My Canadian holiday

This will be the last post for a while as I'm off on holiday with my Mum and sister Cathie to Canada to see our friends who my Mum hasn't seen for 20 years. This was a surprise present for her 80th birthday from my husband Keith, who's staying at home to take care of the garden, and Cathie's husband Dave is taking care of their Guest House. Don't you feel sorry for them!!
We're staying in Kelowna for a couple of days, then travelling to Christina Lake B.C. where we’ll be spending most of the time. We'll be staying in a 3 bedroomed log trailer overlooking the lake that is owned by our friends and they are also giving us the loan of a car, so we should see some wonderful sights. Cathie and myself will take it in turns to drive as we intend to visit the Rockies for a couple of days. If I manage to get to a computer somewhere then I'll let you know how our holiday is going as we're away for 17 days if not I'll be back blogging about the 19th May. Bye for now.

St Bridget's Church

Here I'll tell you about our village church, St Bridget’s Church, which lies in the lane directly behind the Church House Inn. One of our very dear residents of Lighthouse Park has just been buried in the church graveyared who will be very sadly missed. It's a very picturesque church and if you go to the top of the church you can overlook all of the villages around.
Then there’s also St Mary the Virgin Church in Marshfield and the Baptist Church along side of the Masons Arms and there's also a church at the top of Marshfield Road, Castleton. St Bridget and St Mary’s are both Anglo-Catholic churches. Everybody will be made most welcome in any of the churches. Below is a photo of St Bridget's Church inside and outside given by kind permission from Phil and by clicking on this link will take you too his website, http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/MON/StBrideWentllooge/StBridget1.html

The Lighthouse Inn menu

Sara has a varied menu with a Speciality of the Day

meals served from Wednesday through to Saturday

12midday until 8pm

Sunday Lunch
Served every Sunday from midday until 5pm
£5.95

Don’t forget the “bucket quiz”

Thursday 8.00pm start
With a bowl of curry at only £1.50
(every 2 weeks please ask a member of
staff for information)

Our Local Pub (The Lighthouse Inn)

As I've said before in one of my recent postings, I was waiting for the landlord to be able to write about himself and the pub but as of yet I'm still unable to get him to do this. I'll write what I can and then maybe at a later date I can add some more. As you may be aware as from April 2nd 2007 this is now a non smoking pub.

I'll give you some of the History of The Lighthouse Inn, St Brides Wentlooge, Newport. There's been a hostelry of one form or another on the site since the late 18th century. A former name was “Ty yn y Pwll” which translated means “ The House in the Pool”. There are unsubstantiated rumours that the pub was used as a Mortuary during the WW1. Also that it was once a “Needle Factory”. It's suspected by older locals that the pub (which was a lot closer to the sea than it is now) was once used as a smugglers hideaway, back in the grim days when smugglers were punished by hanging.

Having a pub so close does save on taxi fares as it's actually at the beginning of the site. We have a weekly bingo night on a Wednesday, a quiz once a fortnight on a Thursday evening which is called a Bucket Quiz and on certain occasions we have artists i.e. singers, comedians etc. The pub's a good place to eat as it has a very varied menu and boasts good home cooking. You can enjoy a Sunday roast while enjoying the view over the estuary if eaten upstairs. Meals can also be eaten downstairs and of course in the summer months outside. Sara's going to give me a menu which I'll put on this site for you all to see what's available. There's an open log fire in the winter months, which is really inviting and some of the locals meet at the pub on various nights even for our community discussions.

Future world champion wrestling superstar!!!

I haven't been around for a few days as I've been in hospital, nothing too serious (I just wanted a rest) poor hubby had to do his own cooking. Now I'm back at home I'll have to get on track and get blogging again about St Brides Wentlooge and the surrounding areas.

My nephew's just written his first blog with the help of my sister Cathie, his Nanna. If you're interested in wrestling, please have a look at Ashleys Website Blog as he's only 11 and really excited at setting it up.