Looking back at 2020 as a member of and being involved in running an angling club I have realised the value of angling not only to the economy but to people’s health in general. One of the most striking things […]
At first, I didn’t like it. The Lower School was a tall, forbidding stone building on Meyrick St. in Pembroke Dock. The playground, too, had high prisonlike walls surrounding us and a covered area where we could huddle together in […]
The 16th of March has come around again. So what? you may ask, as would anyone else whose birthday or anniversary doesn’t happen to fall on that day. What’s so special about a nondescript day that barely has a toehold […]
I grew up alongside the Mawddach Estuary and its exceptional beauty and although I moved away for work, my family and I like to get back there whenever we can. Environmental concerns have been growing in the general public since […]
How a recent conversation with my Nan may have changed the way I do photography. As much as I love spending my time photographing some of the well-known beauty spots here in Wales, I have been finding a great deal […]
As Stratford-upon-Avon is to Shakespeare, so the colourful Carmarthenshire town of Laugharne is to Wales’s own literary icon, Dylan Thomas. So a visit to the enigmatic poet’s home and study, on the shores of the picturesque Taf Estuary, should be […]
“What the hell was that?!” “What?” “That!!!” Rachel’s never been one for creepy-crawlies, especially those that fly, even those that are as pretty as this moth that’s darting around the lamp behind the armchair, its shadow as skittish as a […]
Have you ever been committed enough to complete a challenge spanning a whole country? Tony Mair decided to catch a river trout from all 22 ‘counties’ in Wales; a mission that he eventually completed across several adventure filled seasons. Here […]
They’ve closed the bridge! By ‘they’ I mean, of course, the local council, and by ‘the bridge’, I don’t mean a bridge, or any bridge; I mean the bridge. It still surprises me how so many people, myself included, can […]
Rugby writer Huw S Thomas reports on the 15 Welsh sportsmen to have had statues erected in their memory Statues are in the news – and for the wrong reason. Sadly there is more discussion on their destruction rather than […]
