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What a woebegone world
With apologies to Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) and Bob Thiele (1922-1996) & George Weiss (1921-2010) I see forests burnAnd heat domes fry,Foretastes of doomFor you and I,And I think to myselfWhat …
Cardiff catch-up
What with one thing and another I haven’t written much about contemporary Cardiff for quite a while. It’s time for a bit of a catch-up, looking at 10 selected topics …
Streets rocked to sleep by the sea*
*From Under Milk Wood I’ve got some bad news for Cardiff. Ever-accelerating global heating is melting ice-caps and glaciers and rapidly raising sea-levels. Unless this process is stopped and reversed …
Flora Cardiffia
I regularly used to drive up and down the M4 between London and Wales in the 1970s and 1980s, initially on a motorbike and subsequently in a car. When I …
Pandemic pandemonium
There have been countless reactions to living through this extraordinary time of pandemic: anguished lamentations, deranged panic, long-haul stoicism, bogus casualness, oblivious disassociation, creepy anthrophilia, weepy self-pity, contrived defiance, Panglossian …
The months
With apologies to Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) January brings the fires,Dead koalas, rightwing liars. February brings fierce storms,Setting new destructive norms. March brings toxic air alerts,Gets so bad that breathing hurts. …
2084
Decree (1/2084) from the Planetary Emergency Government In order to save the Earth, these policies shall now be implemented: ■ Mass sterilisation of all males■ Free abortion on demand■ Free …
Humans, we have a problem
The nightmare is becoming ever more horrifying. This month alone, the evidence of the insane environmental catastrophe mankind is inflicting upon our one and only planet has been coming thick …
Urban rats
Note: In this post the word ‘rat’ is not a metaphor for cad, cheat, nark, traitor or general bastard, of which there are plenty in Cardiff – well, not explicitly …
999
Emergency services, which service do you require – ambulance, fire, police or coastguard? Um…the police I suppose. Hold the line caller, connecting you now. South Wales Police control centre, please …