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Happy New Year! A little of what I got up to last year and how we celebrated NYE

Woohooo it’s 2017! I didn’t have anything massively awful happen to me in 2016, but I really didn’t have all that much good stuff happen either so quite happy to move on. It was just the year that never happened, the plans I had last Jan are still mostly unrealised and while I seemed to…

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St Davids Day

Yesterday was St Davids Day and I swapped nationality for the day and became honorary Welsh 🙂 Bonnet and all! Unlike St Patricks Day in Ireland, 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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I saved a Toad, as a thank you he modeled for ETSY.

On Thursdays I head to the Irish Thymes pub for the Caerphilly writers meeting. Usually I’m on my bike, but this week the weather was nasty and I got a lift. We parked in the train station and started walking towards the pub. Along the way I narrowly avoided stepping on a humongous Toad,…. or at…

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Happenings at Cardiff Castle

We got dressed up for the Joust, any excuse really 🙂 Everyone that knows me, knows I love Cardiff Castle, it’s an amazing place to go and walk around or just to chill out in the middle of the city. And the summer is when it’s at it’s best, obviously the weather helps, but mostly…

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