OLYMPICS – Gold stamp issue for Geraint Thomas

To help celebrate and commemorate each gold medal Team GB win at the London 2012 Olympic Games – The Royal Mail are releasing special edition stamps for each momentus win. The British Men’s Cycling team shattered their own world record as they defended the men’s Olympic team pursuit title to win a gold medal for […]

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OLYMPICS – Lego figures getting ready

To celebrate the Olympic Games 2012 coming to the UK and being held in London – Lego have released the latest in their line of Minifigures. There are a total of nine Team GB Lego minifigures to collect. These include a brawny boxer, a stealth swimmer, relay runner, judo fighter, tactical tennis player, flexible gymnast, […]

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RUGBY-It’s all starting to get a bit exciting!

Earlier walking through Cardiff City centre and it just dawned on me how significant this whole rugby thing is! Shivers were sent down my spine the more I thought about it. This is the first time since the inaugral Rugby World Cup in 1987 that Wales have progressed to the semi-final stage. This time everything […]

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PHOTOS-Cardiff Harbour Festival

On the weekend beginning Friday 26th August, 2011 the Cardiff Harbour Festival began a full Bank Holiday weekend of activities around Cardiff Bay. (The old Tiger Bay to the rest of the world!) The Roald Dahl Plas was transformed into a busy mecca of food stalls, fish filleting demonstrations with activities and performances for the […]

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Ospreys take over at Cardiff City Stadium

Ok headline attention grabbing over and all Cardiff Blues fans can now calm down! But a local flying team from the Swansea area called Team Osprey were caught flying directly over the Cardff City Stadium earlier. The 3 strong team of Russian Yak52’s were seen leaving Cardiff Bay, passing directly over the Leckwith stadium and […]

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PHOTOS-Royal Welsh Show 2011

First up some background on The Royal Welsh Show:- “The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society was formed in 1904, and the first show was held in Aberystwyth in the same year. The Royal Welsh Show attracts around a quarter of a million people over the course of the four days and is supported by approximately 17,000 […]

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PHOTOS-Wales Air Show 2011

On the weekend of 9th and 10th July it was time for the annual Wales Air Show to be held in Swansea Bay. The weather forecast didn’t look amazing for the Saturday (a bit better for the Sunday)but this didn’t deter the thousands of spectators who turned up and lined the rim of Swansea Bay […]

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FOOTBALL-Blunders that made it to tv

Well on the day that Dave Jones was effectively sacked from Cardiff City and the same day that Swansea City beat Reading 4-2 at Wembley – Sky Sports just couldn’t get their heads around the fact that there is another team in Wales …ummm.. called Swansea (someone let their graphics department know about what their […]

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PHOTOS-Cardiff football tournament at Sully

On Saturday 12th June the latest Youth Summer Festival Football Tournament was held at Sully Sports and Social Club with their vast fields. The site is in Sully, just outside Cardiff, and featured teams from throughout South Wales, including Rhoose, Cardiff and Barry. The forecast was good but luckily there was some cloud and blustery […]

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