A photo from our walk. I didn't take many as the weather was grey - though it never rained - and, to be honest, there weren't all that many great views, though it was an interesting walk, we saw lots of birdlife and found a great place to do near our home that should have some lush woodland once the seasons change.

I've put this one up as it's quite a typical South Wales Valleys scene of terraced houses clinging to the side of a steep valley. The walk we did was largely along an old railway line that followed the River Sirhowy and would have carried coal down to the docks at Newport, nine miles away as recorded in the car park from where we set out, Nine Mile Point. I think (but I can't be sure now) that the village in that picture is Cwmfelinfach, which even I have enough Welsh to translate as Valley, Mill, Little - so, somethinb like "little mill in the valley".

We encountered a fox hunt - or a rider lost from a hunt that we could hear. Fox hunting is now illegal in the UK, but they still meet and - if they are to be completely believed - go out with their dogs chasing trails of artificiail scent. And if the animal rights activists - and some recent media reports - are to be believed, they're still fox hunting.