After the first workshop for Ysgol Gynradd Aberaeron in the morning, I returned back up to a potential site just north of Aberaeron and inland from Aberarth, on the grounds of a farm called Esgair Arth. It is the old house of a famous local witch called Mari Berllan Peter, about whom our artist Rebecca Wyn Kelly has done so much work already.
Mari Berllan Peter‘s old house by the Afon Arth
The journey was made with the Stori Wyllt teacher Carys and the headteacher Anwen Lloyd-Hughes, to make sure the site is okay for their students. I had been to the site before with the estate manager Rowan Martin from Oxygen Conservation, who has been really supportive. But I have the worlds worst sense of direction, and I took them to the wrong corner of the field!
If only I had looked at Ceredigion Council‘s Rights of Way map:
The site of the house is by the dogleg in the footpath by the river
After a last ditch search of the perimeter, I traced round red-faced back to the car and off we headed to Aberaeron but en-route we did see a magical Hare on the track. Mari Berllan Peter was rumoured to shape-shift into a Hare on occasion.
Ysgol Gynradd Aberaeron Workshop 1
Ysgol Llanilar Workshop 1
