Now that the evenings are getting lighter (yay!) going home doesn’t mean shutting the door for the night. Being able to shove on the wellies and go exploring as the sun is setting and the birds are chattering away is one of my favourite things about summer (and about living far away from London…) 🙂
Author: Nia
I live in Cardiff where I lug around a camera, write books and eat a lot of doughnuts. The Cardiff Cwtch is where I post my adventures.
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Home Sweet Home
Phew! The past week has been a total whirlwind; I’ve made cups of tea for more builders and handymen than for myself (that’s saying something – y’all know I’m a confirmed tea swigger), seen more cardboard boxes and packing paper than I ever have in my entire life and now own all the house catalogues. […]
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Land of my Mothers
At the end of a narrow country road that could easily compete with Alton Towers for twists, turns and sudden dips, is a quiet village that I visit once a year when the hedges are full of Daffs and the fields are full of lambs. In my last post I mentioned that it’s traditional in […]
Driving along winding roads past far-off fields full of sheep, overtaking tractors and travelling through quiet Welsh villages full of pastel-coloured terraced houses, car conversation always seems to steer in the same direction and to the same question. “Could you live in the middle of nowhere? Isolated, like this?” Before London I’d have scoffed and said […]
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Forest Farm
Here’s another place I had no idea existed until recently when I stumbled across Geraint Parry’s Instagram account (which is full of the most gorgeous pictures of Owls and Kingfishers). Forest Farm is wedged somewhere between the busy Coryton Interchange, Whichurch and ASDA and seems to be Cardiff’s best kept secret when it comes to spotting wildlife. The entrance […]
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