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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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Country and bluegrass music will be served up at the next ‘Songs and Scones’ concert at the Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. The shows are targeted at older people, who can enjoy a scone and cuppa while listening to performances from Welsh musicians. Bluegrass/Country duo Ginge and Cello Boi will entertain at the next concert on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 from 1pm.
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Event : Welsh Cheese and BBQ night
WHERE : ‘Bunch of Grapes’ – Ynysangharad Road – Pontypridd
Date / Time : Wednesday 24th June @ 18:30hrs
What’s On : Welsh Cheeses – BBQ – Beers on stillage, Homemade Sausages – Small tutored Wine Tasting – a GuitarIst will be playing throughout the evening.
Guest Appearance : from Dave ‘Seidr Dai’ Matthews with some of his greatest Ciders, plus various bottled Ciders from across Wales.
Real Ales : Those outside on the night – wrapped in cooler jackets & on Gravity Dispense : Batemans – ‘GHA’ … Thornbridge – ‘Jaipur’ … Dark Star – ‘HopHead’
More choices of course on Handpull at the Bar.
Cardiff Vale and Valleys Beekeepers are holding a talk on Urban Beekeeping at Llandaff Parish Village Hall on Tuesday 10th March at 7.30pm.
Cardiff Vale and Valleys Beekeepers is a friendly association promoting the craft of bee keeping and the benefits of the products within the hive, to the public.
They meet in Llandaff Village hall on the second Tuesday of every month from September to March and have meetings during the summer months at members’ apiary sites.
To confirm details of this talk please see the Cardiff Beekeepers website.
Suffering from debilitating Blogger’s Block this week … as you may have noticed.
Please feel free to be distracted by this wonderful Photo of a Plate of Lightly Fried Bollocks from a Welsh ram.
Several people have commented that they had never heard of this tasty meal before. Read the full article here, ‘In Praise of Welsh Dangly Bits‘.
Pilot of Bombus Airlines : This is flight 634 heading inbound for Inula Helenium requesting immediate clearance to land over.
Control Tower for Inula Helenium : Permission granted Flight 634… welcome back.
The showy bright yellow flowers of the elecampane have nearly finished this summer. For about three weeks, the ten foot displays have attracted bumble bees, honey bees, butterflies and other useful critters.
Come winter, when the birds are getting hungry, they will feast on the dried seed heads. The remaining parts of the plant will decay and feed back into the soil. Nothing is wasted in nature, and nothing is created which can’t add back to the whole.
The warmest of Valleys welcomes was given to Prince Charles who visited Aberdare as part of a Royal Tour.
HRH Prince Charles the Prince of Wales came to see the new Visitor Centre at the world-famous Welsh Whisky Company distillery in the village of Penderyn, set in the beautiful landscape of Brecon Beacons National Park.
The whole village of Penderyn came to a standstill to greet and welcome Prince Charles.
Prince Charles takes a deep interest in the important things in life : the people, the land and the food we grow. He is a knowledgeable farmer who has championed the environmental cause for many, many years.
Thus we hope this Royal visit will encourage a greater interest in these subjects in Aberdare. We need to grow more of our own food in Aberdare and other former industrial areas and we need to husband and conserve the land and our resources more responsibly.
Enjoy Photos of the Prince in Penderyn on Penderyn Online
The Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival, organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, will this year be held in June in the larger surroundings of Cardiff International Arena.
Open Friday 13th & Saturday 14th June 11-11
Admission £5 includes souvenir glass and programme
Over 250 real ales, ciders, parries and foreign beers will be available at the festival. The 2008 Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival will be the biggest event of its kind in Wales and one of the largest beer festivals in the UK. CAMRA will aim to have every Welsh real ale brewery represented supplemented with other breweries from across Britain.
Entertainment will also be available at the CIA this year… Friday night will see Sheelanigig who offer an eclectic blend of folk, jazz and world music as well as an outstanding 7-piece UK soul band called Soul miners. Saturday will see the Fore Shadows and later on in the early evening the Treorchy Male Voice Choir will be raising the rafters of the CIA with their renditions of old favourites.
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Merthyr people raise a glass in celebration tonight as the local brewery wins the top award in Cardiff at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival 2007.
The Champion Beer of Wales competition has been won by Rhymney Brewery of Merthyr Tydfil with their classic beer, Dark. The competition, run by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, was held at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival at Cardiff City Hall today. The beer was judged by a panel of beer experts from a selection of more than 200 real ales that are brewed every year in Wales. The judges looked at the aroma, appearance, taste and aftertaste of the top beers of Wales and came to the unanimous decision that Rhymney Dark was the best beer brewed in Wales this year. The beer is 3.9% ABV.
Rhymney Brewery was set up 3 years in Merthyr Tydfil ago by father and son team Steve and Marc Evans. Said Steve Evans, “This award is something that we’ve been aiming for since we started the brewery. It’s a dream come to true to win Champion Beer of Wales and have the recognition from CAMRA”.
In the photograph : Steve Evans of Rhymney Dowlais Brewery
Cardiff is the Capital for Welsh Cwrw this week as it hosts the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival.
The hugely successful festival, which regularly attracts over 4000 customers has been organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, for 7 years at the historic venue. However thousands of thirsty customers need not fear as in June next year the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival will be even bigger and better at the new venue, Cardiff International Arena.
According to James “Arfur” Daley, CAMRA spokesperson, “We’ve had a good few years at City Hall but have outgrown the venue. There is no room for expansion at City Hall and the Festival is getting more and more popular every year. CAMRA will be sorry to say goodbye to City Hall but we’re determined to make the Festival this year the best ever. We’ve ordered more beer and cider this year and also will be open 5 hours earlier. It’s the final year at City Hall but let’s all look forward to the CIA in 2008”.
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Today we munched on the dangly bits of a Welsh sheep.
Fried lightly with onions to be precise.
Click on the attached photograph for a larger version.
Bought from Ken the butcher’s roadside meat emporium near Caerphilly.
Some people call them “sweet breads” and others “sweet meat”.
They are, of course, the testicles of a ram.
What do they taste like ?
De-licious. The texture is like a lighter version of liver.
There are an awful lot of sheep and cattle in Wales… but testicles are hard to come by as these animals are usually castrated young.
It seems such a pity that we waste all these dangly tasty bits !
… He must have pizza.
We’ve been hauling herbs and other food delights from one particular Aberdare shop for twenty or more years. It started with a vegetarian experiment and a jar of Brewer’s Yeast at Sian’s Natural Selection Health Foods shop, Whitcombe Street, Aberdare. We’ve kept coming back again, and again, and again. In today’s herb stash we have chamomile and yarrow. 60 pence in total. A thrifty thrill!
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb.
Give a man a salad and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to make a pretty face with a salad and you keep him amused for a lifetime. Aberdare Blog Proverb.
It feels so much better buying local at Rheola Market, from a small family business with their roots in the community.
There’s a lot more colour and conversation and warmth than the sweatshop down the road they call a supermarket.
No one asks “Have you got a Club Card?”
No false smiles and “Happy to Help” badges.
There are no trolleys so it’s not like the M4 in rush hour.
Walk as fast, or as slow as you like.
There are no credit cards, cashpoint machines or “cash-back” in this market.
Remember the days you counted your own money ?
It feels good to feel the money once again, passing it from hand to hand.
It’s all lit by sunlight… the good old fashioned way.
There is no tannoy system to announce a special offer on tangerines, tampons, and tulips.
No signs of cameras watching your every move as you secretly squeeze an orange, scratch your balls, or casually rub your fingers along a parsnip to check it is OK.
“Is that all, my love?” asks the fruit and veg man.
“Yes, that’s lovely, love.”
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