With excellent timing, Tenby Civic Society's long-scheduled trip to St. Fagans Museum, Cardiff, enjoyed some of the best weather Wales has experienced for a long time.

Most members had been before, so changes since were of special interest, though one member was so young on his last visit there was little to recall!

Some members spent most time in the hall's gardens where flowers, the reflections in the ponds and the switch between the heat of the sun and the cool of the shade were much enjoyed.

The fullness with which the buildings on the other part of the site display the architecture, materials, interiors interior fittings and furniture of a particular point in history becomes a most captivating way of journeying back into the everyday past.

You can journey from 1805 to the 1950s by popping into each cottage in turn. Even the plants in each garden of the terraced row of cottages are from the same time as each interior. Sheds, pigsties, pigeon sheds were all there, too, as of course were the outdoor toilets with cut newspapers on a hook on the inside of the door.

There was the usual consumption of coffee, cake, contents of lunch boxes, rightly joined by the seasonal consumption of ice cream, as well as the clicking of cameras, unaccustomed application of sun cream and despite some dalliance in the huge shop there were no missing parties when departure time came and we all went home in very good humour.

During the journey back, a pointer to the real need for the new bypass under construction from Red Roses to Llanddowror was a car on its side amidst emergency vehicles and crews in that tree-lined bendy and dangerous existing section of the A477 the bypass will replace, sadly too late for some.