Author: Bill Deakin

Stop press: We have had a cancellation. Beudy is now available next weekend (21/22 August). To see all other available dates, go to the Beudy Bookings Calendar on the website.

Time for your July pictures if you want them to appear in the Gallery. As ever, send them as an email attachment (singly, or preferably as a zip file) and please rename them for me. Thanking you.

Due to a cancellation, Beudy is now available from now (Monday 12 July) to Tuesday 20 July inclusive. Please let me know if you want to make a booking.

The pictures keep rolling in! Check the Gallery out for the latest additions. Please don’t feel you’ve missed the boat – if you’ve only just got your snaps back from Kodak, Ilford or ProntaPrint, don’t worry – I’ll find room for them! As ever, don’t send them through with a jumble of letters and numbers with an email saying ‘ Here’s some pictures of me on/at (whatever)’ , leaving me to sort it out. Take the trouble to ‘rename’ them with a short title and send them as attachments, so I can download them as a zip file. I still have to do some work on them to get them into the Gallery, so any help is appreciated. Bill

With the present situation in Wales, there are windows of opportunity as follows:- Nights of 12th/13th July. Nights of 5th/6th August*. Night of 16th through to night of 25th August*. * As it stands. See below. Although technically, we can take bookings from up to 3 households, the small print says that these 3 should be known to each other, already in a bubble, etc, etc. In practical terms, that probably means we can only accept a booking from a single household. The Welsh government are being quite cagey about the next moves out of lockdown. Mark Drakeford, the First Minister, does not sound so ‘gung ho’ as his English counterpart. The next review is on Thursday, 15th July. We will keep you posted. Bill and Steve

Just published. Check what some Members have been up to in the last month or two.

The Welsh government announced today that the current rules (as far as they affect Beudy) will remain in force for at least another four weeks. This means that up to 3 households can use the hut, subject to the social distancing and personal hygiene stuff. Self contained motorhomes/campervans can continue to use the grounds. Members are reminded that they must make a booking with Bill or Steve before going to the hut.

Under latest Welsh Covid rules, from 7 June, up to 3 ‘households’ can join together to become an ‘extended household’. For Beudy, this means 3 sets of people can use the hut communally, subject to following the guidance on social distancing, hygiene measures, etc. The next Welsh review is on 21st June, but personally, I can’t see them straying too far from the English position of delaying a full reopening until mid/late July. Steve and I have Member bookings as follows for the next few weeks:- 18 June (1 household,1 night); 2-4 July (2 households, 2 nights); 16-18 July (1 household, 2 nights); 23-26 July (1 household, 3 nights) 30 July -2 August (3 households, 3 nights). If you want to make a booking, please let me or Steve know. You will need to confirm that everyone has read and will abide by all the Covid stuff on the website. If you have read it, you will know that there are no pillows or tea towels in the hut. That is the position as it stands. If there is any change, we will let you know.

I’m delaying putting the May gallery shots out until I reach double figures, of which I am some way short. I am sure some of you would like to share your pictures with other Members, rather than have them languishing somewhere in your own personal gallery on your phone. I can understand that the ‘This Time Last Year’ section might be sparse, given that the lockdown was affecting all of us last year. Hope to hear from you.