The Spring Garden 2025
Whatever happened to the ‘April showers’? I have been heavily occupied with watering due to cracking ground and drooping leaves and not just for new plants. At the time of writing there are no clouds in a clear blue sky, […]
Latest Features
Big Crisis in Welsh Rugby – Where it All Went Wrong
Former Western Mail Schools Correspondent and Rugby World Schools Editor Huw S Thomas gives his view over the causes of Wales’s current decline in the world of rugby Argument and discussion rages over the decline of Welsh fortunes at all […]
My Dog Can’t Read…
New from the author Of Iolo’s Revenge My dog can’t read … More tales from an accidental farmer My dog can’t read, but if I sent him a postcard, he’d sniff it and know I was fine and thinking of […]
Lift Away
Slip away a day And sail above the clouds. Leave behind your thoughts. And silence all that’s loud. Look up above your head And look far down below. Forget all your troubles. And forget all your woes. Where shall you […]
Tourist Maps and the Bike Craze of the 1890s
“It would hardly be too much to say that in April of 1895 one was considered eccentric for riding a bicycle, whilst by the end of June eccentricity rested with those who did not ride.” Constance Everett-Green, 1898. The boom […]
Judge Jeffreys (1645-1689)
You need to go some to earn the epithet ‘infamous’. George Jeffreys, or 1st Baron Jeffreys as he became, was a Welsh judge who was, well, infamous. He’s also known to history as ‘the Hanging Judge’. In his determination to […]
Re-wilding the River Taff
Not many people visit Cardiff to see the salmon leaping. The Taff’s not had a positive image. Robert Minnhinnick wrote that the river was once ‘a quilt of iron dust…a coal vein broken open to the light.’ Many think that […]
Beside the Seaside
Long before short haul flights abroad were even thought of, we Brits liked to roll up our sleeves, turn up our trousers legs and even don our bathing suits as we holidayed at home. Numerous ‘hot spots’ around our coastline […]
Four Thousand Years is Not a Long Time
Coetan Arthur, Arthur’s Quoit, stands on St David’s Head, where Wales meets the western sea. It’s 4000 years since Neolithic people devoted themselves to making this mark, here, in their community. It’s one of the oldest buildings in the world, […]
The Magic That is Wales
Wales has so much to offer photographers – epic landscapes, waterfalls, mountains, beaches and wildlife, as well as human interest – historic buildings, architecture and cultural heritage. I love living here and consider myself incredibly lucky to do so. Over […]
What is it About the Montgomery Canal?
What is it About the Montgomery Canal? It Disappeared, Only to Reappear Later – Much Later Canals have been a vital part of this country’s development from the eighteenth century – at the very dawn of the industrial revolution – […]
I Can’t Give Anymore…The Peter Ham Story
There is no memorial to Peter Ham. No stone, no statue, no plaque. His ashes were scattered to the winds at Morriston Crematorium in Swansea in 1975. And if there was such a memorial, what would it say? Peter Ham […]