Shree! Shree! Shree! Shree! Shree! Shree! Shree! Shree! Shree! I glance up from my garden-table breakfast to the source of that piercing racket and see there, on the roof, the baby herring gull. Clearly, it’s hungry. I am not normally […]
Sometimes you have to just drop it all and head on out. In our case, this meant throwing together a picnic and heading out to the back end of Margam country park. Stopping at the wooden adventure playground to allow […]
You haven’t done that yet I know You haven’t done that either Yes, I know. I’m not trying to be awkward here but, well, how are you going to get all those things done tomorrow if you also have tomorrow’s […]
“Look out!” Elle and I just managed to move to one side as the shed panel tumbled to the ground with a thudding CRASH! What started as a calm, civilised father-daughter deconstruction operation soon gave way to the standard over-exuberance […]
I have always placed great stock in the value of words. Unfortunately, it seems that modern society is far less enamoured than I. In an age where neologisms abound in time with every new form of social media, when the […]
Except, of course, that magic doesn’t really exist. Only within the pages of fantasy books and fairy tales, and inside some rather overactive imaginations. It all started with a bang. Next came a puff of smoke and the lights went […]
Excellent. I’d been searching for this for ages, and now I’d found it, all that was left was to order it. Just enter the payment method and click…hang on, what’s this? A small box appeared on the screen, headed with […]
Once upon a time there was an office, and at one end of that office, behind the door which led to two toilets, there was a ‘kitchenette’. This consisted of a beige worktop with an inset stainless steel sink and […]
The percussive crashes of the storm reverberated through the house and fractured all notion of sleep. It wasn’t a problem, as the working week was over and I had no need to wake early for work, so for hours I […]
Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that we were stringing up the twinkling lights of Yuletide, then hiding eggs for Easter and yet here we are once more, saying goodbye to the autumn half-term holiday and, […]
Even as I step out of the front door I can feel it in the air. All seems still, the air leaden, dense and motionless and yet… Despite the stillness, there is a definite tension, a sense of the unmoving […]
The arrival of autumn is always heralded by the usual signs: stormier more unsettled weather, the colourful turning of the leaves, many-hued autumnal wreaths and the re-emergence of cinnamon-infused treats in the coffee shops. No different to anywhere else but […]
