The Giant Ladybird
The giant ladybird filled Aurora’s eyes with an immediate sense of awe. Sat comfortably with her knees tucked up tight on her old Edwardian sofa Aurora knew immediately that what she had just seen was not of this world. The […]
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A World War One True Mystery
“It all started when I needed a nice tablecloth!” In December 2018 Anne and Damian Ward of Llangammarch Wells had family over for a one off Christmas visit from Australia and South Africa. When looking for a ‘nice tablecloth’ in […]
Room
“Go to your room!” How many of us dreaded those words as children? To a young person with more energy than a nuclear reactor, all the time of youth to fill and a wide world to explore, that one phrase […]
Geoff Brookes’ Welsh History – September 1854, Jones
For quite a few people called Jones, September 1854 was not their best month. In Cardiff Jane Jones repeatedly stopped respectable persons in Duke Street. For this she was arrested, though in court she was cautioned and discharged, since it […]
Natures New
The peacock buttery sits flat; magnificent; military-like; and luminous. A single small white feather lay earthed in solitude beneath my breath. Brown fingered buzzards soar low and brave. Weed waved knots grow back clump-like and strong. Mustard bubbled blooms return […]
The Early Autumn Garden 2021
I love the fitful gust that shakes The casement all the day, And from the glossy elm tree takes The faded leaves away, Twirling them by the window pane With thousand others down the lane. John Clare (1793-1864) Before the […]
Moelwyn Mawr, Snowdonia
As Snowdon becomes increasingly popular, so the surrounding mountain ranges start to feel more and more remote, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Moelwyns, where it’s still possible to walk for hours without seeing a soul. This […]
Nathaniel Wells – Monmouthshire’s Black Slave Owner
I‘m sure most readers (like me) were taught in Junior School how Britain set a wonderful example to the rest of the world in the 1800s by abolishing the slave trade, then slavery itself, forgetting of course that we helped […]
Shifts
The heat is beginning to seep out of the day now, and in response everything slowly stills like the final ripples weakening ripples pushed out by a rock tossed into a pond. The cats doze in the shadows, voices have […]
Ynys Llanddwyn
Ynys Llanddwyn is a small tidal island off the west coast of Anglesey (Welsh: Ynys Môn), northwest Wales. The nearest town is Newborough. Bus Number 42 stopped not far off from Wiwer Goch Café on Pendref St. The Red Squirrel […]
Black Bart the Welsh Pirate of the Caribbean
Geoff Brookes takes an insight into ‘Black Bart’ our very own Welsh legend and pirate of the Caribbean I would like to show you his grave but I cannot, for his body was thrown overboard wrapped in a sail. Others […]
Augustus John (1878-1961)
He could quite legitimately have said: ‘Come up and see my etchings’. Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961) was a Welsh painter, Tenby born (4th January 1878), who studied at the Slade in London (1896-99) with elder sister Gwen, of whom more […]