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Postcard From Penarth to Sully

23rd April 2018 Jonathon Davies 1820 Comments

Penarth is literally just around the corner from Cardiff. Home to a famous pier and much else besides. The town itself has a pleasant promenade to walk along, and numerous eateries along the sea front. [more…]

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Shunting Cobbles

5th April 2018 Sweaty Dave 1907 Comments

With spring just around the corner, allegedly, this winter project should be coming to a close, but so far there is little sign of that. The return of the eldest son from Uni meant decamping [more…]

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Postcard from the Isle of Man

3rd April 2018 Going Postal 1324 Comments

As some of you may have noticed, I am a long-time resident of the evil tax dodging empire otherwise known as the Isle of Man. Apart from the beer guzzling, rubber burning hedonistic frenzy of [more…]

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Postcard from The Blorenge

22nd March 2018 Jonathon Davies 1357 Comments

(Part 3 of my walking series. Part 1 and part 2 also available.) Blorenge or sometimes The Blorenge is a prominent hill overlooking the valley of the River Usk in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. It is [more…]

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Sheds

19th March 2018 Colin Cross 1407 Comments

As I get older I find myself, more and more, thinking about how different life was in the 1950’s and 60’s and also how, through the eyes of  a child, things seemed so very simple. [more…]

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Shunting Prototypes

13th March 2018 Sweaty Dave 2126 Comments

Work on the layout has slowed a little with the recent weather disruptions affecting routines. The successful completion of the cyclists/ Sweeney run was also the closing of a chapter. As you can see Wiggins [more…]

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Postcard from Taormina, Sicily

9th March 2018 Going Postal 1198 Comments

May 2017 Taormina was the venue for the G7 attended by the various world leaders and as I watched I remembered my holiday there. It was 1980 and we booked a fortnight knowing nothing of [more…]

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Postcard from Sirhowy Valley Country Park

5th March 2018 Jonathon Davies 1958 Comments

This is another of my favourite places to walk. (In a previous post I covered Llwyn-on.) A quick jaunt from Cardiff eastbound on the M4 to junction 28 then up the A467 will bring you [more…]

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Shunting into February

19th February 2018 Sweaty Dave 1782 Comments

Thank you for all your kind comments upon this series of posts. As you’ve probably noticed the cyclists aren’t as reliable as they need to be, and that has been bothering me. They’re meant to [more…]

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