Caergybi

I get annoyed when people make unkind remarks about Holyhead.

I love Caergybi because I can buy duck eggs, (discontinued by a well -known food shops because they weren't selling) and other local produce, in the butcher's shop that's close to the Roman fort and the two ancient churches of St Cybi. Sometimes you can get a hot drink from the small building that used to be the chancel of an ancient church - then you can look at the gravestones with well-known local names on them

When I was walking with a stick and couldn't get to my favourite walks and work, I could at least watch, from the Celtic bridge, the comings and goings of travellers ,- and decipher the ancient symbolism of its mosaics and plaques

Against that, it infuriates me that the Eagle and Child has been renamed some dreadful "Bar" title - couldn't they at least have left the sign somewhere, and "formerly"? People used to walk or drive from the ferry,  specifically to see that, before going on their way, remembering the mail/stagecoack link between Caergybi and the other Eagle and Child in Oxford

It also enrages me that it's no longer possible to go by bus from Summer Hill  to South Stack and Twr Elin - not all birdwatchers have cars or can walk from - um - the village where the white bus terminates?

Fair enough, Caergybi  isn't a row of mobile phone shops and fashion shops,gardening and hardware shops and and and - but it's only a short bus ride to all those

Hurrah for the Druid!

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Salsa Charity Events

http://www.anglesey-today.com/island-summer-salsa-charity-events.html

Calling Albert Owen!

Calling Albert Owen!

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UK Asparagus

http://www.fdin.org.uk/2010/05/first-asparagus-from-yorkshire/

Very good too - but I've been buying excellent UK asparagus for M and S and Waitrose for some time - and very delicious it is, at a delicious half-price

Taste of Anglesey

I've long enjoyed Anglesey's fine  meat and cheese and chocolate.

Here's a  guide, both on line and in print, to the  Taste of Anglesey,  addresses where you can buy locally produced food,  also pubs and restauranats where you can order dishes made from local products

http://www.islandofchoice.com/true_taste_of_anglesey-24.aspx

Culture shock?

Culture shock? A new posh shop has come to Porthaethwy!

Because the Co-op has merged with Somerfield in Llanfairpwll, Waitrose has come to Porthaethwy.

http://www.theonlinemail.co.uk/bangor-and-anglesey-news/local-bangor-and-anglesey-news/2009/12/02/sixty-new-jobs-created-as-waitrose-open-up-in-menai-bridge-66580-25296849/

(Oops! I managed to insert a clickable link on a previous post, but this one doesn't seem to have worked.)

There's a cafeteria and two smart new loos (instead of the rather poor-DIY-looking one that was there before).
I haven't bought anything there yet.
On my first visit, they had run out of the newspaper I wanted, so my visit ended as soon as it had begun.
On my second visit, it was so busy that there was no chance of finding what I wanted and getting to a till in the time available - but I saw several delicacies that Tesco recently discontinued, and that I can't find anywhere else.

Two things that I didn't know:

Waitrose is the foodie aspect of John Lewis
Ocado is the delivery service for Waitrose goods

What's odd about the second is that everyoen has been saying that this is the only waitrose in North Wales - but I'm sure that I've seen an Ocado van in North Wales - so where would that have come from?