This recipe is very easy as you make it in one roasting dish. Ideal for a family weeknight or a Valentine’s dinner, and at only 400 calories per serving, so it’s great if you’re watching your weight. If the calories don’t worry you too much, just add some more spuds and a bit more chorizo. […]
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Nana’s Kitchen : Shortbread Valentines
Being that February is the month of love, I thought this delicious shortbread would be ideal to make for your loved ones, young and old. Of course, you can adapt the biscuits to whatever shape takes your fancy – if you cut out the centres with a smaller round cutter you will end up with […]
Contemporary art auction to raise funds to inspire communities
Crickhowell based charity Arts Alive Wales will be hosting an art auction on Friday 15 March at The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny to raise money for their community arts programme. The biennial event is a cornerstone of the fundraising strategy for this thriving charity and show-cases the talents of leading contemporary artists, as well as […]
Murmurs of the Heart
And so we reach February. The month in which we celebrate St. Valentine, break our New Year Resolutions, embark on an internet trip to Moonpig.com, and seek romance to fill our beating heart. Heart disease in dogs, cats and horses is a fascinating subject. We do not see the acquired heart disease that so many […]
Abergavenny officers get a few helping hands for the day…
In January, Abergavenny officers had a helping hand to tackle crime in the town centre in the shape of two pupils from Ysgol Gymraeg Y Fenni. Holly Thomas aged 10 and Mari Jones aged 5 had won the chance to become Deputy Gwent Police Officers for the afternoon by designing winning crime prevention posters for […]
Ice Ice Baby
It’s not everyday that you find yourself in a freezer the size of a small London flat, staring into enormous steel troughs where enormous sized ice cubes are made! It sounds like a bizarre scenario doesn’t it, but for husband and wife team Laura and Gareth Giles, this is a typical day in the life […]
February 2013 Issue
Dear Readers, The strange part about my job is that I work a month ahead of myself. In January, I work on February’s magazine and so on. This means that most of the time I’m confused about what month we’re actually in. As I write this to you and look out of the office at […]