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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, at midday at St John's Church Parish Hall I'll be hosting my usual Councillor Surgery. No appointment required!

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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the graphic-novel surge in bookshops that has been developing over the past decade and in particular since the pandemic. In 2025, adult and kids' comics categories through NielsenIQ BookScan's Total Consumer Market combined to deliver £77.2m for UK booksellers, by far a record year. This will be absolutely obliterated by 2026's end as sales are up a massive 25% for the sector year on year; with a little following wind - heck, maybe just a light breeze - graphic novels could eclipse £100m in a calendar year for the first time in

The report goes on to say that "comics, manga and graphic novels are no longer a niche interest within public libraries. They are increasingly considered a core part of a modern library collection, helping libraries reach audiences who may not be drawn to more traditional

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A recent weekend away in Southampton, Winchester and then London. With Tim, Gina and Jon in each location respectively.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As former Uni admin who regularly handled PhD submissions I have some thoughts on this, firstly Turnitin handled the PhD Thesis poorly. This isn't unique to them, very few tools are built to account for the PhD workflow, but always a pain to split the Thesis in enough pieces so it could be uploaded

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 08/08/2026

The UK will experience a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday 12 August. The extent of the Sun's coverage and the timing of maximum obscuration will differ across the country. Never look directly at the sun; use a pinhole projector or certified eclipse glasses to view it.

Map on UK showing how much of the sun will be obscured by the moon, at maximum, during the solar eclipse on Wednesday 12th of August. this ranges from 88% in the east to 98% in the southwest.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Great to see As You Like It last night by Illyria Theatre at Insole Court. It has been an absolute age since I last saw a production (and many more since I had the smallest role in one). All the cast were electric but special mention to Julian Brett, whose joyous performance stole the show!

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Attending the Lord Mayor's Garden Party in the Castle a few Sunday's ago and hearing about the great work City Hospice is doing from their Chief Executive, Dr Liz Booyse, was an absolute pleasure. Over £5,000 was raised, clearly a result of everyone pitching in and I can't wait for the next event!

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Tomorrow, Saturday the 25th, at midday at St John's Church Parish Hall I'll be hosting my usual Councillor Surgery. No appointment required!

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

On Thursday I presented a petition on behalf of a resident who is concerned about the antisocial behaviour on the Taff trail. I am expecting the Cabinet Members response to the petition in due course.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I was at Mark's Thank You fundraiser last night, a good evening with good company. Many people in attendance had been positively affected by Mark over the years and, as Mark made clear, he intends for this not to be the end of his political involvement but another step on the continuing road.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A very Llandaf Festival morning with the inimitable historian and archivist Morgan Haigh before a tour of the tower with the knowledgeable bell ringers. The outstanding view of Cardiff was just the final cherry on top of two wonderful (and educational) tours.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Lisa Nandy is right, X 'favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate.' At the last Full Council meeting I continued to put pressure on the Council, I do not believe we should remain on it.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Great to be at Llandaff Cathedral tonight for Have I Got Pews for You hosted by Vix Leyton. Good set of comedians so far and we're only just at the break, what a fun way to kick off Llandaff Festival.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Our infrastructure is not prepared for the climate emergency. The Climate Change Committee's report 'A Well-Adapted UK' makes that clear and at Thursday I wanted to know what we are doing to get ready, because the next heatwave will certainly not wait for us. www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Set up and ready for my regular monthly surgery at midday on the last Saturday of each month (excluding December). Today I'm in Llandaff at the Parish Hall, all ward residents welcome!

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tonight I asked about Council guidance to Cardiff schools during the red weather warnings. Asked at the hottest Council Chamber I've ever been in, never a more appropriate time and place to ask about the climate emergency.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On Tuesday evening I went to a phenomenal (and not just because St Dogmaels was mentioned) talk, The History of Mermaids, Sea Spirits and Women at @gleeclubcardiff.bsky.social by Professor Diane Purkiss.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Last Tuesday we had GLL, who run a lot of the Cardiff Leisure Centres, in front of us. The work of scrutiny often isn't snappy soundbites but detailed work over a long period to establish that the best possible deal is being done for our residents.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Twice in one week, and it's a lovely sunny day again? Yes, I'm back at Insole Court this evening for our regular Llandaff Labour Branch meeting.

A building at Insole Court. It's a lovely sunny day.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Yesterday I went to the lovely local Insole Court for the first ever Cardiff Coffee Festival. I couldn't think of a better reason (as if I needed one) to try some delicious coffee and enjoy the sun while also supporting a core pillar of the Llandaff ward.

Sign reading Cardiff Coffee Festival on a a road leading into Insole Court.

A table with Cardiff Coffee Festival in the foreground with a coffee and muffin above it and green grass with chairs in the background.

Several cups of coffee on a table with their descriptions beside them.

Insole Court in the sun, several tents with lots of people around having a good time.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Great to be joined by Senedd Member Huw Thomas at a Strawberries and Cream Tea Fundraiser for Christian Aid at St John's Church Hall. Over 600 pounds raised by the local community for a good cause.

St John's Church Hall in full sunlight with two big trees behind it.

Huw Thomas MS speaking with a hall full of people.

A scone with jam and cream on it with a flower arrangement in the background.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A recurring bright point in my calendar is @rwcmd.bsky.social New writing series. It's always top-notch acting combined with intriguing and deeply emotive writing. This time around I saw all the shows and Feral Threads was my absolute favourite. What a wonderful gem in Cardiff's yearly calendar.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

On Saturday I both held my regular Councillor Surgery and, beforehand, I did a walkaround with fellow Labour member David, knocking on doors and picking up issues directly from residents. Blocked drains reported, potholes flagged to be filled, sloped pathways raised. A very productive two sessions.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Earlier this year I raised an issue at full Council that residents regularly talk to me about, potholes! The then Cabinet Member Norma Mackie spoke clearly about the work done so far and the plans for the future. I'm keen to see this new machine in action soon.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@morecivilized.bsky.social Found the OG Falcon is a robot (one that Lando does not have a relationship with)

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Tomorrow, the 30th, midday at St John's Church Parish Hall I'll be hosting my usual Councillor Surgery. No appointment required!

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On Tuesday the Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee received an update on the Recommendations from our Filming Inquiry. It's promising that changes have been made but this progress needs keep going, so Cardiff is not only visually present in films & shows but fundamentally benefits from it.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It was my pleasure to arrange a visit to the Bishop's Palace with the Llandaff Conservation Group, of which I am the Chair. The hard work and investment by Cardiff Council is clearly vital to preserve this important historical monument for future generations.

Someone pointing to masonry work done on stone walls.

A view into the Bishop's Palace from above.

A view into Llandaff Village from above.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Good to attend the new Lord Mayor Michael Michael's first event in the Mansion House tonight and hear about Cardiff's City Hospice, the charity he will be supporting in the coming year.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

On a bit of a Murderbot and Star Wars kick at the moment so reading Razor's Edge (set between ANH and ESB) by Martha Wells and what comes up. The @morecivilized.bsky.social referenced grappling hook comes up but considered by Han.

Text on a page, it reads: The grappling hook in his satchel wasn't going to do him any good, since he couldn't throw it in low g.

He could hook it onto something and play out the fibercord to give himself a safety line, though. But he had to have something to push off from as he moved around the chamber; without a source of propulsion he could get stuck down here, floating around with no way to reach the walls of the cavern, until the pi-

Text on a page, it reads: rates found him or he starved to death. He still had a comlink in his pocket, but it was the one locked into the secure frequency for the Gamble. He could change the settings and try to get hold of the Aegis if he did get stuck. But he preferred not to get stuck

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On Thursday I attended Full Council remotely and asked the Cabinet Member about justifying staying on X and praised the community action we've seen in Minnesota in the last month.

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Cardiff Left Bookclub @cardiffleftbookclub.org · 15/01/2026

We're going to Miami for the next bookclub and by that we do mean Tiny Rebel. Join us upstairs on Tuesday at 7pm, February 10th to talk about about Joan Didion's Miami and the inescapable clawing beast of historical context reverberating to the present day. Should be cheery.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It's time for my yearly roundup, first books read. This year has been phenomenal for my reading, at 66 books done I've read more books than any year since I started keeping proper track, far exceeding the 43 in 2018. A long morning commute helps of course. 1/3

A list of books in chronological order read, those highlighted in blue were particularly good ones marked with asterisks below.

The Safekeep*
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing
Are Prisons Obsolete?
The Big Sleep
Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons
We Do Not Part*
London Characters and Crooks*
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions
How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road*
All My Cats
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection*
Love in Exile*
Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?
Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear*
The Message
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet*
A Woman's Battles and Transformations
Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch
Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Change
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore*
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Universality
A Little Daylight Left*
Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess
No Matter The Wreckage
Brittle With Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97*
Feminism is for Everybody
Thirteen Days: A memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Government of Wales
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
Imperfect Solidarities
A Gil Blas in California
The Green Hollow
Jurassic Park*
Dead Animals
Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red and Artificial Condition
Cherry Bones: Issue One
The Aztecs
Greek Lessons
The City and the Stars
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Badvertising: Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Crisis
Seascraper*
Star Trek: Prime Directive*
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness*
The Last Day
Murder by Memory
Spring Garden
Who's Afraid of Gender
You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece*
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens

A list of books in chronological order read, second image covers 55 to 66, those highlighted in blue were particularly good ones marked with asterisks below.

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life*
The Lost World
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Rose/House
Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories
Since the World is Ending
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-V 1977-2005
The Incas
Making It So*
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms*
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery

There is also an image of all of the books stacked up and the books that are particularly good laid out on shelves, the first image on the left and the second on the right.

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Cardiff Left Bookclub @cardiffleftbookclub.org · 16/12/2025

The first book of the year will be The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed, we will be upstairs in Tiny Rebel at 7pm on the 13th of January 2026.

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Cardiff Left Bookclub @cardiffleftbookclub.org · 06/12/2025

This Tuesday. Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth at 7pm. We're in the little O'Neill's on Trinity Street.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Brief weekend away in Tenby, nice to get out that way and have a good, relaxing, time.

Ocean in the background, beach a little closer and a pathway in the foreground with a street sign reading 'The Paragon'.

Bright coloured buildings against a blue sky, beach and boats in foreground, ocean behind.

Peter Huw Jenkins in foreground, rock and beach in midground, ocean in background.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The proposed Heritage list went to Scrutiny today. This acknowledgement recognises the historical value of the building of the Radyr Court, giving the Council additional powers to protect the structures of the buildings themselves through the planning process. I very much support this proposal.

Pictures of the Radyr Court at different times of year and day.

Text on a white background, text can be found on page 3 here: https://cardiff.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s89954/Item%204%20-%20Appendix%203.pdf

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Did some more litter picking in Danescourt this weekend with some dedicated local Labour members. We also did some doorknocking afterwards but entirely forgot to take a photo!

Councillor Peter Huw Jenkins with three dedicated litter pickers in Danescourt.

A bin with two bags below it containing litter picked items.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Honoured to be at the Llandaff Armistice Day Service today laying a wreath with my fellow Councillor, Sean Driscoll.

Councillor Peter Huw Jenkins and Councillor Sean Driscoll laying a wreath at the Llandaff war memorial.

Councillor Peter Huw Jenkins, Lord Mayor Adrian Robson and Councillor Sean Driscoll in front of the war memorial in Llandaff.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Great to do a bit of litter picking around Danescourt this afternoon and then get into door knocking with some of our future Welsh Labour Senedd candidates for Caerdydd Penarth. Definitely the case that on a cool, crisp, October day we needed layers but the reception on the door was lovely and warm

Councillor Peter Huw Jenkins flanked by two people, the one on the right is holding a dragon themed litter picker and in the background is the co-op in Danescourt.

Councillor Peter Huw Jenkins wearing a high vis jacket and holding a litterpicker with another person also holding equipment next to a bin where bright red sacks full of collected waste have been placed.

A group of Labour Members and Welsh Labour Senedd Candidates, with Councillor Peter Huw Jenkins in the near centre holding a card listing his contact details alongside the contact information for the local MP and MS. It's a bright day.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This Saturday I was at the Llandaff Parish Hall, at my Council Surgery anyone can visit and ask questions, I had a very nice chat about local government procedure and will now be doing some digging. My next Councillor Surgery is on the 25th of October at 12:00 in St John's Church Hall in Danescourt

Llandaff Parish Hall with a door open. It's a mild day.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I spent my weekend in West Wales with Friday evening and Saturday morning in Fishguard There's something particularly joyful in both going to an independent bookshop (Seaways) and discovering something you couldn't get elsewhere, a really neat zine. The Tapestry in the library is also a must visit

Mural commemorating the French Invasion at Fishguard in 1797. It has clearly been raining.

Outside of Seaways independent bookshop, the house is a light blue and a rainbow bench is in the front. It really has and continues to rain.

Fishguard bay, ships are on the mud flats, it continues to be raining.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Great to be invited around the new Fairwater campus, just next door to my ward. Parts of it are already operational, so we got to see kids enjoying these modern facilities. Core investment into communities instead of austerity driven cuts and having to paper over the cracks is hearting and needed.

Picture of the outside of the new Fairwater Community Campus.

A classroom with tables, chairs and both a digital screen and two whiteboards.

A large sports space with a variety of different sports lines marked on the floor. A basketball hoop can be seen in the background.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

As part of the Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee, Councillors, including myself, have already done a decent amount of work on how this will affect Cardiff. In my opinion it's a very positive move that could easily make Cardiff a nicer place to live and visit www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/Your-Cou...

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Cardiff Left Bookclub @cardiffleftbookclub.org · 10/09/2025

Our next session on the 14th of October at 19:00 is Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary ' upstairs in Tiny Rebel.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I've visited residents who have a problem with an old overgrown oak tree (second oldest in Cardiff) overhanging their houses. The tree is protected by a TPO but these don't require the landowner to maintain, or pay for any work needed, so my residents have to pay or risk waking up to a tree branch.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Out and around Llandaff village on a lovely (too lovely) day. Neither snow or rain or heat or gloom of night will stop us knocking doors. But I've got to be honest, bit of snow wouldn't go amiss today.

Two people holding Labour leaflets on a bright sunny day.

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Peter Huw Jenkins @phjenkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Out today in Radyr & Morganstown knocking doors, talking to residents. We'll leave no part of Caerdydd Penarth uncontacted.

Two people in front of the Radyr & Morganstown sign.

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