C A R D I F F: I T S L I F E A N D T I M E S The need for speed
DAYS OUT
A NEED FOR SPEED The Speedway Grand Prix is marking 18 years of racing in Cardiff this year. In honour of the occasion, on 21 July there will be a day full of high speed fun at the Principality Stadium as The Adrian Flux British FIM Speedway Grand Prix returns to the city. Crowds will be able to watch 16 riders compete over 23 heats, with no brakes! Multiple World Champions will be going up against each other this year, including Great Britain’s double series winner, Tai Woffinden. There will also be a fanzone with live music and stunt performances, parkour/ free running demonstrations, face painting and rider autograph sessions. The event will end with a firework display. For more: www.speedwaygp.com
Phill Lewis
FOOD
TAKE A BITE! Phill Lewis, chef and co-owner of award-winning restaurant Dusty Knuckle, has teamed up with Simon Thomas (previously of Street Food Circus) to create BITE – a new kind of food festival. There will be no fast food on offer, no food trucks and no entrance fee, but what there will be, is a real focus on provenance and quality with some fantastic local chefs and food producers. So far, Tom Furlong of Milkwood restaurant in Pontcanna, award-winning producer of Charcutier LTD Illtud Dunsford and Tommy Heaney of The Great House in Laleston (who also recently announced plans to open a restaurant in Pontcanna later this year) have all confirmed that they will be taking part.
Every chef and producer has been tasked to come up with a dish that is completely unique to the festival, and each will cost no more than £3. Phill also wants to make the BITE festival as eco-friendly as possible. “There will be no plastic packaging at BITE; every chef taking part has agreed to use eco-friendly and sustainable packaging instead. We’re also going to have staff sorting the recycling on-site, so that nothing will go to landfill. It’s something we really want to champion, and hopefully set an example of how an event like this can be done as sustainably as possible.” BITE will take place in the gardens of Insole Court mansion in Llandaff on 14 July. For more: www.insolecourt.org.uk
EDUCATION
BRIGHT SPARK A Cardiff four-year-old has become Wales’ youngest member of MENSA, the high IQ society. Georgia Grace, who attends the nursery at Howell’s School in Llandaff is one of just six pre-school MENSA members across the UK and Ireland. Georgia’s mother, Helen, noticed her daughter had a natural aptitude for learning numbers and letters as soon as she began to speak. She said: “When she was just a few months past her first birthday, we were walking in Cardiff Bay and she sounded out the letters on the BBC sign. She seems to have a really strong memory, and has always been incredibly focused, whatever she is doing. Since she started
attending the nursery at Howell’s, it’s been clear she has a real hunger for learning, always asking lots of questions with a voracious appetite for knowledge, and I had an idea that there might be something unique about her. I’m a MENSA member myself, so I knew there were tests that we could try.” After assessments last month, which lasted a total of five hours, and tested Georgia’s aptitude for English and mathematics, the results confirmed that Georgia’s IQ meant that she was eligible for MENSA membership—putting her in the top two per cent in the country.
Mini Mensa member
For more: www.howells-cardiff.gdst.net
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