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.

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