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Mae gwenynwr lleol yn ysgrifennu am ei brofiad o gadw gwenyn yn Aberdar…
Mmmm… mêl ar fy nhost y peth cyntaf yn y bore… mmm… arogl persawrus yn codi i’m ffroenau… mmm… mêl fy hunan o gwch gwenyn ar ddiwedd yr ardd… mmmm… miloedd o weithwyr fach ufudd yn paratoi bwyd melys o flodau hardd y Cwm…
Breuddwydiaf am fwyd yn aml ac fe freuddwydiais am fêl a chadw gwenyn mêl ers pan oeddwn i yn blentyn. Daeth cyfle i wireddu fy mreuddwyd y llynedd pan ddechreuais cadw gwenyn yn Aberdar.
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Four Men in a Tunnel in Aberdare… Taken during a very heavy downpour whilst volunteers with Sustrains were out on a Cycle Route signing and maintenance ride on the Cynon Trail.
Photograph by Dave Sewell and taken from the Aberdare Flickr photography group, join and share your own Aberdare photos today.
There were big smiles at the
Riverside Community Garden Project this Saturday…
With perfect timing the sun made a brief appearance for half an hour in Cardiff.
Jenny Howell (right in photo) gave a tour of this innovative project in the centre of Cardiff to a group of Permaculture Design students taught by Michelle Fitzsimmons (left in photo) of Edible Landscaping via Cardiff University.
Visit the Aberdare Blog Gallery for thousands more photos.
Via
Valleys Green …
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement, will be giving a talk in Cardiff between 7pm til 9pm, Thursday 12th of March @ the Temple of Peace in Cathays
ROB HOPKINS will bring the ultimate transition talk to Cardiff. Covering the foundations of why climate change and peak oil need urgent action and an outline why and how transition can provide some inspiration in working towards solutions, he’ll also present a few examples of what Transition projects around the UK are up to.
Tickets £4, £3 concessions (details about where to buy tickets will be circulated nearer the time)
Organised by Cardiff Transition Project.
Visit Rob Hopkins’ home page Transition Culture here
This man bears a heavy responsibilty on his shoulders…
Hard at work in October 2008, we photographed him at work carefully planting flower bulbs in the large raised flower ‘bowl’ outside Aberdare Library.
In late Februrary to March of this year – green fingers crossed – the flowers should come into bloom and brighten up a spring time Aberdare town.
Pontypridd could be the first plastic bag free town in Wales this week!
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is supporting Pontypridd Women’s Institute and Friends of the Earth in their campaign to make Pontypridd plastic-bag free with a special awareness day taking place this Friday.
Shopkeepers and market traders throughout the town are being encouraged to stop giving out plastic bags to shoppers in an effort to reduce the quantity sent to landfill. Pontypridd is the first town in Wales to date to launch such an exciting scheme.
Plastic Bag Free Pontypridd will take place in the town centre on Friday December 12th.
When will it be Aberdare’s turn to ban throwaway plastic shopping bags ?
A Public Meeting will be held in Aberdare on Thursday 9th October 2008, at the Sobells Sports Centre.
At the Meeting Rhondda Cynon Taf Councillors will decide on the new Gloucesters & Ironworks site planning application.
All Welcome.
A Planning Application has been re-submitted to the local Council. The plans are for 130 houses to be built on the Hirwaun Gloucesters and old Ironworks site. This area is much valued and used by the community as an area for recreation and leisure and home to an abundance of wildlife and flora.
Councillors voted to refuse planning permission in July 2008.
Local Council Planning Officers are trying to persuade Councillors to change their minds and approve this application, despite overwhelming objections from residents over the last 3 years.
The people of Hirwaun are not opposed to building new houses.
They are opposed to inappropriate overdevelopment at the expense of the whole community.
Hoo-bloody-rah! for Hirwaun people fighting for their own Community.
The most popular photos on Aberdare Blog for the past week have been those of Tabernacle Chapel, Aberystwyth.
Sadly the Chapel was destroyed in a great fire and subsequently demolished last Saturday.
This is such a waste. But perhaps we can draw a useful lesson from Aberystwyth by looking at our own communities and considering the empty buildings on our own doorstep!
We draw your attention today to a magnificent building several times larger than Tabernacle Chapel, Aberystwyth… the old school on the outskirts of Aberdare.
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As it is National Whale & Dolphin Watch Week 2008 we thought now is a good time to publish a photo of a Leaping Dolphin sculpture!
Thus we have uploaded photos of the Leaping Dolphin wooden sculpture at Aberporth village, near Cardigan.
In the Gallery in the S + M section here.
For more information on whale and dolphin spotting, take a peek at the Sea Watch Foundation website.
Postscript : One of the most depressing sights of the summer is the sight of people putting their ugly oily machines in the sea so that they can race about on show creating a lot of noise. The pollution caused by these useless toys threatens the natural habitat of many species, not just the bottlenose dolphins.
Once again
Groundwork Trust host another Green Dayz Weekend at the Fedw Hir Eco Centre near Llwydcoed. The event runs this weekend on Saturday 17th May and Sunday 18th May from 10am until 4pm.
The fun-filled ‘green weekend’ is all free with plenty of activities to entertain the whole family including hands-on pottery and ceramic session, handmade twig pencil-making, felt-making, face-painting, willow weaving, hurdle fencing and … welly wanging.
For Saturday only there was grand show of eagles and owls, including the world’s largest owl who was, thankfully, quite placid and friendly.
According to the Groundwork Trust, Welly Wanging is a sport that originated in Britain, most likely in Yorkshire. Competitors are required to hurl a Wellington boot as far as possible within boundary lines.
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.
Out of sight out of mind at Hirwaun Industrial Estate… we photograph the informal landfill site.
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.
In the brand-satured world we live in, corporations do their utmost to protect their brand name and logo. Shell – the Royal-Dutch Shell Group – are experiencing some difficulties protecting their logo at Trenant, near Hirwaun.
The Shell fuel station closed in January 2006, and the site has remained a rusting industrial eye-sore ever since. Soon after the business closed, they covered their signage and large logo with a white plastic sheeting to hide the ownership of the site.
Eventually this blew away. It was replaced by bright blue plastic material in February 2008. This looked like a cheap blue plastic bag one might use at nearby Rheola Market! This too blew away within a few weeks.
The fuel station is situated at the junction of Trenant and the ever-busy A4059 Aberdare to Hirwaun road. There is a pedestrian crossing within a few feet and this stretch of road has been the scene of many serious accidents over the years, hence the presence of a nearby speed camera.
As one of the UK’s largest corporations, one would expect a more responsible attitude towards the small community that has tolerated the presence of a fuel station since the 1960s.
Contact Details for Shell UK
- Telephone Freephone 0800 731 8888
- Address : Shell Customer Service Centre, Rowlandsway House, Rowlandsway, Wythenshawe. Manchester M22 5SB
- Email feedback-uk@shell.com
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Some one has gone to considerable trouble to dump this sofa near Meirion Street, Trecynon.
Only a mile away is Bryn Pica, the local recycling facilities.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council also collect this type of thing from your doorstep for FREE.
Jane from Mountain Ash blogs here with a story on the proposed opencast plans for Mountain Ash…
We had a knock at the door last night from a nice man called Ian. It was -3*C and he was going door to door with a petition. Ian was collecting residents signatures for his petition to raise awareness of one anonymous landowners intent to dig for coal on a small plot of land behind the graveyard in Caegarw, Mountain Ash.
We had been wondering about the sounds of heavy machinery and the Apex Drilling vans seen on our street over the past few weeks.
It appears that the plot of land was sold by Lord Aberdare in the ’60’s to this man and he has twice been denied permission to excavate the coal from a 100 year old tip.
We understand that the land has a preservation order on it due to its environmental value following the tree planting which has occured on it. It is close to a hospital and two
schools, not to mention hundreds of houses.
We wonder why this is being attempted again, when the council and Welsh Assembly Government have spent over £20 million on cleaning up the Cynon Valley, when there are plans for a new community hospital less than half a mile from the site and when there are concerned residents, the authorities have done nothing.
Has planning permission again been sought? If so, wouldn’t the residents who live within 500 metres of the plot have been told? Where is our voice in all this? We understand that the land is an old tip. We don’t want a return to dust and smoke – we value our environment and hope that the council and WAG do to. Anyone know anything about this???
The residents of Caegarw are a vociferous bunch and we welcome any information that can help us get to the bottom of the drilling, digging and the looming threat of coal dust again…
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