A businessman who has written about the war poet Robert Graves believes Remembrance Sunday is a time to reflect on the end of hostilities of the Great War. The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World […]
Geoff Brookes travels to the battlefields of Ypres to find William Jones We went to the battlefields of the Ypres Salient to find William Jones, one man amongst thousands. You can go there and be overwhelmed by the number of […]
What could be more beautiful Than sunlight on the shore And a little boat out rowing And just paddling with one ore. What could make you happier Than the sound of passing geese And seeing golden plane trails Drawing lines […]
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their […]
Llandovery College 29 Christ College 12 Hot favourites Llandovery duly won the 127th annual fixture against their old Brecon rivals but were taken all the way by opponents who fought for every inch of the Tredegar Close pitch writes Huw […]
Nantgarw is a few miles drive north of Cardiff and is a small site packed with history. From the moment you walk through the front door of Nantgarw house, you see cabinets full of beautiful porcelain plates, cups, jugs and […]
‘Mummy can you help me I need you to come now For Bozo has gone missing And I’m going to tell you how’ ‘His friends were in the toy box When one of them awoke To find the snake’s long […]
I currently live in Denbighshire in North Wales, working as a chef in a café. My background is as a geotechnical engineer (having studied geology at Cardiff University), with stints as a factory worker and in the Army, so I […]
The 127th annual game between old rivals Christ College and Llandovery College – once described by legendary Western Mail Sports Editor JBG Thomas as Wales’s own Varsity Match – takes place on Friday October 18th at Tredegar Close, Llandovery (KO […]
Newtown is an interesting town in Mid Wales, due in part to the interesting buildings ranging from Edwardian to art deco, but also because of the history. For a small town it boasts quite a few significant people who went […]
As another day begins to dawn A piercing sound I hear It is the clock beside my bed That screams at me so near And as I place my hand upon it To block its constant cry The noise is […]
Dinas Island isn’t actually an island in the true sense of the word, it’s actually a rocky headland separated from the Pembrokeshire mainland by a narrow, marshy channel. Despite its diminutive area – this walk circumnavigates the whole headland in […]
