May 2025 round up

Every month I'm saying it's been a busy month... guess what! It's been a busy month!

It included a trip to Europhilex, a big stamp show at the NEC. I went on from there to Shrewsbury for the weekend. It was nice to spend time with my mum and the rest of the family on a 'normal weekend'. On the Sunday morning I went to watch Zac play in his final game of the season. He scored the opening goal in a 9-1 win and created several other goals for his team-mates!

I've been travelling quite a bit for work, including two trips to London. I had a brief interlude as a tourist and walked from the London office to Tower Bridge and then along the river. I blogged some photos from my London wandrin!

Another work trip was to Exeter to visit some laboratories where incredible work is being done to try and find a cure for type 1 diabetes. We took some young people involved in our programme and we all got to wear lab coats and have a go at science stuff. 

With my colleague Sophie

My football schedule was also hectic, with three cup finals, a promotion play-off, and seeing Cardiff Draconians clinch their league title. (Read about the Dracs in the first instalment of my review of the season.)

At the Welsh Cup final, Paul and I got a chance to pose with the cup itself - I think this may be the oldest original cup still presented because the FA Cup has been replaced a couple of times.

The cup final was a good game, with Connahs Quay Nomads pushing TNS all the way. However TNS won to make it a domestic treble in Wales. 

My second cup final of the month was an under-17s game, with Shrewsbury's side playing Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium. As it was within walking distance, I had to go - and the Salop juniors won 2-0! 

The third cup final was the Ardal Southern Cup final, played between Cardiff Corinthians and Chepstow Town on Taff's Well's famous sloping pitch. It finished 5-2 to the Corries but, true to form, all seven goals were scored up the slope!

A week later I saw Chepstow play again, this time in the Ardal South promotion play off against Ynyshir Albions. It was a bad end to the season for Chepstow as they lost 2-0 and missed out on promotion. It was a bad week for them!

Those matches took me up to 59 games for the season - and it's not over just yet! Almost, but not quite.