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DIG-IT Gardening advice for the new (and not so new) gardener Well, at the time of writing (mid July), the weather has been dreadful – so much for July being a hot and balmy month! My poor bedding plants looked
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ARE YOU A LANDLORD? Be aware of imminent changes to lettings legislation says Hannah McCartan McCartan Lettings, Killay THE LEGISLATION – THE HOUSING (WALES) ACT 2014 – gained Royal Assent last September and is due to come into effect this October. It
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Hoverflies – The Great Pretenders It is a sunny summer’s day and you are walking along a scenic path fringed with wild flowers. Suddenly a black and yellow insect flies up from a flower and hovers on the spot, right
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Taming your feral or stray cat It’s not easy to make friends with a stray or semi feral cat; a cat will be thinking who is this big thing trying to pick me up? Their defence mechanism will kick in
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Species of the month: Domestic Cat Welcome to this month’s Bird Watch. I’m one of two volunteer Ambassadors for the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) Garden BirdWatch Scheme in South Wales. Each month I introduce you to a bird or
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Millennium Coastal Path This month KIM JONES offers us a family friendly ride around the coast of Carmarthen. It’s a route that John Ashley has previously taken as a walk and it makes an equally enjoyable bike ride ‘Mummy, will the
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Hot shots Well, this month I was supposed to be bringing you an article on my trip to the Wave Garden in Snowdonia. Unfortunately, I am going a few days later than expected which means I’m missing the deadline for
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My TOP 5s for Autumn CHANTELE HAS BEEN CHECKING OUT THE TRENDS FOR NEXT SEASON AVAILABLE ON-LINE AND IN THE HIGH STREET STORES We are coming up to that awkward time in the year – we haven’t had much of
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THE AGE OF DISCOVERY A few years ago a fellow motor-noter gave me a piece of, what turned out to be, very useful advice: “Never” he said “turn down an invitation – if you’re fortunate to get one – from
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SWANSEA FESTIVAL OF TRANSPORT 2015 ASHLEY LOVERING is the man behind the increasingly popular SWANSEA FESTIVAL OF TRANSPORT. He has seen the festival grow since the very first one that was held at Swansea Airport on Fairwood Common back in
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RUNNING INTO PAIN Summer is here and people who haven’t run before are hitting the pavements in an attempt to shift the winter flab. Keen amateur runners are upping their mileage, making the most of the long and (hopefully) warm
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Problems in Pregnancy ROSIE IS AN OSTEOPATH WITH SWANSEA BODY KINETICS AT THE NATURAL HEALTH SERVICE IN PAGE STREET, SWANSEA. THIS MONTH ROSIE OFFERS ADVICE TO WOMEN IN PREGNANCY Throughout pregnancy a women’s body undergoes a remarkable amount of change
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RACHEL HATCHER is a Sports Therapist and lead coach at Swansea Water Polo Club. Rachel is owner of The Hub, a Sports Therapy Clinic in The Phoenix Centre, Townhill. LOWER BACK PAIN As a Sports Therapist I am specifi-cally concerned
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Equisetum Is the sole survivor of the Equisetales family; huge tree-like plants that thrived 400 million years ago. In spring its shoots resemble asparagus – in Japan they are cooked and eaten in a similar way to the vegetable. By
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Bless those saints THE SARDINE SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN! WITH JUNE COME THE FESTIVITIES AROUND THE PAGAN SAINTS OF PORTUGAL THAT OPENS OUR SARDINE SEASON, CULMINATING IN THE FATTEST SARDINES BY THE END OF AUGUST. THIS MONTH I’M GOING TO
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WHAT BETTER WAY TO END A MEAL THAN WITH A TANGY, CREAMY, LEMONY TART? EVEN THOSE THAT DON’T NORMALLY ‘DO’ DESSERTS WILL LOVE THE SHARPNESS OF THIS DECONSTRUCTED CLASSIC PUDDING Courtesy of The Gower Kitchen, Uplands… here is a simple
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Great Coffee with a Social Conscience I was delighted to see that we had a new coffee shop open in Sketty earlier this year – it might look like another stylish coffee bar but there’s more to Square Peg Coffee
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