Three weeks in the Welsh Borders. My Italian partner says: How strange and perverse, that medieval buildings should have been reduced to ruins! In Italy they all are perfectly preserved. But the policing of a Roman/Saxon/Norman boundary, and the Tudor decimation of establishments of the Church of Rome... plus the C20 under-development of rural Wales ... Thus bees, butterflies, house martins and buzzards all seem to be well, and hazels are cropping heavily.