Tulips At The Tower

A trip into Cardiff City Centre was needed to drop some of the wife's jewellery off at a good repair shop in St Mary Street.

One of the items was an 18ct gold neck chain where the spring clasp had broken. It held an expensive heart shaped diamond. My wife was in work last week and noticed it was missing from around her neck. In a panic she started looking around the office and told her colleagues.  She retraced her steps to her car and returned to the office to find them all on their hands and knees, searching. On the way back she found the diamond in her cleavage! You can image the banter from the males!

Also in the week the stem of her earring broke but luckily she caught the front part. A bracelet also needed its clasp sorting.

After dumping that lot off, unusually she wasn't in the mood for shopping seeming to buy at lot on line these days, and suggested a visit to Cardiff Castle for a cuppa. Well, it's one of my favourite places and a lovely place for photographs. The weather was sunny and classes of school children and tourists were in abundance.

I saw the stunning container of purple tulips and it didn't take much imagination to see that it'd make a brill foreground to the keep or tower in the grounds. There was a slight breeze and I managed to get the Welsh flag open.

Here's a very quick history of The Keep...

The original motte and bailey castle was built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders on top of a 3rd-century Roman fort. The castle was commissioned by either William the Conqueror or by Robert Fitzhamon, and formed the heart of the medieval town of Cardiff and the Marcher Lord territory of Glamorgan.

In the 12th century the castle began to be rebuilt in stone, probably by Robert of Gloucester, with a shell keep and substantial defensive walls being erected. Further work was conducted by Richard de Clare in the second half of the 13th century.