Llanelli House was built in 1714 by Thomas Stepney, MP for Carmarthenshire. Occupyinga central position, opposite the parish church and close to the library, it is a vast town house.

John Wesleywas a guest here on one of his journeys through Wales spreading the gospels.

For many years the houselanguished in a state of decay but, in1998, local personalities decided something should be done about it.

By a stroke of good fortune, Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen, interiors guru and connoisseur of old buildings, presented a programme about Llanelli House, giving it tremendous publicity.

This led to 3.4 million of Lottery Heritage Funding.

The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who killed herself after being falsely accused of a liaison with the married butler.

This week the internet has been full of spoof pictures of the 'ghost'.

Apparently, the genuineapparition was last seen in the sixties by two young girls, one of whom's mother was a cleaner there.

My next news item today concerns the skua birds I mentioned last week.

Not them, actually, but only in as much as the Great Skua originates in the Faroes and the knitters there are experiencing a boom. This is to do with a television seriescalled 'The Killing', first shown in Denmark in 2007.Sarah Lund, detective, has turned a knitted woolly into a fashion item, a jumper sprinkledwith snowflakes.

Thousands of these garments have been sold, knitted from Faroese wool treated with lanolin.

At 240 each, they sound like heirlooms to meand buyers await them eagerly. Thirty Faroese women knit in their island homesand the really quick ones can finisha jumper in a day.

In the 1900's it was the custom for boys from the age of fourteen and men to spend six months at sea, clad in thesejumpers.

Ican't wear wool, it's too itchy for me, though it looks lovely.