This a flashback from my early childhood. I had it on 7 inch vinyl. It was a big hit back in the err…. day. I didn’t have MTV, not many did – a satellite dish was well pricey – you
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Taylor Swift: a Liverpool FC and Swiftie fan’s Dream Come True: Anfield 13.06.2024: #ynwa I GOT TICKETS #ErasTour
I am a Swiftie and Love Taylor but there are some things that I just don’t just love but I actually live for. Liverpool Football Club is my life. Nothing matters bar Liverpool really. I mean people speculate that football
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Review: Queens of the Crusades – by Alison Weir
I had previously read Alison Weir’s most excellent book specifically on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine many years ago so the author was familiar to me. I chanced upon this title in my local library (Caldicot) and thought I’d give it
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Defending Against Cyber Attacks
I have had a long academic relationship with Cardiff University which is the best ‘local’ university here in Wales. For over 15 years I’ve been honing my foreign language skills at this centre for academic excellence with https://dragontranslate.co.uk being a
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Review: Chav Punk Hobbit – The Quest to The End Of The World – by Jason Phillips
Jason is a Welsh Musician, and in this short book, he details his most recent Camino de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage experience. He takes the Camino Portugués from Porto, a follow up to his previous encounter with the more traditional,
Continue readingITI Cymru Wales Christmas Dinner
ITI Cymru Wales hosted a Christmas event at Zizzi Italian restaurant in Cardiff – as you can see from the photo a good time was had by all!
Continue readingStudent Rep Meeting with Head of MLANG, Cardiff University, 10.12.14
On 10th December I attended a meeting with Head of MLANG School, Professor Claire Gorrara. She was giving a presentation about developments in the school and there followed a Q&A session. As student rep for first year Translation I felt
Continue readingTaking Stock of Subtitling – Jorge Díaz-Cintas (UCL) – Guest Lecture Cardiff University MLANG 18.11.14
Sponsored by Tesserae, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, this event at Cardiff University brought in world expert in subtitling, Jorge Díaz-Cintas, from UCL, for a guest lecture on ‘Taking Stock In Subtitling’. Subtitling is a growing area of
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ITI Cymru Wales Christmas Dinner
ITI Cymru Wales hosted a Christmas event at Zizzi Italian restaurant in Cardiff – as you can see from the photo a good time was had by all!
Continue readingShuffle Show – XPress Radio – WEEK 4 – 23.11.14
The Shuffle Show with Wez G – WEEK 4 – 23.11.14 – XPress Radio This week’s Shuffle Show on Xpress Radio hosts Funkydory’s Gari Worner. Gari has worked as a DJ in the Welsh capital for many years and
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ITI Cymru Wales Event Cardiff University 08.11.14
I received an invite on my university email address to a free event at Cardiff University, arranged by ITI Cymru Wales ( @ITICymruWales ). The Saturday workshop was to be focussed on technology in translation and I felt it would be an ideal opportunity
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ITI Cymru Wales Event Cardiff University 08.11.14
I received an invite on my university email address to a free event at Cardiff University, arranged by ITI Cymru Wales ( @ITICymruWales ). The Saturday workshop was to be focussed on technology in translation and I felt it would be an ideal opportunity
Continue readingShuffle Show – Xpress Radio – WEEK 1 – 02.11.14
The Shuffle Show with Wez G – WEEK 1 – 02.11.14 – XPress Radio The inaugural Shuffle Show on Xpress Radio has some nice cuts of house served up by Wez G plus an interview with Time Flies promoter,
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The Shuffle Show is a specialist Dance Music show on Xpress Radio, airing 12am – 1am Sundays (late Saturday night). XPress Radio is the award-winning Cardiff University radio station. I have recently gone back to my studies as a full-time
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Blast From The Past: The Sandwich Show featuring Wez G
Here is a rare bit of video footage of DJ Wez G in action (back in 2010)… Filmed for the legendary (now defunct) Cardiff radio programme, The Sandwich Show, DJ Wez G lays down some grooves in the company of
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Surfing The Waves Of Creativity
Teahupo’o (Tahiti)… pronounced ‘cho-pu’, .. I’ve been asked by my good friend, Johan Flapsandwich, to do a guest blog on his website. Flaps and I met 20 odd years ago and have grown up together as DJs and more recently,
Continue readingMatch Preview: Manchester City vs Liverpool (26.12.13)
It’s time for one of the traditional football delights – the Boxing Day match… Full of Christmas turkey, it’s the time of year to gather around and watch the game – the halfway point of the season – it’s a
Continue readingMatch Report: Liverpool vs Cardiff City (21.12.13) W 3-1
The game began with Liverpool retaining their lineup from the previous weekend. For Cardiff, Craig Bellamy didn’t make the starting eleven. Early on the game seem fairly balanced. Luis Suarez got on the ball in the penalty area twice, the
Continue readingMatch Preview: Hull City vs Liverpool (01.12.13)
Liverpool travel to the KC Stadium for an away fixture that at first glance looks a nice comfortable three-pointer after the challenges posed to us at Goodison in the derby last weekend. In sixteen
Continue readingNo Ordinary Joe by Joe Calzaghe
I was fortunate enough to get to watch Calzaghe fight live, against Mikkel Kessler, in Cardiff Millenium Stadium. I followed him throughout his career and can honestly say he was the most amazing fighter. I believe that his record places
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Rock & Fountain, Penhow Set Sail with Shuffle boat parties Miss Moneypennys London: Ministry of Sound, Velvet Underground, The Cross, London Zoo, Turnmills, Plastic People, the Gardening Club, Bar Lorca-Stoke Newington (drum n’bass), The Sound Republic, Legends, The Clinic, Thirteen,
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Park It In The Club With No Name
Well, Dion, Here is your nineties house. Classics are hard to define. bearing in mind my age means that I missed the really early stuff, I tried to include on this mix lots of stuff from when the Haçienda was
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Live @ Mi Casa, Journeys, Cardiff 11.06.04
I said I’d pepper the podshow with the occasional mix from the vaults. This is a rare occasion when I dug out the minidisc player and managed to record a Wez G live set. The venue is Journeys, Cardiff, the
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