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Dai's walk around Wales blog - August 2025 |
1 August 2025 - Terrier Patrol outside Verdi's in the Mumbles
Phil Norling, Dai Richards, Barrie Smith, Nigel Orrells
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CWMGWRACH PARTY IN THE PARK - 2 August 2025 A pre-event video with organisers Meg & Neave. |
2 August 2025
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Gethin and Korra's carrots are coming along slowly but surely, Korra's best effort is pictured to the left. |
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11-15 August 2025 - Oliver stay over
I spent the best part of the week being entertained by my grandson Oliver
16 August 2025
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Pictured left, in Gorseinon with my sisters at my niece Andrea's 50th birthday party. The sunset was OK but my iphone is too old to capture the colours or I lack the skills to deliver them, probably the latter. Hayley on the other hand is a dab hand at capturing nice sunsets, see below.
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Timmy the toad in the garden
19 August 2025
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Exercise Cambrian Patrol is an annual international military exercise, organised by the British Army. Dai Richards & Philip Grabarski completed the 1989 patrol as part of the 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales. Phil was called in to do the event with 2-3 hours notice. |
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RED ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY IN FLIGHT NEAR THE ABERPERGWM
COLLIERY, GLYNNEATH
Butterflies are beautiful and fascinating creatures but identifying them in the field is not the easiest task in the world. I managed to get enough footage of this butterfly to be able to identify it as a Red Admiral near the Aberpergwm Colliery in Glynneath. I've slowed the footage down as much as possible. Unfortunately the frames per second on the footage don't give the range of motion particularly well because the butterfly was just too fast for my go-pro................... |
24 August 2025
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Glynneath Mixed Ability Rugby - at Glynneath RFC. A 3 team tournament between the newly formed Glynneath Bumble Bees, Edinburgh Academicals & Swansea Gladiators. This video is an interview with the Gladiators second row forward, Jeff Jones who explains what Mixed Ability Rugby is all about................. |
27 August 2025
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My cousin Lynnette, over from Australia organised a cousins get together at the Castle Hotel in Neath. We are pictured together with our partners. |
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