The Cardiff Cwtch - Welsh Food, Fashion and LifestyleI’m an expert on eating brownies, not making them. I bake a lot, but the humble brownie is something I’d never bothered to try – until recently. Now I can’t stop making them (luckily I’ve got plenty of test subjects who are more than willing to scoff my experimental batches!). Mint-Chocolate Chip Brownies 160g butter/margarine 100g […]
A couple of weeks ago we went for a late walk and saw bats. Back when we lived in London we used to see them whizzing around at dusk down by the river – they’re really easy to confuse with a small bird and the first time that Sunny saw one he thought it was a […]
You know you’re getting on a bit when you get as excited about a new sofa being delivered as you did about Christmas Day when you were a kid (…okay, I still get excited about Christmas Day, but you know what I mean…). The reason for this probably has something do with the fact that […]
If you’re not a Welsh speaker then allow me to translate. Fforest Fawr means “Big Forest”. Well, whoever was given the honour of naming the vast woodland that sprawls and stretches out beyond Castell Coch (much like me in bed on a Sunday morning) got it spot on. If anything it’s fawr iawn (very big). You could get […]
I love those long summer days when you spend the day whole day out in the sun and then stay out long after it sets. Saturday was one of those days – definitely my favourite so far this summer. In the evening we went down to Barry Island to see the return of Isle of Fire; the promenade […]
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