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 […]
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 […]
