I Loves The ‘Diff column in the South Wales Echo

Since April 2015 we’ve written a monthly column in the South Wales Echo. We cover all sorts of topical stuff, from the twp closure of the Tourist Information Centre to…the closure of the Doctor Who Experience. We’re always moaning about something! But generally it’s about celebrating our city. Here’s a collection of them, with links to online versions.

 

• Students flats, changing Cardiff, who benefits? (August 2017)

• I wheelie loves the ‘Diff (July 2017)

• Now arriving on the Canalog line… (June 2017)

• Limited edition prints will raise money for homeless (April 2017)

• Spotlight on Womanby Street (March 2017)

  Includes: The campaign to save Womanby Street, and glory in the Cardiff Life Awards.

• Goodbye Dempseys, and Tenner for Good (February 2017)

• Calling time on the Time Lord? (January 2017)

• Homelessness not just a problem at Christmas (December 2016)

  Includes: My visit to the Huggard Centre is sobering, eye opening and reassuring.

• Kidneys and faggots: Brooklyn’s Sunken Hundred (November 2016)

• Cardiff rain, Wet Office, and the sale of Roath Park lighthouse (October 2016)

• Holby: Cardiff Bay’s secret city (September 2016)

  

• Keeping Cardiff tidy is a challenge… (August 2016)

  Includes: RSPB VR experience in Bute Park; our logo on Cardiff Rivers Group tops; rubbish

  

• Euro 2016 has been the beautiful dream… (July 2016)

  Includes: Thank you Wales – “Don’t take me home”; Penarth festival poster, food bloggers.

• What’s the French for Whose Coat’s That Jacket? (June 2016)

  Includes: Road trip! We’re off to France for the Euros and we’re all very, very excited.

• A poster for St David’s – and fire safety (May 2016)

  Includes: Cardiff Bus once again asks to ‘Pick An Orange’; Cardiff city centre needs a tourist hub; check your smoke alarms.

• The night Jimi Hendrix slept on a Roath Park Lake islet (April 2016)

• Remembering Aunty Cerid’s fabulous welsh cakes (March 2016)

  Includes: Hangfire Smokehouse launch; Pettigrew Bakery opens; Crafty Devil launches a beer for Cardiff Dogs Home.

• It’s that time of year again: the Six Nations is here (February 2016)

  Includes: petition to save ‘Splott University’ building; growing Cardiff; Cardiff Without Culture march.

• The ‘everyday miracle’ of organ donation (Dec 2015)

• How best to get from A to B in Cardiff? (November 2015)

• The rise of ‘creative Cardiff’ (October 2015)

• Cardiff Castle’s Ball in the Wall and the Coal Exchange (Sept 2015)

• Our Bute-iful capital is lush: Cardiff’s green spaces  (August 2015)

• Let’s drink to how South Wales is surfing the beer wave (July 2015)

• Why Cardiff is the place to be this summer (June 2015)

• Cardiff’s exploding food scene; Lightship, Helwick LV14 (May 2015)

• Closure of Cardiff’s Tourist Information Centre (April 2015)