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Competition time!

It’s been a while since I ran a competition and I’ve been playing with the idea for this one for a while, so here goes! Each month for the foreseeable future I’m going to be offering two prizes, one picked at random, the other forย the entrant that makes me smile the most ๐Ÿ™‚ This month…

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Etsy Captains Summit

Two weeks ago I go the chance to go to the Etsy Captains Summit. This was my second year going so a really great chance to see lots of the lovely people I met last year, as well as meet lots of new people, here’s last years blog post.ย  And this year it wasn’t all…

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Transition Caerphilly

Tonight was the second meeting of the Caerphilly Transition Group, and there was soup ๐Ÿ™‚ย  For anyone not familiar with it the Transition movement is “a grassroot community project that seeks to build resilience in response to peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability by creating local groups.”ย And Caerphilly has one now thanks to the…

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My first protest!

On Saturday I attended a protest in Cardiff, my first ever! It was against the Trade Union bill that the government is currently trying to bring in. I’ll be honest I went along to take photos for a project I’m doing for a course in ffotogallery. I knew Jeremy Corbyn would be there and I…

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St Davids Day

Yesterday was St Davids Day and I swapped nationality for the day and became honorary Welsh ๐Ÿ™‚ Bonnet and all! Unlike St Patricks Day in Ireland,ย Wales doesn’t get a bank holiday for St Davids Day, which was quite a blow to me my first year working over here! So the parade is part of a…

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