We’ve had the builders in. Having lived here for 11 years and done absolutely nothing in the way of home improvements apart from unavoidable essentials (dead boiler, crumbling render, rotting …

Usual prize for first solution received. Answers in August. Give it a try! ACROSS 9 Try to allocate fair shares in rota (6,3) 10 Try empty Welsh home (5) 11 Try, …

Franklin Englishman: A very warm welcome to Gardeners’ Question Time. Today the programme comes from a fly-tip off Seawall Road in southern Cardiff where the panel and I are the …

With apologies to Charles Penrose (1873-1952) I know a laughable president who rules the world by tweet, A fat and orange porky-pie, he really is a treat, He’s too thick …

Water covers 70% of the planet’s surface. Water constitutes 60% of the human body. We come from water and we shall return to water. Two hydrogen atoms bonded to a single …

The movable Christian feast known amongst other things as Shrove Tuesday, Dydd Mawrth Ynyd, Carnival or Mardi Gras (depending on whether you’re from Bognor, Bangor, Barranquilla or the Bayou) is on February 28th this …

If everybody had my ecological footprint our planet would be fantastic. I don’t own a car – I walk or use public transport and conduct a hyper-local life. I never go …