Return of the natives brings reminiscence and reflection

Comins Coch, Aberystwyth A December wedding seems to highlight the start of a new cycle of life much as the approach of the solstice does for the natural world

A village wedding is always an occasion, and draws folk back who have long since left to find their place in the wider world. At the reception I sat with several of the people my children went to school with. Though they are now long adult, I still carry a mental image of them as the band of youthful adventurers who explored the local countryside on bikes in the long summers of memory.

I'd hoped to hear stories of their new lives in places from London to Japan, but they wanted to discuss the things that have happened in the village since they left.