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Cardiff Shopping

Base + Barley (and shopping…)

I ♡ Cardiff shopping.  I loved it back when Queen Street was where things were happening (and when the Capitol wasn’t a wasteland of empty shops and shutters – can’t someone do something about that?  It’s looking so sad!) and I love it even more nowadays.  Sure there are all the High Street names you’d expect to […]

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Writing

Review: ‘Big Magic’ by Liz Gilbert

I am a terrible writer.  Not because I can’t construct a sentence or create breathing characters or weave a plot with as many twists and intricacies as a Turkish rug.  Actually, I’m pretty good at those things (most of the time… I think). What I’m God-awful horrendous at is the whole process of writing.  Inspiration burns brighter […]

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Cardiff

Nine

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Everything Else The Cwtch

What I learned about moving house

Moving house is both the best of times and the worst of times.  When we decided, well over a year ago now, that we were ready to move, I don’t think I fully understood the total upheaval and emotional torture that lay ahead.  My mother, in the midst of the madness said that the three […]

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Around Wales

For those about to rock…

This is a story about a French pirate, a cave and a very pissed off Welshman. Five hundred or so years ago, the South Wales coastline was terrorised by a Breton pirate called Colyn Dolphin.  He sailed his ship called the Sea Swallow from Lundy Island off the Devon coast, was feared by sailors and soldiers alike, […]