Peter Huw Jenkins

There's just snow way of telling.

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.

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.

A list of games in chronological order read, year released and finished status. Mouthwashing and Hades have their posters at the bottom of the image because they were the two really good ones. Helldivers 2 Monument Valley / Forgotten Shores / Ida's RED Dream Halo 2 (Co-Op Campaign) Mouthwashing Doom Halo 3 (Co-Op Campaign) Halo ODST (Co-Op Campaign) Halo Wars (Co-Op Campaign) Sword of the Sea Hades Terminator: No Fate Black Mesa Skate Story Venineth The Berlin Apartment

Finally (I've lost my theatre list this year... I will do better next year), games. Don't really feel I've finished enough to do proper highlights, other than to say Mouthwashing is very good, as is Hades.

Working my way through the Halo series (for the first time) with a mate has been great.

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A list of films in chronological order read, those highlighted in blue were particularly good ones marked with asterisks (except Thunderbolts which just has one as part of it's title so ignore that) below and their posters are shown at the bottom of the image. Changing Lanes Demonlover Hundreds of Beavers The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 The Cocoanuts Animal Crackers* Monkey Business Horse Feathers Duck Soup Anaria Message from Space Hoosiers Moana 2 Fast X Predator: Killer of Killers* The Silent Star Three Days of the Condor* Signals: A Space Adventure Thirteen Days KPop Demon Hunters* Miss Sloane Thunderbolts* The Andromeda Strain* The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes The Fantastic Four: First Steps Babylon 5: The Road Home The Invasion Saboteur Perfect Days Shadow of a Doubt The Trouble with Harry* Flow Wild Robot The Mirror Crack'd MAJOR! Marnie Carnival of Souls The Shape of Water* Family Plot Sinners* First Man The Guns of Navarone* Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery A Christmas Carol Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

Second are the films seen, 45 of them. As always, it's a good opportunity to dive into classics that I haven't seen and some real gems including Animal Crackers, The Trouble with Harry and the Guns of Navarone.

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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.

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.

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"What is sexier than measurements..." - Natalie Watson

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.

This Tuesday. Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth at 7pm.

We're in the little O'Neill's on Trinity Street.

Star Wars embracing questioning nature of the force is as likely as Disney movies confronting and questioning the divine right of monarchy. It's like a core foundation of the material.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Mural that reads: NI YW'R DYFRGWN SY'N WHARE'N YR AFON A CHYNNYRCH Y PRIDD AR Y BWRDD: NI YW'R WEN AR WYNEBAU HEN DDYNION A'R WYLAN SY'N HEDFAN I FFWRDD. NI YW'R PYSGOD A'R CASTELL A'R PERCI I GYD: NI YWR PLANT SYDD YN GWARCHOD DYFODOL EIN BYD. Translated: WE ARE THE OTTER THAT FLOATS THE RIVER AND THE PRODUCE OF THE SOIL ON THE TABLE: WE ARE THE SMILE ON THE FACES OF OLD MEN AND THE SEAGULL THAT FLYES AWAY. WE ARE ALL THE FISH AND THE CASTLE AND THE PERKY: WE ARE THE CHILDREN WHO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD.

Cardigan market in the Corn Exchange.

Me (Peter Huw Jenkins) with St Dogmaels below me.

An sculpture of an otter with the river Teifi in the background. It is a beautiful sunny day.

On Saturday afternoon and Sunday I was in Cardigan. It was great to see the Corn Exchange and go on a walk to the literal land of my fathers in St Dogmaels.

It's been too long and the sun absolutely picked the right moment to come shining through.

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.

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

Picture of the outside of the new Fairwater Community Campus.

People in high vis in a brand new kitchen classroom area.

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.

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.

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

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Many other countries use a similar levy to balance the benefits and pressures of tourism.

A small contribution will make a huge difference to both residents and tourists, and will help us maintain and enhance the attractions we all love.

We love welcoming visitors from around the world to Wales—and we want to continue doing so for years to come.

I’m delighted to seal the Visitor Levy Bill. It allows councils to introduce a small change on overnight stays, with all funds reinvested locally to support tourism.

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.

They allegedly responded that they would pay absolutely nothing for any maintenance but were happy for the tree surgeons to remove, entirely, said tree.

Obviously the professionals made it clear that this was not an option.

I have to be a little careful of what I say, and be clear that this is allegedly.

The residents are paying for the overhang, the person responsible for the land on which the tree sits was asked whether they'd like to contribute a proportion and have the whole tree done.

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.

Genuinely thought they made this guy's species up for Outlaws, turns out I just forgot a real one from back in the day. #Kalaah-Nah

Two people holding Labour leaflets on a bright sunny day.

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 in front of the Radyr & Morganstown sign.

Out today in Radyr & Morganstown knocking doors, talking to residents.

We'll leave no part of Caerdydd Penarth uncontacted.

Four Councillors, standing and smiling, from left to right Cllr Huw Thomas, Cllr Peter Huw Jenkins, Cllr Bethan Proctor, Cllr Ash Lister.

A tree on a hill of rocks with fog in the background.

A lake with sheer cliffs all around.

Finally, for some godforsaken reason, I agreed to go up Moel Siabod, I'm glad I did it and I'm sure the more my body recovers the gladder I'll get.