The Buddhas of Henshaw Street Movement-stopping sweat-dripping breath stealing pavement-shimmering air-deadening heat. Slow down. Stop. When every single minor movement has the power to induce the pores to break out into spontaneous torrents of perspiration, it’s difficult to motivate the […]
If you feel that you’d like to get away from it all and pop back to August 1839 for a while, I have a number of employment opportunities that you could consider. Some might require a level of experience that […]
“What shall I wear tonight?” thought Leah as she mindfully covered her vintage French bed with her marshal like dresses and her warden-like shoes. Skipper lay sleeping on his new carpet square of early evening sunshine; “C’mon Skipper. Help me […]
The year of 700 A.D. heralded the end of Roman Caerleon, which was destroyed by the Saxons in a sudden attack. Yes, the attack was definitely sudden and it could have been at night because excavations there in 2010 discovered […]
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 […]
‘Resilience’ is the key word of the moment. At least, it is at the school in which I teach. For the last year or so, in form time, assemblies and all lessons ranging from English to PE and Technology, we, […]
To resume the history of Caerleon: Aurelius continued to abuse his authority as governor relentlessly …. until the vassal king Athrwys decided to ‘stop the rot’ and end the widespread civil unrest by marching into Caerleon with his own troops […]
There is a river valley in Montgomeryshire. It is like a finger of Englishness poking into the heart of Welsh-speaking Wales. The River Rhiw is 8 miles long and flows east, close to the villages of New Mills, Manafon, and […]
With a nostalgic inhalation of seaweed and a gentle hand clasp of tiny winkle shells, Leah mindfully glanced the length and breadth of the long and meandering promenade. Skipper predictably zig-zagged at speed up and down the beach stopping only […]
Now I will describe what happened in detail, with more dates. Caerleon was the largest, most powerful and richest of the 4 major cities in Roman Britain. It had a permanently stationed legion (Legio II Augusta) that was based there […]
The headline in the South Wales Evening Post in July 1898, ‘Racing An Express Train.’ does not come anywhere near indicating just how irritated the Cardiff police were becoming with 13 year old John Ring, who was charged with trespassing […]
Located in the far northwest corner of the Brecon Beacons National Park, Carn Goch is one of the largest and most impressive hill forts in all of Wales. It’s actually two forts in one; Y Gaer Fach (the small fort) […]
