“You never know quite where you’re halfway to,” asserts my companion as we drive past the Ebenezer Apostolic Church at ‘Halfway’. The village name sign corroborates this, and the curved B4302 road from Llandeilo amplifies it by persistently preventing my […]
The last few months have been difficult to endure. Normally a staunch fan of autumn and winter, even I have been forced to think twice this year. Whether it’s down to El Nino, climate change, the planet’s cycles or, more […]
Llanwrtyd Wells is reputedly the smallest town in Britain – it’s certainly one of the best positioned, with stunning upland countryside surrounding it on all four sides. This walk explores some of the countryside, heading north alongside the Afon Irfon […]
Seaside pockets And buried shells. Salt tongued silence And white bird yells. Stop still rocks And seaweed splashes. Tidal bowls And urchin lashes. Blue spilt skies And black winged splatter. Tall spire spill And old bell clatter. Paddled bird And […]
Covid-19 has had a huge impact across Wales and businesses are no exception and as we are all well aware uncertainty in the food market is the enemy. Globalised supply chains have in the past produced advantages in terms of […]
Consider, if you will, some news from the Welsh courts in April 1893 In Cardiff there may have been some serious crimes indeed, but I want to talk about Catherine Holland, who was sent to gaol for a month, with […]
I arrived in Tywyn by bus. Lloyds Bus Route #30 from Dolgellau on the A473. I had newly acquired friends to visit and I was being drawn by The Talyllyn Railway – Rheilffordd Talyllyn. From Tywyn came the inspiration of […]
A painter’s moving window Framed by sea and sky. A patterned map of faces Of hazy passers-by. A fog-horned dingy in a deep stacked fog. A cerulean mirror. An artist’s weather log. A pop-up port at every journey’s stop. A […]
I watched a blackbird on a budding sycamore One Easter Day, when sap was stirring twigs to the core; I saw his tongue, and crocus-coloured bill Parting and closing as he turned his trill; Then he flew down, seized on […]
Geoff Brookes travels to Llanfihangel Abercowyn, Carmarthenshire to find six mysterious medieval graves It is a modern road that leads us from Carmarthen to St. Clears, in south-west Wales. Fast and efficient it takes us quickly to the west towards […]
