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.
Things got a bit ‘daffy’ in Pontypridd, when two giant stilt-walking daffodils visited Taff Street.
The delightful daffs were planted in town to entertain shoppers during the Six Nations weekend. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Town Centre Team arranged the unusual entertainment to encourage everyone to celebrate all things Welsh during the rugby championships.
It’s only a matter of time before the police swoop on the publishers and confiscate all copies of Tracy’s Tits by Ponty author Amanda Weeks … so I thought I’d better blog a review here pretty sharp.
Tracy’s Tits is a collection of short stories by Amanda Weeks, a fresh and exciting new voice writing from Pontypridd, the second-most important South Wales Valleys town after Aberdare.
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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 ?
They’re so posh in Ponty… no graffiti on the walls, just the National Anthem.
Photograph of Mill Street subway in the centre of Pontypridd : “Hen Wlad fy Nhadau” – ‘The Land of my Fathers’ is the Welsh National Anthem. The words of the National Anthem are attributed to Evan James from Pontypridd, and his son James James. In May 2006 there was a concert held in Ynysanghard Park, Pontypridd as a celebration to mark the 150th year since the Anthem was written.
Is this the most erudite shop assistant in Wales ?
Photograph : Former professor of archaeology, Mr Eric ‘the Relic’ Talbot, helping out at Pete’s Organics in Pontypridd recently.
Alfreds Restaurant and Bar
3, Market Street
Pontypridd
CF37 2ST
Tel. (01443) 404060
Alfreds is a stylish restaurant and bar situated in Market Street, Pontypridd. It was opened in late Summer 2004 and named after Alfred John who was the founder of Pontypridd Market. The same family also own the Market Tavern nearby.
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