So, it turns out relocating from London to Cardiff is tough. Last Saturday we finally began the monstrous task of moving all our boxes of crap stuff (all 62 of them…) from the storage locker – where they’ve sat untouched for the past four months – to our new house. We carted four trolley-loads down from […]
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Newport Wetlands
Last week I went for a walk around Newport Wetlands and ended up getting lost. And I don’t mean lost in the whimsical wandering sense, I mean, send out a frigging helicopter lost. I had no idea that the RSPB Wetlands Walk turned into the Wales Coast Path and somewhere past the lighthouse I took […]
Back in the day a trip into town with the girls meant a slow swagger up Queen Street (We’re talking long before the days of St David’s 2…), a cheeky Maccy D’s and then the bus back. I’d whinge all the way back because we’d never get round to going into all the quirky, unique […]
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Sully Island
Did you know that the Penarth RNLI once nicknamed summer the ‘Sully Season’ because of the number of people wandering out to the island across the rocky causeway only to get marooned by the tide? Saying that, I wouldn’t mind being marooned on Sully Island during the summer; I can imagine camping over there with plenty of food a fire […]
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Bara Brith (Mottled Bread)
I think every Welsh kid makes Bara Brith at some point. Either with your mamgu yn y gegin, peering over the counter-top on tip toes (…maybe). Or like me, you got to make a lumpy burnt mess in the school kitchen, but never bothered eating it because ew, dried fruit, and I’d much rather have that packet of nerds […]
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