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Keiki and Humuhumu running up the hill toward Paxton’s Tower in Carmarthenshire, Wales, whilst pretending to be aeroplanes.

Goal Check-in 8/52: Mostly fail )
This was the view over the River Tywi at around mid-day on Saturday. We were up on the hill above it for all of ten minutes and were soaked to the skin when we returned to the cottage. You can see the silvery river snaking through the centre left of the photo.

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This is (almost) the same view 24 hours later. The river hasn't so much burst its banks as engulfed the entire middle section of the valley in a torrent of brown.

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Goal Check-in 7/52: Mixed success )
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[Telstar lording it up in the sunshine on our ill-kempt lawn.]

As I predicted last week, there was a downturn in success this week. It was mostly due to the need to devote a lot of the latter half of the week to clearing out rooms in the house that will be demolished imminently.

Goal Check-in 6/52: half and half )
I’m going to be putting my weekly goal check-in posts behind a cut and tagging them, so you can easily scroll on by if they don’t interest you.

Goal Check-in 1/52: mostly success )
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