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Thursday, 3 April 2008
Thankyou to Bariane for letting me post on her website... I may have designed it and written the code, but it's still her website (and just to take a friendly michael (funny mood)... wouldn't have built it if it wasn't for her! lol) ... right... well... creativity... hmm... imagine the posibilities... hmmmm... Why is it that when you want to write something the words don't come? Why is it that the muse strikes only when the hour hand reaches 13 and you aren't expecting her to visit?
Well, just lately I've been playing with my compact digicam. It's not a fantastic camera, but it seems to do the job usually. I was creting a little journal with photo's of how my day wend a few weeks ago with it, when I suddenly remembered that it actually has a video function on it. It's not much of a video camera, but it's the best I have, and so over the last couple of weeks I've been making a few videos. In another post at another time, maybe I'll say more on that, but for now, I wish only to say that me and my camera took a walk a couple of days ago, to a very special place... Kenfig Castle. It's a Norman castle originally formed as a wooden motte and bailey type, later built in stone. There's not much left of the castle that's visible, but not much of it has been excavated - just a section of the keep. Nobody is going to be excavating much more of the castle itself for some time to come either, because it's under the care of Cadw, and it's inside the boundary of a Site of Special Scientific Interest - Kenfig National Nature Reserve... not to mention of course is the fact that anything that remains of the castle is being held together by the sand hat buries it, and who's got the money to restore it?
Anyway... this is one of my favourite places. I don't visit as often as I might... partly owing to it being in the middle of no-where, which though nice on your own, does get just a touch, well, isolated. The reserve/Kenfig Burrows (encompassing also the rather romanticly bleak and barren Sker Beach - bleak and barren even if it does have 5 tanks from WW2 buried under there somewhere!.. and the skeletal hull of a fishing vessel (the Altmark) that ran aground there in 1959) is a huge place, and I sometimes feel dissapointed when I go there that I can't walk around and see it all. Oh.. Lots of myth and legend in the area too, but that may be a tale for another day.
Anyway... after a little while putting together little video clips of my visit there, this is the final product, and I hope you enjoy it...
If anybody would lie further information... the castle was once serviced (and formed!) the medæval town of Kenfig - up until about the 14th century, when it was buried by the encroching sand - the source of which is unknown to this day.
Information on Kenfig castle can be found at - http://www.kenfigsociety.org/picturecastle.html
For information on the lost medæval town of Kenfig (of which the castle was part), buried by the sand, see here - http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/page7.html
Bright blessings,
Krissie xxxxxxxxx
A trip to Kenfig Castle
Well, it's probably about time I posted something on here after all this time, and so, here we go...Thankyou to Bariane for letting me post on her website... I may have designed it and written the code, but it's still her website (and just to take a friendly michael (funny mood)... wouldn't have built it if it wasn't for her! lol) ... right... well... creativity... hmm... imagine the posibilities... hmmmm... Why is it that when you want to write something the words don't come? Why is it that the muse strikes only when the hour hand reaches 13 and you aren't expecting her to visit?
Well, just lately I've been playing with my compact digicam. It's not a fantastic camera, but it seems to do the job usually. I was creting a little journal with photo's of how my day wend a few weeks ago with it, when I suddenly remembered that it actually has a video function on it. It's not much of a video camera, but it's the best I have, and so over the last couple of weeks I've been making a few videos. In another post at another time, maybe I'll say more on that, but for now, I wish only to say that me and my camera took a walk a couple of days ago, to a very special place... Kenfig Castle. It's a Norman castle originally formed as a wooden motte and bailey type, later built in stone. There's not much left of the castle that's visible, but not much of it has been excavated - just a section of the keep. Nobody is going to be excavating much more of the castle itself for some time to come either, because it's under the care of Cadw, and it's inside the boundary of a Site of Special Scientific Interest - Kenfig National Nature Reserve... not to mention of course is the fact that anything that remains of the castle is being held together by the sand hat buries it, and who's got the money to restore it?
Anyway... this is one of my favourite places. I don't visit as often as I might... partly owing to it being in the middle of no-where, which though nice on your own, does get just a touch, well, isolated. The reserve/Kenfig Burrows (encompassing also the rather romanticly bleak and barren Sker Beach - bleak and barren even if it does have 5 tanks from WW2 buried under there somewhere!.. and the skeletal hull of a fishing vessel (the Altmark) that ran aground there in 1959) is a huge place, and I sometimes feel dissapointed when I go there that I can't walk around and see it all. Oh.. Lots of myth and legend in the area too, but that may be a tale for another day.
Anyway... after a little while putting together little video clips of my visit there, this is the final product, and I hope you enjoy it...
If anybody would lie further information... the castle was once serviced (and formed!) the medæval town of Kenfig - up until about the 14th century, when it was buried by the encroching sand - the source of which is unknown to this day.
Information on Kenfig castle can be found at - http://www.kenfigsociety.org/picturecastle.html
For information on the lost medæval town of Kenfig (of which the castle was part), buried by the sand, see here - http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/page7.html
Bright blessings,
Krissie xxxxxxxxx
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