{"id":46453,"date":"2020-12-18T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=46453"},"modified":"2020-12-18T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T20:33:05","slug":"poems-weddings-and-helping-the-homeless-2020-at-the-quaint-little-shack-that-serves-coffee-to-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/12\/18\/poems-weddings-and-helping-the-homeless-2020-at-the-quaint-little-shack-that-serves-coffee-to-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems, weddings and helping the homeless – 2020 at ‘The Quaint Little Shack’ that serves coffee to Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2020 has been a year many would choose to forget, but Brodies coffee shop has been a much needed ‘spot of kindness’<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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IN 2020, unprecedented became the norm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time moved strangely – March became Christmas, afternoons became days, routines became blurs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numbers – from Covid cases to biscuits eaten – became meaningless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been an overwhelming year, filled with breaking news alerts warning us of chaos and sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there have been moments of light. Neighbourhood support groups, drunken zoom quizzes, perfected banana breads. Within the extraordinary mayhem of 2020, people have tried to carve their new ordinaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some Cardiff residents, their new ordinary has been their daily coffee, brewed in a small blue cabin nestled in Gorsedd Gardens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This everyday ritual is no longer a mere caffeine kick, but a link to a community defined by positivity and joyfulness. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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