I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their […]
Llandovery College 29 Christ College 12 Hot favourites Llandovery duly won the 127th annual fixture against their old Brecon rivals but were taken all the way by opponents who fought for every inch of the Tredegar Close pitch writes Huw […]
Nantgarw is a few miles drive north of Cardiff and is a small site packed with history. From the moment you walk through the front door of Nantgarw house, you see cabinets full of beautiful porcelain plates, cups, jugs and […]
‘Mummy can you help me I need you to come now For Bozo has gone missing And I’m going to tell you how’ ‘His friends were in the toy box When one of them awoke To find the snake’s long […]
I currently live in Denbighshire in North Wales, working as a chef in a café. My background is as a geotechnical engineer (having studied geology at Cardiff University), with stints as a factory worker and in the Army, so I […]
The 127th annual game between old rivals Christ College and Llandovery College – once described by legendary Western Mail Sports Editor JBG Thomas as Wales’s own Varsity Match – takes place on Friday October 18th at Tredegar Close, Llandovery (KO […]
Newtown is an interesting town in Mid Wales, due in part to the interesting buildings ranging from Edwardian to art deco, but also because of the history. For a small town it boasts quite a few significant people who went […]
As another day begins to dawn A piercing sound I hear It is the clock beside my bed That screams at me so near And as I place my hand upon it To block its constant cry The noise is […]
Dinas Island isn’t actually an island in the true sense of the word, it’s actually a rocky headland separated from the Pembrokeshire mainland by a narrow, marshy channel. Despite its diminutive area – this walk circumnavigates the whole headland in […]
One of the great cultural peculiarities of living in the British Isles is our intrinsic relationship with the weather. Close connections with the elements are not particularly unusual in themselves: just ask the Canadian farmer working to the coming of […]
Inspiration, I find, being personal and wherever you might trip over it is never difficult to find on Preseli. A sweeping vista perhaps. A peculiar/remarkable rock formation. Maybe something utile, left behind and seemingly forgotten as it rusts or peels: […]
I look into the mirror But what is it that I see? The person that I once did know No longer looks at me Where are you I now ask of them? You’ve left me all alone The face that […]
