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Inside this issue<br />
Liz Fuller<br />
The former model<br />
and TV host<br />
speaks about her<br />
life and career<br />
and about her<br />
love of coming<br />
home to <strong>Rhiwbina</strong><br />
Wellness<br />
Practical ways to<br />
bring the feel-good<br />
factor into your life<br />
- and to the lives of<br />
others<br />
History<br />
Nigel Lewis takes<br />
us back to a time<br />
when Beulah<br />
crossroads was a<br />
mere dirt road -<br />
and a scattering<br />
of fields<br />
Vindication<br />
Swim<br />
Hear from the<br />
director of a<br />
new movie<br />
that celebrates<br />
the life and<br />
achievements of<br />
Mercedes Gleitze<br />
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Published early May 2024<br />
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Welcome / Croeso<br />
Welcome to your<br />
latest issue of<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong> <strong>Living</strong>.<br />
As this is our first<br />
issue of the year, we<br />
should technically<br />
wish you a Happy<br />
New Year but with<br />
Spring already<br />
unfurling before us,<br />
it's probably best<br />
for us to focus on<br />
the warmer months<br />
ahead of us.<br />
This issue is jampacked<br />
with goodies<br />
for you, starting with<br />
a coffee and a catch-up with<br />
former Miss GB, Liz Fuller. After<br />
spending much of her career<br />
travelling the world, Liz now<br />
divides her time between LA<br />
and Cardiff. A former model and<br />
TV host, she is now a Hollywood<br />
talent agent. She speaks about<br />
her love of coming back home to<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong>.<br />
Vindication Swim is a new<br />
movie with links to the local area<br />
and we were fortunate enough to<br />
speak to the film's director Elliott<br />
Hasler about the inspirational<br />
new motion picture. He speaks<br />
candidly about the challenges<br />
of shooting the movie, plus his<br />
admiration of the film's true-life<br />
central character, Mercedes<br />
Gleitze.<br />
And while we're on the topic<br />
of the big screen, we hear from<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong>'s Sarah-Jane Perez.<br />
Sarah-Jane, a BAFTA-nominated<br />
costume designer, provides us<br />
with a behind-the-scenes look at<br />
what it's like to dress for TV and<br />
film.<br />
Back to Cardiff and Nigel Lewis<br />
returns with another delightful<br />
historical feature, this time taking<br />
a look at Beulah Corner before it<br />
became the village that we know<br />
and love today.<br />
Our city of Cardiff celebrates<br />
its 60th anniversary of its pairing<br />
with Nantes this year and to<br />
commemorate that, we have<br />
two wonderful features about<br />
the long-forged connection.<br />
Our first is from former historian<br />
Maggie Swales and our second<br />
is from David Judd, who began<br />
a lifelong love with France when<br />
he was part of a student swap as<br />
a youngster. Maggie outlines this<br />
historical connection between<br />
our two cities while David<br />
provides his personal memories<br />
of his experiences.<br />
We've teamed up with local<br />
favourites Budd Electrical, to give<br />
you a chance to win a cordless<br />
vacuum cleaner worth £149. And<br />
while we deal with all things<br />
at home, the new recycling<br />
collections have been causing a<br />
bit of a stir these last few months,<br />
so we've put together everything<br />
you need to know about the new<br />
service.<br />
This time of year is the perfect<br />
time to get away from it all and<br />
we've hand-picked 10 places<br />
that you can visit in Spring.<br />
Meanwhile, our local poets have<br />
been busy at work over the<br />
winter months and you can read<br />
their regular contributions on our<br />
Poetry page.<br />
We've also got some great<br />
tips on how to feel better<br />
about life and we also take an<br />
in-depth look at how to beat<br />
procrastination, something that<br />
can hold us back in life. And<br />
if you need a good dollop of<br />
inspiration, read the story about<br />
Anna-Louise Stubbings, who is<br />
transforming organ donation in<br />
Wales.<br />
To sign off, we've got some<br />
wonderfully fresh recipes for this<br />
season ahead and we finish with<br />
a family-based short story.<br />
Make the most of the spring<br />
sunshine and we'll see you in our<br />
next issue!<br />
Danielle and Patric<br />
Editors<br />
@<strong>Rhiwbina</strong><strong>Living</strong><br />
www.facebook.com/rhiwbinaliving<br />
@livingmagazinescardiff
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