The Apothecary, Cardiff

04/01/2026

🌲 Real Christmas trees can go out for garden waste collection between 6–30 January 2026:
• Place directly on the pavement (not in bins/sacks)
• Don’t block paths
• Remove decorations
• Cut in half if taller than 7ft
You can take real or artificial Christmas trees to your local recycling centre.
Please book a visit to a recycling centre 👉 https://orlo.uk/dZnmY
Thank you for helping us keep recycling right! ♻️

04/01/2026

Haze for days…. Welcome to 2026!

Both bars are open Saturday from 2pm for your early January Crafty fix. On Sunday Canton is open from 12 and Penarth from 2. Then we’re back to our normal Wednesday-Sunday schedule from next week!

01/01/2026

This word always finds us when we are quiet.

Hiraeth is not just missing a place. It is missing a feeling. A version of home that lives somewhere deep inside you.

Sometimes it is a village lane, a coastline, a valley, or a house that does not exist anymore.

Sometimes it is a time. Sometimes it is people.
You can feel it when you leave Wales. You can feel it even when you are still here. It shows up in the wind on a cold evening, in the sound of the sea, in songs that hit a little harder than they should. It is pride and grief sitting side by side.

Hiraeth is loving where you come from so deeply that it stays with you wherever you go. It is carrying home in your chest. It is knowing you belong, even when life takes you far away.

If this word has ever stopped you in your tracks, you are not alone. Millions of us feel it. Quietly. Constantly. Together.

Yma o hyd. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿♥️

01/01/2026

No one will raise your vibration for you.
That part is yours. 🔥

01/01/2026

Happy New Year to you all wishing you health wealth and happiness

31/12/2025

The beginning of a new year is a time when many of us will be choosing to leave behind parts of ourselves and discover the new.

Leaving the past behind is very much the domain of Honeysuckle.

Nora quoted Dr Bach as saying of Honeysuckle:
This is the remedy to remove from the mind the regrets and sorrows of the past, to counteract all influences, all wishes and desires of the past and to bring us back to the present….

Significantly, Lonicera caprifolium, which is Bach’s Honeysuckle, begins to break into leaf in December-January. As the days begin to lengthen, it is one of the first plants to respond to the new and to release the old.

As we stride forward into the new year, the spirit of Honeysuckle is a welcome companion.

https://www.bachflowerlearning.com/the-language-of-plants/honeysuckle/

31/12/2025

Ready for January 1st 2026

Stand at your doorway and gently blow a pinch of cinnamon across the threshold into your home, holding in mind the energy you wish to welcome.

Then repeat slowly...
By hearth and hinge,
by door and beam,
I speak these words,
I weave this seam.
Health and plenty cross this line,
protected now by will of mine.
Let love step in,
let laughter ring,
let joy take hold and settle in.
Ɓlessed Ɓe xx

🐾 Please keep cinnamon safely away from pets.

31/12/2025

🎉 HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE!

🍻 We’d like to thank you for all your support this year! Every can, pint or glass of wine helps an independent business stay alive in these extremely trying times.

🎊 Join us this evening as we bid farewell to 2025 and ring in 2026! Penarth open 2-late, Canton open 3-late

29/12/2025

The Yew Fairy ~ By Cicely Mary Barker (1923)

“Here, on the dark and solemn Yew,
A marvel may be seen,
Where waxen berries, pink and new,
Appear amid the green.

I sit a-dreaming in the tree,
So old and yet so new;
One hundred years, or two, or three
Are little to the Yew.

I think of bygone centuries,
And seem to see anew
The archers face their enemies
With bended bows of Yew.”

Cicely Mary Barker was an English illustrator. Since the first publication of her Flower Fairies in 1923, they have enchanted both adults and children alike around the world. The botanically accurate drawings in the 170 original illustrations, coupled with the enchanting fairy images based on real children from Cicely’s sister’s nursery school, appeal to our innate sense of magic and wonder.

Originally accompanied by a poem or verse dedicated to the individual Flower Fairy the charming characters and detailed artwork have also been translated into fiction for young readers as well as the New York Times bestselling Fairyopolis series.

Source: flowerfairies (dot) com

28/12/2025