Gong Xi Fa Cai,Getting out the Vote and Brecon Bells
Today is the start of the Chinese Year of the Pig and Aberystwyth that most cosmopolitan of Welsh towns is festooned with Chinese lanterns. Not that we have traffic jams though. In China jams will have been the order of the day as people in the cities go back to their villages and in Malaysia it will have been similar. I recall being in Malaysia once for Chinese New Year and Kuala Lumpur was a ghost town, which is rare indeed.
The New Year in China coincides with some of the most unseasonably hot weather they have had for ages; an ever present reminder of the challenge of climate change. The combination of new green technology and sensible policies and personal and community inititiative should help us rise to this challenge. I see one sensible idea being floated today in the Observer is dimmer type switches on street lights for quieter periods.
In Haverfordwest with our candidate, Paul Davies ,who is doing a great job and Brecon this weekend I was pleased to get the message that Welsh Conservatives will be voting this time in the Assembly elections.I think that this reflects both the passage of time since the referendum and a total fed up to the back teethness with Labour in all its shapes and forms.
A visit to the Brecon Museum is always worthwhile and on Saturday I went to see two very different exhibitions –on Hill farming and on Brecon and bellringing– well worth seeing both of them.
Last night I hosted drinks for the Ceredigion Association. We have an excellent candidate in Trefor Jones and it is good to see the association in good shape. Not sure how heads will be this morning but the bottle bank is that much the richer and a walk in the Cambrian mountains is a great tonic.
