Entries by HL & LL
Accepting COVID
I have an anxious problemAnd it’s worrying you seeI can’t think past the dreaded COVIDFor the life that once suited me It’s been like a strange horror storyAnd it’s not over yetTime is getting more precious each dayThe older and wiser I get I must start thinking positivelyBut it’s hard when I look aroundWith social […]
Identifying Abuse : Stop-Challenge-Protect
Next week is VULNERABILITY Week with the rolling out of Operation Amethyst involving Zak Bird, Police Community Support Officer, Community Safety who has provided the following information. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Resolven Remembers
As the Resolven Branch of the Royal British Legion recently ceased to exist and according to the Welsh Government Covid-19 restrictions and recommendations, only a fraction of the normal number of people gathered at the Resolven Cenotaph at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. A shortened service of Remembrance took […]
‘Lest We Forget’
‘Lest We Forget’ In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. . We are the Dead, Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset […]
Remembrance ~ Previous Years in Clyne
Photographs by Mike Davies “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today” Rudyard Kipling
‘HAPPY HALLOWEEN’
From Mike Davies and RDN Team ~ ~ ~ ~
Clydach Brook Visitor
When crossing the bridge from Commercial Road to Clydach Avenue we saw this visitor to the Clydach Brook. It seems the Grey Heron is a regular visitor to Resolven. The grey heron was first described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 and gave it the name Ardea cinerea. It is closely related and […]
Resolven Community Council New Butterfly Garden Project
On a wet and windy morning last Friday members of the Community Council and volunteers arrived to begin the installation of a new garden planted specifically to attract butterflies. The Community Council had received all the materials and tools from ‘Keep Wales Tidy‘ whose representative Kathryn Brixton also attended to give advice. The area chosen was […]
Looking forward to Spring with Mike Davies
As we come into Autumn and winter you will find a lot of differentspecies of birds coming on to your feeders, never let the feeders go empty, as they will not visit again. I have a regular bird who visits in early/late spring – the woodpecker and on occasions he will bring his offspring to […]
Unusual Sightings in Resolven
A cold but sunny Sunday on the 11th October 2020 gave the residents of Resolven an afternoon of two unexpected and unusual sightings The first, at 2.45 p.m. seen clearly due to the very good visibility of the day, and against a background of vivid blue skies and the occasional fluffy white cloud was a […]
Closure of The Resolven Branch of The Royal British Legion
The Constitution of the Royal British Legion is such that if a Branch membership falls to less than seven members it has to close, unfortunately the Resolven Branch has now fallen to just six members and the Constitution further states, that there must be a Committee of seven members. Enquiries have been made to increase […]