Llanrhaeadr show yesterday, and the weather turned fine after an early morning cloudburst.
The show was one of the best attended of recent years, with high standards in all classes, particularly the pony section.
Entering the showground, I did a double-take at the incongruous sight of an enclosure what I thought were llamas, but in fact turned out to be alpacas, from a herd established at the wonderfully-named Sodom Hall, near Bodfari. They were beautiful, gentle animals and produce, I am told, exceptionally fine wool.
If anyone knows why the area they come from is called Sodom, I will be fascinated (albeit a little nervous) to hear.
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Welcome back.
Really nice to see life returning to this site. I thought it had died. I hope that your new job is going well David and that residents respond by visiting the resuscitated patient.
Many thanks, John and Monty. I want to do as much blogging as I can over the summer, but in all honesty I don’t know if I will be able to keep it up when Parliament returns. A pity, because I do enjoy it.
Am finding the job very satisfying, thanks, Monty.
David, It is a signposted place and as a youth I recall a photo of one of the roadsigns turning up on Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life. All I can really point you to is that in the centre of this little hamlet is a little chapel called Sodom Chapel now converted to a house, as with many of the the Hebrew place names dotted across Wales quite why this congregation chose Sodom I don’t think any one knows.. is there a Gomorrah anywhere.
I live in the “Black Country” in the West Midlands and my wife’s family have attended Sodom Chapel in Coseley (between Dudley and Wolverhampton) for generations. It was nick-named Sodom because of the debauchery and bad behaviour of the locals in the old days! The church is actually Upper Ettingshall Methodist Church and recently celebrated its 160th anniversary with an exhibition. Manymembers and locals still refer to it as Sodom Chapel.Perhaps it’s easier to spell than Gomorrah. The worst behaviour now is stretching out the sermon.