Architects, whey can't they design a house properly!

I've lived in a number of houses in my life, they all shared one thing in common, they were designed by morons.
My first house where I grew up for example.  Built into the side of a steep hill, the back garden was level with the roof, going out the garden to play was like scaling the north face of the Eiger.  Well what else could they do I hear people say?  Easy build the bloody thing on flat ground for a start, there was no real shortage of it in my part of Wales, yes we do have a lot of hills but there's plenty of flat ground too.
Then my next home was built of a reclaimed bog, again 1000's of acres of good land all around it so they built of the cheap crap bit.
The next place I lived was on an island, no really a traffic  island surrounded by a road, why build there for heavens sake? the poor old dears had to dice with death just to get to the shops, and there was nowhere to park either, great thinking lads.
Then we get to the insides, the kitchens are always too small (obviously designed by someone who doesn't know how to cook) with daft things like you have to close the kitchen door to open the fridge etc.  The attic trapdoors are always at the top of the stairs, why? it's easily the most dangerous place to put it, one slip and you fall two floors instead of one, bloody silly idea.
The light fittings, now this really should be easy, just bung it in the middle.... so why don't they, in most houses I've been the fittings are well off centre, this means you often have to faff about with extra lights to light the room properly, and while were on the subject, why wire all the lights together in one light, a junction box would be far easier and it means a celing fitting can be easily changed.
Not where I live it can't, we took down the bedroom fitting to have it replaced only to find about 20 wires inside it, there wasn't enough room in the new fitting for all the wires, and having it all rewired was too expensive, so I'm stuck with the old fitting.

Mary Beard twitter and facebook

A lady called Mary Beard (who I've never met) is suffering a lot of abuse on twitter, the poor woman has received rape and death threats among other things.  Now nobody should have to put up with this, but it seems the Internet is left open for people to abuse each other with little recourse.
Frankly I don't do twitter, I did set up an account, I even made two posts... the first was something like 'this is my first post'  the second was 'I'm making a cup of tea'  Then I sat down and realised what a load of crap that was and why in the world would anyone want to bother reading it?
Face book I did for longer, I could sort of see the point, you could tell your mates you'd be down the pub at 8 o clock, or whatever (it also tell the buglers your out) post your pics for your mates or family to see etc etc.  But and it's a big but, the big problem with both twitter and face book is that other people can write on your page, this leaves it open to abuse.
Now I had something of a face book expert set mine up, so all the privacy setting were just right, but I still had people turn up as friends I'd never heard of and not accepted, but they got past the so called privacy settings, the same with total strangers writing on my wall.  It was a farce, there was bugger all private about it either, I only wanted my friends to see what I was posting but it seems anybody with a computer can see whats happening.  I gave up and closed it down,  I feel for poor Mary, she's trying to share with her friends and getting the moron trolls as well.

The Purge (film review)

I saw the purge tonight, so here's my review.

The plot is simple, one night a year, any and all crime is legal, robbery, murder do as you please. 
The story revolves around a wealthy family's fight to stay alive on a night where the world around them goes mad for 12 hours, with intruders in the house they must fight back.

Sadly the film leaves a lot to be desired, with a slow start it takes a while to get into the action.  Then largely filmed in the dark (gloom vision) it's difficult to follow some bits as you simply can't see what happening, the acting was poor, with very unconvincing characters, the baddies were totally over the top for the most part.

To be honest I wanted the family killed by about half way through, by the end I'd have cheerfully done it myself.
Waynes rating   3/10   save the money and see something else.

Sgwd y bedol (the horseshoe falls)

This falls is reached by starting at the Angel pub in Glynneath (just off the A465) cross the road and go through the gate opposite the toilets.  Follow the path to the wooden bridge across the river and after crossing the bridge turn right and follow the path, after a bit of a walk (10 mins or so) you'll come to the open area by the horseshoe falls, take care as the rocks can be slippery.
Follow the rocks up the left side of the river (same side the paths on) and you come to Sgwd Ddwli isaf and a little further Sgwd Ddwli uchaf, my favorite out of these falls.

Heros and icons (sort of comic-con event) Margam park

Well I visited this event at Margam park Wales uk last weekend, what a disappointment, the stars consisted of an umpalumpa from the Gene Wilder Charlie and the chocolate factory, a woman who plays a body double to an actress from Dr Who, and another woman who played a statue in Dr Who  Wow big time stars then! the rest of the show consisted of a few stalls selling mostly star wars stuff, a replica tardis (see pics) and possibly the worst home made K9 (from dr who) I've ever seen, honestly it looked nothing like K9, it even had a big red flashing light on it back.
I for one won't be going again!

Sunset and sandcastle

Here's a few from last night, bit of a disappointment with the sunset, lots of cloud on the horizon.

Scwd Einon Gam waterfall Glyn neath

One of the most difficult of the waterfalls to reach.
The starting point is the Angle pub in Glyn Neath, go through the little gate and follow the path along the river, when you come to the footbridge cross and turn left left towards Scwd Gwladus waterfall.  Just before the falls itself a path on the right goes up to the top of the falls, once at the top (take care people have fallen over the edge of the falls looking down) follow the river upstream. 
This is where it gets tricky, the river goes through narrow gorges which means crossing the river several times, and even walking up the river itself, there are bits of paths along the banks but it's hard going, the path along the bank also climbs a narrow 'sheep' track at one point but it's quite dangerious so I'd advise walking up the river here.
After a mile or so you'll reach the rock ledge infront of the falls proper, the only way I've found to the top of this ledge is on the right bamk and is a scramble over another sheep type track, but does offer access to the ledge itself and the best view of the falls behind.

SAFETY ADVISE
Do not even attempt these falls if the water is high, and in heavy rain be advised levels can rise quickly.  I'd strongly advise you do not attempt these falls as a solo walk too, not many people visit these and even a minor injury could leave you stranded with no mobile phone signal, it could be days or weeks before your found.
The rocks in the river are very slippery, I'd take a sturdy walking stick or similar to help ballance in the slippery bits, and please take care.