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Eight

That was my week, how was yours?  ♡  

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Cefn Onn Park

Walking up past the pond to the big field (…not as big as I remember…) at the top of Cefn Onn Park is something every North Cardiff kid does at some point.  Despite being penned in by the train line and the M4, the only sounds you’ll hear are bird chatter and kids voices echoing from somewhere […]

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Penarth

Here’s a true story.   Back in the twenties, my grandmother worked in Penarth.  She’d just moved down to Cardiff from Bath with her mother and was working as a maid in one of the huge houses up on Marine Parade which, at the time, was owned by a retired old sea captain. All very […]

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Project 365: Week 7

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The Pumping Station

I love old. I love old jokes, I love old films (if you haven’t seen Some Like it Hot then we can’t be friends!), old cars, old furniture.  I love old books (I’m one of those weirdos who wedges her nose between the pages and inhales that lovely musty scent)… My father’s pretty old and I love him too – […]