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Aberdare Blog started as an experiment in communicating views of Aberdare and views from Aberdare. It remains an experiment in communication open to participation. Jane from Mountain Ash blogged the lead story on the Mountain Ash Opencast plans this week. Why not blog your own story from Aberdare today ? Here is a list of the Top 100 tags used to describe posts on Aberdare Blog… if we haven’t blogged on a subject close to your heart, you can fix that yourself. If you prefer to blog a story with photos or video, that’ll do nicely thank you, send them today. abercynon aberdare Aberdare Town aberdare_park Ann Clwyd Baptists bbc bbc_wales Books Caerphilly capitalism cardiff Ceredigion Chapels charity christine_chapman christmas christmas_2005 Church coal comedy...

Better late than never… this Christmas we discovered the television comedy Gavin and Stacey, thanks to a gift from a kind uncle. The comedy was written by Ruth Jones and James Corden. It was a thrilling discovery. We had to pause the DVD several times to try and recover from fits of hysterical laughter. Gavin and Stacey is a lovely romantic comedy romp, with a strong Welsh flavour. There were one or two scenes that really tickled the heart-strings in a big way. We fought (and failed) to hold back the tears watching the scene with Rob Brydon on the way to the Church with his niece. Rob Brydon was absolutely excellent. He recently appeared in a one-man show in the Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. How we now wish we had gone to see him! The humour in Gavin Stacey is reminiscent of...

If only the playwright Frank Vickery was available on the NHS ! Imagine how many ailments could be cured through comedy therapy. But don’t wait until your local GP can prescribe Frank Vickery for you… visit your local Coliseum Theatre this week where A Night on the Tiles, Frank Vickery’s latest pacey comedy, is running until Saturday....

Madonna makes a rare visit to Aberdare for a concert at Rock Grounds… Ann Clwyd, comedy, cynon valley, humour, labour party, parody, photos, socialism © 2005-2006 - Visit Aberdare Blog for more great content....

A typing error by a journalist at the Bombay Leader newspaper has sparked mass rioting at the Indian city’s travel agents with fights breaking out over air flights to visit Aberdare this weekend. A news story was printed claiming that “Ann Clwyd MP will be unveiling her bust at Rock Grounds Aberdare“. The Bombay journalist tried to translate the news story that Ann Clwyd MP will be unveiling a granite bust of Keir Hardie the very first Labour MP at Rock Grounds Aberdare on Saturday 2nd December 2006. aberdare, Ann Clwyd, bombay, bust, comedy, hardie, humour, keir hardie, labour, labour party © 2005-2006 - Visit Aberdare Blog for more great content....

Leighton Andrews Assembly Member for Rhondda, you are hereby charged … … with driving your website at very high speeds but with no Search Facility. So your constituents can’t read what you’ve said in the past. This is a dangerous way to drive a website Mr Andrews. Being able to Search your website is very important, as you know. As this is your first Internet Offence, you will receive a caution Mr Andrews. Good day and safe surfing. assembly member, comedy, humour, leighton andrews, south wales, valleys, wales, welsh, Welsh Assembly, welsh assembly government © 2005-2006 - Visit Aberdare Blog for more great content....

I'm back from Liverpool on what must have been one of the best weekends this year. Saturday Night was brilliant, and it began at around 5:30, watching the football results come in and around the country. We origianally planned to head to Weatherspoons for a spot of tea before the comedy, however we decided against it to have a Dominos. We forsaked it the night before instead going for the better value of Papa Johns. However, we realised the errors of our ways with the stodgy horrible pizza we got. Dominos is the king, and we tucked into the into the Tex-Mex and Pepperoni Passion pizzas, we were happy chappies. After the Dominos, we headed out to the main event of the weekend - Comedy Night with Jim Jefferies. We saw Jim earlier this year and promised ourselves we'd go and see him should...

As I really cannot be arsed posting today, here's a collection of links that I've found over the past few days. Firstly is Andrew Lawrence. Veteran readers may be aware that for around 4-5 months this year Thursday nights were spent at comedy clubs up and down Liverpool. One of the first acts I saw was this comedian called Andrew Lawrence, who came out of nowhere, and was one of the funniest things I ever saw. Anyway, turns out he has a myspace on the new myspace comedy site, and he has posted two videos of him performing. I urge you to check it out, especially if you like my sort of humour. The link is here. Check out video 2, which was almost the exact same set as I watched. Cheers to Guy for digging that one up for me. Secondly, from Fark.com is this. How cool is that? I used to love...

Last night was Tom's 21st, so we went to the Comedy Club to celebrate. I have missed going there, just feel so cultured going, and we don't have anything like that around North Wales. Well we do, but it's like Joe Pasquale in Rhyl for £20. No thanks. Shame really, as I'm sure a comedy club in somewhere like Speakers Corner in Colwyn Bay would be good. Anyway, I digress. There were two really funny comedians and two bombs, so 50% hit rate is not to be sniffed at, especially as the two that were funny were laugh out loud funny. Following the show, we went to a place caleld Heeby Jeebies. I've never ever been there before, and kind of got separated from the group on the way (largely due to me wanting a burger, so I got a burger). I was lost, and I couldn't find anybody. All I knew was...