{"id":36490,"date":"2021-06-08T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T09:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36490"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T09:25:39","slug":"stretching-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/stretching-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having worked additional hours on Wednesday and Thursday I&#8217;d hope to finish early on Friday thereby stretching out the weekend a little. As is often the case things cropped up at work and I ended up staying there until later than usual anyway. So much for my plans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to worry though we still managed to pack plenty into the weekend. The weather was nice once again so much of it was spent outdoors. There was the usual activities for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sea Swimming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My sea swim was lovely. Nice calm waters, the sun was shining and the water has warmed up loads too. I headed into Borth with the tide and had intended to walk back. Swimming was almost as fast as walking though and I didn&#8217;t want to stop so I swam back against the tide as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5421648105\/embed\/9e6e4a890363a6c66053017b85e2a37b4aa1a43e'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mountain Biking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a nice mountain bike ride in the hills too. Nothing too cazy, just a longish, slow ride up through Artists Valley and back down again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5416066677\/embed\/0e5c95b93053a59468d1bd64d23268252161a810'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surf Skiiing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a fun surf ski. This was nothing extreme either, just a steady paddle into Borth, around the reefs and out to the Camels Humps and then back. The 8 knots buoys are out so they provide a nice line of points to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5424009045\/embed\/9abe8452c9a3c9c5cc4ccb4b2eea224d71704869'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stretch Tent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna and I also paid a visit to the &#8216;stretch tent&#8217; at Ynyshir Restaurant. We&#8217;d had an email from them that had been sent to all their Take Away customers. It thanked us for supporting them throughout lockdown by buying take aways and asked us to join them for a drink in the their new facility. What clinched it for us was the fact that the first drink was on them! It was a nice afternoon so we drove the short distance to Ynyshir and relaxed for an hour or two under their tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular has-rounded-corners-10\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:49.98252%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stretch-tent.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stretch-tent.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stretch-tent.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stretch-tent.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=950&#038;ssl=1 950w\" alt=\"Anna in the Stretch Tent\" data-height=\"713\" data-id=\"36491\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=36491\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stretch-tent.jpg\" data-width=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stretch-tent.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.01748%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ynyshir.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ynyshir.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ynyshir.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w\" alt=\"Ynyshir\" data-height=\"675\" data-id=\"36492\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=36492\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ynyshir.jpg\" data-width=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ynyshir.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a nice location for an outdoor bar. The tent itself provides some shelter &#8211; either from the rain or the sun. It is however outdoors so is safer from a Coronavirus point of view and in many ways nicer at this time of year anyway. It was all very relaxed and the first drink was indeed on the house. We did stay for a second of course and no doubt other people stayed for several more so I&#8217;m sure Ynyshir did OK from the gesture of thanks! They weren&#8217;t doing food in the tent which was a shame, but apparently they will be soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gardening<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There was plenty of garening done at home. The main task this weekend was to resurrect the water feature. The pump needed replacing as it hadn&#8217;t been working for a while. It&#8217;s all fixed now. The water is bubbling away, there&#8217;s the sound of water in the garden once more. The birds and bees will appreciate it and so do I. I did of course give it all a clean out, re-wired everything and even dug out all of the surrounding stone chips and washed them off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Feature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Feature.jpg\" alt=\"Water Feature\" class=\"wp-image-36493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Feature.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Feature-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Water Feature<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The bees were inspected and all was looking good. I even added an extra super to the larger of the colonies. Fingers crossed they&#8217;ll start filling it up with lovely honey for us. Elsewhere in the garden thigs are looking lovely. I think this is my favourite time of year in the garden. Everything is growing well, there&#8217;s plenty of life and colour but things have yet to get too unruly. Even the wild bits are wild but not too messy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular has-rounded-corners-10\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Droplets.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Droplets.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w\" alt=\"Droplets\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"36494\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=36494\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Droplets.jpg\" data-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Droplets.jpg?ssl=1\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Raindrops.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:63.96618%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Drops-on-Lupin.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Drops-on-Lupin.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Drops-on-Lupin.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w\" alt=\"Water drops on Lupin\" data-height=\"675\" data-id=\"36501\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=36501\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Drops-on-Lupin.jpg\" data-width=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-Drops-on-Lupin.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:36.03382%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Yellow-Flag-Iris.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Yellow-Flag-Iris.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w\" alt=\"Yellow Flag Iris\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"36502\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=36502\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Yellow-Flag-Iris.jpg\" data-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Yellow-Flag-Iris.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The irises are putting on a show. The lupins are flowering nicely. The rain drops and dew on the leaves of the lupins and day lilies looks nice. The red elder is flowering too and the flowers on the palm tree contine to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The days are stretched out too at the moment with lovely late sunsets from the patio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sunest-on-the-patio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sunest-on-the-patio.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset from the patio\" class=\"wp-image-36503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sunest-on-the-patio.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Sunest-on-the-patio-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sunset from the patio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stretched Cat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, as this post has so far been about stretching out the weekend and some time in the stretch tent, here&#8217;s a photo of Cosmo our cat stretching out to full length!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cosmo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cosmo.jpg\" alt=\"Cosmo Stretching\" class=\"wp-image-36504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cosmo.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cosmo-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cosmo Stretching<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked additional hours on Wednesday and Thursday I&#8217;d hope to finish early on Friday thereby stretching out the weekend a little. As is often the case things cropped up at work and I ended up staying there until later than usual anyway. So much for my plans! 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