I was thrilled to be able to make it to the Hay Festival last Monday and to spend a day being entertained and educated. And in the sun as well! I packed my day in with talks and managed to snap a few photos in between. The talks I went to were: The Romanovs, Simon Sebag Montefiore…
Tonight was the second meeting of the Caerphilly Transition Group, and there was soup 🙂 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.” And Caerphilly has one now thanks to the…
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…
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…