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Oranges are not the only oranges
The Citrus genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the Rutaceae family produces a range of fruits that it is hard to imagine life without. It is a very rare …
An American in London
It was around 1973/74 when I first encountered Adam in Holland Park, a delightful green woodland on the high ground between Kensington and Notting Hill in west London. He was …
Cardiff fires
Here, in chronological order, is a selection of some of the bigger fires that have happened over the years in Cardiff. Excluded are fires in domestic buildings, fires caused by …
Rebuker
Somewhat after Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) Last night I dreamt I went to Blaenllechau again…I came upon it suddenly; the approach masked by serried ranks of terraced housing on the …
Enwau Benywaidd/Feminine Nouns
For an introduction to the grammatical gender of Welsh nouns see this blog’s companion piece Enwau Gwryaidd/Masculine Nouns KEY●Most plurals are formed by adding the suffix shown after a dash●Plurals …
Stevens the anti-Welsh Secretary
Jo Stevens is an ignorant, fanatical British unionist – in other words, a typical member of Kier Starmer’s cabinet. Starmer picked her for the job of Welsh Secretary precisely because …
Jump jockeys of Wales
With Wales excluded from most sports – see Sport in Cardiff for more – and with Welsh rugby union, the sport that defined our nation for over a century, being …
Starmer the harmer
In October’s Caerffili by-election Labour lost the previously safe seat and its share of the vote collapsed from 46% to 11%. Should something similar happen in the 2026 Senedd election, …
The writing on the wall
1 Will Rees was walking his dog early in the morning when he came across Val in the local park. She was lying in a pool of blood on a …
Nasty Nigel
Last year, in return for abstaining in a key Senedd vote, Plaid Cymru extracted a promise from Labour to introduce a law before the 2026 election that would disqualify any …