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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
We’re living in mundane times
Gerry Barrington and Teddy Frobisher popped round for a (socially distanced) catch-up Great to see you! Come in! And you can take that grubby mask off Gerry, I’ve had my …
Annibendod Mynwy
When I was in primary school my parents decided I should sit the scholarship entrance exam for Monmouth School. Then as now the private, single-sex boarding school was a bastion …
It’s over
Text message received from my sister 29/1/21: Dad passed away peacefully today. I’m collecting his stuff from the hospital x He was two weeks short of his 97th birthday. I …
Kestrel seen in Splott!
Poor quality picture: Dic Mortimer
By their friends you shall know them
Pictures: Huffington Post, The Independent, The Conversation, Common Dreams
Anobaith
I despair. No person with a modicum of intelligence, conscience and decency can do anything other than despair in the rotten to the core UK controlled neck and crop by …
A teenager’s Christmas in Wales
Unedited entries from Five-Year Diary 1966SUNDAY DECEMBER 25thChristmas Day. Sunny & frosty. Sheaf knife from Auntie Hazel & Uncle Roy. Spirograph from Nanny & Poppa. Sports coat from Mum & …
Going Bananas
Bananas originate in the tropical jungles of today’s Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in south-east Asia, where many rare varieties of the massive Musa genus still grow wild. The ideal …
Jan Morris (1926-2020)
In the obituaries published since the death of irreplaceable Jan Morris last month, it is noticeable how many of them concentrated on comparatively inconsequential events in her extraordinary life (the …
