After our “blizzard” of Friday morning which left about 4-inches of snow in and around central Cardiff, and then with the sky pouring white stuff most of the day on Friday, Cardiff Council seems to have retreated and called it quits. I haven’t seen a council vehicle in days, the roads are a mess, nothing has been cleared since the snow dropped and this is causing chaos – with cars getting stuck, unable to move at junctions and all normal [...]

Has Cardiff become a great city, or great big mall? Thousands of houses and apartments have been built in what are now trendy areas of Cardiff, the Bay, the city centre and Roath, but why is there a demand for apartments in Cardiff? Has the population of Cardiff grown? Are more people naturalising here? According to census figures, no. And if they were, why would they come? Is Cardiff a cultural mecca? No, we have an opera house, some small [...]

“You must hate the commute” they say to me, my friends. “I walk 5 minutes to the train station, sit on my arse in a semi-comfortable seat for an hour, I get off and walk 10 minutes to the office” I reply, “It’s not exactly strenuous”. I left the company that I started in May 2009 to experience more new things, that and the working relationship between me and my business partner had become strained through all the late night [...]

The Welsh Assembly Government have made plans to enact law from March 2011 whereby any outlet within the confines of the Welsh border that supplies plastic carrier bags to consumers charge a mandatory minimum of 7p per bag – instead of the usual practice of giving them away for free that has stood firmly for as long as I have been alive. Some retailers already impose a charge, in the case of the small retailers to recoup the cost of [...]

This tidbit from Annie Hovey, regional officer for the National Association of Headteachers Wales must go down as quote of the week. On the subject of 70 parents of children attending St Alban’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Tremorfa holding a meeting to discuss; Why 3 teachers have been suspended with no reason given to them, nor any reasons being forthcoming; Why the school that their children attend has a high teacher turnover rate and; Pupils as old as 9 not [...]