Wedding season in the Wye Valley and we are delighted to be hosting several couples during May. The weather could be warmer for you but at least the cottages are comfortably heated and the good wishes are warm. The settings for your photographs are fantastic! Every blessing!

Busy busy to and from across the Atlantic in our cottages today.
Outgoing guests set off for Boston ,Vancouver ( and Scotland).
Incoming guests arrived from Houston and Minnesota ( and also from Cardiff accompanied by Canadians and from Cornwall having collected partner returning from the US.) Golly , we are glad you can come to the gentle Wye Valley and Vale of Usk and just chill.
Travellers Croeso, Welcome or should we start to say Howdee? So glad the ash has cleared!

Visited a friend whose bottle fed lambs were playing with her cat, how cute were they all in the spring sunshine! See pic!

Canvassers calling at Tintern Abbey Cottage today were suprised to be sent packing by the guests with thw words " Buzz off, we are in paradise here, we dont want it spoiled by real life and are having a quite wonderful time and the only sort of party we need ".
The guests tell us this is a paraphrase!

We are grateful that all the cottage guests incluing the international contingent, have been able to come and go with no problems caused by flight delays. Spectacular blue skies for the last three weeks make it hard to believe there is a cloud of ash up there somewhere. It doesnt look as if it is over Tintern!

Having started the week with a wedding we ended it with a 90th birthday lunch party. Cheers everyone this has been a warm Tintern week with sunshine literal and metaphorical! We wish you all many more blue skies!

The week started with the excitement of a group of Latvian guests coming for the wedding of one of their number in Tintern. They had picture postcard perfect blue sky and warm sun, extraordinary in April and hopefully a sign that the marriage will be blessed too.
Fabulous photos taken in the Abbey and from our lawn with the Abbey behind. Congratulations!

Gardening all afternoon on Saturday and suddenly noticed the pink nose and arms with fetching white marks where the gloves have been. Never thought to wear high factor creme in April.Doh.

The 21st Century has arrived at 18th Century Tintern Abbey Cottage now that Freeview TV is finally transmitted to the village.We have 5 flatscreen TVs all of which now receive TV plus radio channels. Add this to the ipod docks , CD/DVD players and WiFi already available- and we are in the modern age. Happily they all have off switches.

Quick panic to construct the garden furniture which has been hidden away all winter now that the sun has come out really warmly.People suddenly want lunch in the cottage garden!