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Sunday, September 01, 2024

Monthly round up - August 2024

August was another busy month. (They are all busy months!) Although most of the world was on holiday, I was working throughout. However my work included an afternoon in an 'Escape Room' - the first time I'd ever been to one. The good news is I escaped, along with my team of young people who are part of the programme I work on. 

I've blogged some of the really big highlights of the month already - like seeing Billy Joel at the Principality Stadium, and a trip to Huddersfield to watch a football match. And I've also blogged about cinema trips to see two wildly different films: Harold and the Purple Crayon and Alien: Romulus. But there have been plenty of things I haven't blogged about yet. On one of the cinema trips I met Beetlejuice!


I was very pleased to make it to the Keep Grangetown Tidy litter pick this month. It was on a sunny Saturday morning. I collected a couple of bags of trash, but nothing particularly interesting. The following morning the Cardiff Rivers Group were holding another litter pick - this time at Grangemoor Park near our house. So I went to that too. I set a new record for a plastic water bottle retrieved from a hedge - an 18.5 litre job that looked like it had come off a water cooler!

Cathy and I did something slightly out of the usual in the middle of the month. We were witnesses at a wedding. Neither of us had been wedding witnesses before. It was for a couple who wanted to surprise all their friends and family and put an appeal out on Reddit for witnesses. As the registry office is now very conveniently close to our house I offered our services and they picked us to be there. It took about 45 minutes in total (including travel to the registry office and back) and it was really lovely to be able to help them get hitched. 


Besides meeting strangers from the internet, we have been fortunate to meet up with quite a few friends and family during the month. We met Steve and Mary in Chepstow one weekend.


And Connor was in town so I was able to hang out with him down the Bay one evening. 


And we met our friends the Woottens in Thompson Park. Here's Anna as Queen of the Stump!


Football-wise, I went to 9 matches. There were two new grounds, the aforementioned Huddersfield and a more local team, Undy Athletic. I went with Steve to Undy to watch them play Caldicot Town. Our friend Ben was playing for Caldicot and we got a selfie with him after the game. He's grinning because they won 3-1. 


Here's my running total on Futbology for the season so far. The very first game of the season, Barry's 9-0 drubbing in a friendly, is still the highest scoreline of the season. It's likely to stay that way!

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