It was an unseasonably warm autumn day with the temp around 16c (61f) rather than the average for this time of year of about 12c (54f).
For those who don't know, Offa's Dyke was a ditch/earth mound that was built by King Offa of the ancient English kingdom of Mercia. It was built around about 785 AD and was designed to keep the marauding Welsh out of Offa's kingdom.
Apparently it was originally about 90 ft wide and about 25 ft deep/high and used to stretch about a couple of hundred miles long but now only something like eighty miles of it is left. As you can see from my photo what's left is little more than a grass mound but in some areas it's a bit more impressive.
And my Jack Russell Terrier, Zac, aged one.
Following my previous post and the nice comments made by 'Kelly' regarding the architcture in one of the photo's I decided to expand a bit on the church in that photo. The Church is Christ Church, Welshpool. It was built in 1839 (modern by local standards!). The funeral services for both my paternal grandparents were held in this church.
Nowadays although the cemetary is still in use the church is not. Somebody actually 
I haven't had the camera out for a little while now but with the coming of some nice autumnal colours I've been snapping again!
The weather was awful - it was windy with heavy showers and the temp was just 12c (54f)! Not much of a summers day. 
We had a brief sunny interlude and I took these ordinaryish pictures, but I think you can see how pretty (and old) the town is.
I'll go back and take some more on a nicer day.
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