Cool Runnings - water and trains

No Snowdonia garden would be complete without water features. No need for pond liners, just a never ending supply of water running off the mountain.

In this garden a stream enters at the top and splits into several branches. One feeds a series of five cascading ponds. Another feeds the big pond we dug for when we kept ducks.

Water enters and leaves some of the ponds by mini-waterfall.

All the streams converge into one, just before the old barn, where the water used to drive a wheel for turning a churn to make butter.

This place has one other very special water feature - steam, which sends the trains to and fro across the top of the garden.

Find your happy at Rightmove!

Finding Your Happy

The joy of having a life size train set at the top of your garden!

For Christmas

Our first Christmas morning we were covered in a blanket of beautiful snow. It doesn't come as often as we'd like, but when it does, we make the most of it. This could be yours for Christmas if you call in at Rightmove. There are only 218 shopping days until Xmas!

Dragon's Back is Back

The 2017 Dragon's Back Race will start on Monday 22nd May and competitors will be running through Campbell's Kingdom on Tuesday, the second of five consecutive days.

They start off at Conwy Castle and end up in South Wales - 315km (about 196 miles for the metrically challenged) away with 15,500m of height gain across wild, trackless, remote and mountainous terrain.

The event organisers expect the fastest competitors to be running for approximately 8-9 hours each day and the slowest competitors (who complete the full course) to be running and walking for approximately 13-15 hours each day. Competitors pay several hundred pounds for the privilege of taking part.

It was first run in 1992 and it took 20 years until they recovered to do it again in 2012. It was also run two years ago making 2017 the 4th occasion.

Catching their breath at Campbell's Kingdom 2015

Wild Car

What a way to commute home after a day's hard graft working the slate in the mountains!

An Everyday Walk

The joys of an early morning walk to the railway loop which has excellent acoustics for the resident cuckoo!

Who Needs a Train Set

The joys of playing on your own platform. This could be yours! Just ask Rightmove for the details.