'Portrait of the Brecon Beacons and surrounding areas'

It is raining gently here with a forecast maximum of 21C.  I heated up a croissant and returned to bed to read the above book by Edmund Mason (Robert Hale, London, 1975).  It belongs to my friend Leanne the Book.  When she first mentioned it to me I wasn't much interested cos it's not my bit of Wales but reading it is an absolute delight and I recommend it to anyone interested in Wales - geography, geology, archeology, myth and legend, history, travel, caving, etc etc.  The author hugely endeared himself to me when, describing the underground search for some lost cavers, he writes:  'Although I always had a great admiration for the Welsh miner, the voluntary effort of those men surpassed anything I could have imagined.'

For me, there are lovely elements to this photo:  the book itself, the fact that it became an interlibrary loan and the bookmark my friend Pasha Sasha brought me back from Turkey recently.