OK Andy, I’ll try and raise the tone with this vector. Good fortune last year found me needing to spend a night in Ystradgynlais (“Why strangle Alice” to some jokers) and after dutifully consuming several pints of the aforementioned delicious Ale. What I was seeing https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/herman-evening-ystradgynlais-t06523 became evocative of Puget Sound and the Brecon Beacons evocative of the Olympic Mountains. Mulling over ‘oppression, endurance, the weight of labour’ soon got me to sleep.
That picture makes me think of the Cardiff docks when I was there (1979-82). I've been revisiting Cardiff a few times recently (partly because of my daughter now being a research student there) and of course the old docks area has changed out of all recognition. I really regret now that I didn't take more photos there back in my uni days. (I did take lots of photos of pubs for the 1982 UWIST Student Union Handbook!)
