There is no need to panic, the green-haired ‘aliens’ currently walking from Hirwaun via Aberdare to Abercynon are friendly!
And they are raising lots of hard cash for Macmillan Cancer Care Support as part of the annual Macmillan Walk.
Please feel free to liberate all spare change in your pockets, purses, piggy banks… it’s all for a good cause.
You have spent weeks biting your nails wondering when it will be delivered… and then suddenly it arrives.
It is important that upon delivery you take hold of your book, gently flick the pages, weigh it in your hand, and perhaps let your gaze focus on a few sentences.
Show the book you love it.
Close your eyes and breathe in deeply.
Imagine your first few pages and a long journey ahead that could last days, weeks, months, or years.
Run your fingers slowly down the spine.
And then slowly mouth the name of your book…
Join the demonstration against the proposed military academy in South Wales.
Saturday 26 April, Assemble 1.30 pm, Cathays Park (opp. City Hall & National Museum)
The Military Academy is funded by defence multi-nationals like Raytheon, the manufacturer of cluster-bombs, £14 billion is being spent on this huge complex when we need hospitals & schools.
Needless to say the multinationals will be making a large profit on the scheme. It is also the biggest PFI (Private Finance Initiative) in history, and probably the biggest ever award of taxpayers money to Wales:
Why is there always a blank cheque for war, but no blank cheque for vital public services?
Called by the Stop the St Athan’s Military Academy Campaign and supported by UK Stop the War Coalition, CND Cymru, Cynefinywerin and many other organisations. People will be coming from all over Wales and beyond.
For background information on the Military Academy, see:
http://www.cynefinywerin.org.uk/index.php?docid=265
Image by Carlos Latuff
The following photos were snapped in Cwmdare. In the first photo, the Tonglwydfawr Inn. The latter two landscape photos were taken from the northern end of Dare Valley Country Park. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version…
Postscript : How do you put a price tag on a landscape or a Welsh hillside ?
In the eyes of bourgeois industrial capitalism, this Welsh hillside in Cwmdare represents a resource to be exploited. The coal was mined from this area over a period of around one hundred years, exploiting thousands of workers during that period. Now that the coal has gone, the capitalist class see the potential of exploiting the landscape to harness a modicum of wind energy, albeit less energy than that invested in erecting and maintaining the wind turbines in the first place. It’s all very silly of course, but then capitalism is an irrational system.
Adrian Shepherd is fighting for the survival of the Allotment Gardens at Trallwng, near Pontypridd.
This is the second allotment site in Rhondda Cynon Taf threatened with closure.
It defies common sense that in a time of rapidly rising energy costs, places to grow food locally are being stolen from communities in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Read the full story on Valleys Green.
Building and household waste, electrical equipment such as fridge and vacuum cleaner, clothes, you name it, it’s being dumped in this corner of Hirwaun Industrial Estate.
Photo taken on April 1st 2008, around 7 pm.
Are we being obsessed by the blossom and trees at Aberdare Park ? No, not really.
We are learning to enjoy and appreciate the here and the now of this little nature reserve on our doorstep.
The more time we spend time through the seasons in Aberdare Park, the more life we discover…
In the quiet north-end of Aberdare Park near Park Lane, Trecynon there are many beds of rose bushes and an assortment of Japanese Flowering Cherry trees.
At the moment the scene is very grey and sombre, in stark contrast to the remainder of the park, now coming back into leaf and colour with splashes of daffodils, crocuses, and tulip.
The image on the left shows two photos stuck together. On the leftmost part, today’s sombre scene, on April 1st 2008. On the right, is the same area in a photo taken on May 9th 2006. Click on the photo for a larger version.
There are more photos in the Gallery : the April Prelude here; and the May blossom here.
