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I’m definitely an Autumn/Winter girl. I love the cold; snow, thick jumpers and Autumn leaves. But if I had to pick another favourite time of year, it would now. There’s just something about May, you know? Those first summer days when the blossom’s out and we get a tease of what’s to come weather-wise (…or not, […]
If you follow me on Twitter you’ll probably have noticed me complaining about spending my weekends digging holes and getting mud just about everywhere. See, I’m in the middle of turning the mud behind my house into something that’s supposed to look like a garden. It’s been tough and there have been tears (especially when […]
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 […]
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, […]
Apparently over last weekend the A470 was clogged with would-be sledgers and snow-boarders desperate to make the most of the only snow in South Wales. I sulked when we didn’t see a single flake in Cardiff, so when the weather was good on Tuesday I forced everyone out the door for a wintery walk up Pen-y-Fan.
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