Cardiff Half Marathon

Sunday 14th October is the date for the 2012 Cardiff Half Marathon. This year taking a totally new route which does actually run the full 13.1 miles (unlike 2010’s route which was a bit short!) This year beginning outside Cardiff Castle, down around Cardiff Bay then back up via the City Centre then a loop […]

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CARDIFF-Typomap of Cardiff

A Typomap is a collection of cleverly designed set of maps consisting of countries, cities, seas, and all other topography made out of typeface letters. So essentially :- Typographic + Map = TypoMap Here is a famous example that has already been made and gave me the inspiration to create one for my home city […]

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PHOTOS-Cardiff Half Marathon 2011

Sunday 16th October was the date for the 2011 Cardiff Half Marathon. This year taking in a new route which does actually run the full 13.1 miles (unlike last year’s route which was half a mile too short! ooops) Beginning outside the old Welsh Assembly building ‘Crickhowell house’ 15,000 waited with anticipation to make their […]

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ENVIRONMENT-World Toilet Day!

Home cleaner brand, Domestos, has teamed up with a few charities to launch ‘World Toilet Day’ on the general public. It is an initiative to help reduce the amount of flushing we do as a nation to save water and resources. They have set up a website http://www.flushtracker.com where after typing in your postcode the […]

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Cardiff Underground Map

Those loverly people over at I Loves The ‘Diff have produced a wicked map showing the underground network of Cardiff and beyond – if one was ever to exist of course!!! It’s in the exact style of the famous London Underground map as created by Harry Beck and looks pretty damn authentic to me! The […]

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WALK-Blaen Y Glyn near Brecon

Twas Saturday 29th January and the 4 week alcohol-free detox was coming to an end. What else better than to arrange a leisurely walk around some mountains on a bitterly cold day with temperatures hovering around minus 4oC!

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X-FACTOR-Boyband excitement leads to amusing Cloud in Cardiff

Boyband 1 Direction appeared on XFactor this weekend on ITV1. @stuism noticed and captured this image showing the bands excitement after their performance on the programme. This photo entitled “Wand Erection” (see what they’ve done there ©TheWalesShow) has been circulating around the Cardiff Tweet-land and beyond into the rest of the UK and has certainly […]

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Pont Y Werin bridge opens (at last!)

Above is the picture of the scene from July 2009 – exactly ONE year ago to the day that it shouldve opened! All you can see is the trunk road across the River Ely which doesnt allow any pedestrian or safe cycle access between Cardiff Bay and Penarth. Hence a solution was required to allow […]

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