portrait | Watercolour landscape paintings of Snowdonia - Watercolour landscape paintings of Snowdonia, North Wales by Peter Kitchin. Includes studies of slate workings in and around Blaenau Ffestiniog, Cwmorthin, Maenofferen and Porthmadog | Watercolour landscape paintings of South Buckinghamshire - Watercolours of South Buckinghamshire: Over thirty watercolour landscape paintings of South Buckinghamshire and other parts of UK by Peter Kitchin | The following are 'non-profit' research sites from Peter and Rebecca | Learn to write and speak Welsh - Learn to write and speak Welsh: A web site written by Welsh learners for Welsh learners - the terrified kind! | Directory of British birds - Birds seen in UK. Massive directory of breeding and migratory British birds arranged by habitat and by A-Z | Directory of British castles - Discover the rich history of castles built in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Who built them, why, where? | All Web Sites designed and published by P D Kitchin. © Copyright Rebecca Kitchin & Peter Kitchin 2007. Any attempt to copy the images within these websites, digitally or otherwise, will constitute an infringement of copyright.