On Friday 10th September 2010 a group of visitors came from the Diocese of the Highveld to visit us in Monmouth. St Mellons and St Dyfrig's had a joint visitor - Cynthia - and what a girl she was!

On Saturday 11th St Dyfrig's hosted a coffee morning and get to know you session and we immediately bonded with Cynthia. She was meant to have a picnic lunch and tour of the valleys with Shirley and me but Brenda Haveriim (Manfield) hosted lunch. I offered to walk Cynthia to Brenda's house but she said she wanted to go shopping with Shirley! Here is a photo of Les Girls after lunch:

After a wonderful repast Shirley and I took Cynthia up the valleys to Six Bells and Blaenafon. At Six Bells we stopped to look at the fantastic memorial sculpture to the men killed at the mining disaster in 1960. Here is Cynthia by the statue:

Next was Blaenafon and the Pontypool and Blaenafon Railway, then home via Tal-y-Waun; Abersychan (where I went to school); Pontypool; Griffithstown (where I was brought up) and finally back home before Cynthia went to a posh nosh in Bishop Dominic's house. Needless to say Cynthia was fascinated to see the slippery paths of my youth.