A friend spotted this four bedroom detached house on Newport Road in Llantarnam on Rightmove tonight. It is on the market with Roberts & Co for £1,250,000. Click on the link below to have a look at the photos. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-31420423.html Here is some of the agent’s description. Located in a secluded valley behind Llantarnam Abbey, […]
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Recycle your real Christmas tree at Greenmeadow Community Farm in Cwmbran
You can recycle your real Christmas tree at Greenmeadow Community Farm. A big pile of trees have already appeared outside the gates to the farm. The trees are chipped and used on footpaths and to help drainage in flower beds. Please make sure there are no decorations left on your tree.
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Fly tippers are still dumping their rubbish at recycling banks in Cwmbran
Fly tippers have returned to dump their rubbish at the recycling banks at Fairwater Shops in Cwmbran. This blog showed how over a few days more and more people were getting rid of their Christmas waste at sites in Cwmbran. This one was cleared up by the council last week. The pics on this blog […]
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Cwmbran Life blog- 2011 in review using statistics from WordPress
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,200 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
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Behind the scenes at the Congress Theatre in Cwmbran during rehearsals for Goldilocks and the Three Bears
There are just two days to go until the curtain is raised at the Congress Theatre for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Cwmbran Woodland Players are behind the show which runs from Wednesday 4 January to Saturday 7 January. Tickets cost £9 (£7 concessions- students, Over 60s and children). You can buy tickets direct from the […]
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A walk through Fairhill Woods in Cwmbran and a failed attempt at uploading video to WordPress for Android
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUltbXgzGM0&w=640&h=360] This was a chance to walk down memory lane and at the same time try out the ‘quick video’ option on WordPress for Android. This failed as no matter what I did the video would not upload. This post explained that you need to have a self-hosted blog with a plug-in or use VideoPress […]
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Fly-tipping in Cwmbran.Day five. The clear up.
The fly-tipping at Fairwater Shops in Cwmbran has been cleared up. Click here for yesterday’s post. These pics were taken at 11.30am. For the first time I spotted a warning sign but it is not behind or even next to the recycling banks. Maybe if this sign was in a better position it would make […]
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Fly-tipping at the recycling banks in Cwmbran. Day four.
Here are some photos from today of the fly-tipping at the recycling banks in Fairwater Shops. This blog has contained a post and photos on each of the last three days. Click here for yesterday’s post that includes photos of other recycling sites in Cwmbran. The annoying thing is some people are even dumping glass […]
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Landsape artist’s pictures of Cwmbran
Pontypool based artist Jill Hobbs has produced some artwork that features places in Cwmbran. She specialises in landscape paintings, mainly using pastels but also enjoys working in acrylics and watercolours. The captions on the photos below show the artwork and the price. Most of the pieces can be bought from Jill but a couple of them can be found […]
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Fly-tipping at recycling banks in Cwmbran. Day three
People are continuing to dump their Christmas rubbish at recycling sites in Cwmbran. For the last two days I have been posting about the problem at Fairwater Shops. Click here for the Boxing Day post and click here for yesterday’s post. Here are some pics from today at Fairwater Shops. The Cwmbran Stadium site had […]