Looking back allows you to see that some things in life are simply meant to be. You don’t appreciate that at the time, of course, there is far too much wood to see the trees, but hindsight allows you to see what actually was blatantly obvious. My grandfather died either […]
“To be a father is an impossible thing to describe to a daughter. There is no frame of reference as a child, or even as an adult, at which you will ever feel for one second what a father does. Of course, that is not your fault, how could it […]
Twas the night before Xmas, at seven thirty I’m in bed, The world alive with emotion, but for now I am dead. I have nothing to cry for, there are others more hamstrung than me, So there’s guilt in each tear as they work their way free. Christmas I lived for, […]
The Rubicon is a small, almost non-descript river that meanders in the northern reaches of Italy for about fifty miles, before entering the Adriatic Sea. It is of little note to anyone these days, other than those who choose to fish along its banks, or choose to paddle in its […]
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, that’s for sure. The trees decked with this year’s colour scheme and always too many lights that shine out of rain specked windows, the wreaths upon the occasional door and the house on North Road that is legendary throughout Cardiff, with more […]
TOP TEN SPORTSMEN So here it is. The sportsmen who I have admired most in 42 years of sport. I have restricted myself to only one player per sport and there are no women in my list. This is for a very simple reason. Women are just not very good […]
HUMAN NATURE In the last few days, in the stinging aftermath of the events that unfolded in France, the reaction of people has both bewildered and amazed me. Naivety on my part perhaps? Probably. I have always been fascinated by human behaviour, why we do the things we do, what […]
As I sit in the safe haven of my own bedroom, sat at a laptop typing away, it is hard to comprehend the events of last night. Graphic images on the TV screen presented in high definition clarity offer only the merest insight. There is no terror here, not now, […]
For what is there that cannot be built with a word, or destroyed in a momentary lapse of clarity? Empires forged and forsaken on a lover’s broken promise, Sanctuary for fragile minds found in pages, where broken worlds heal and become whole, To read is more than just to escape, […]
The WorkplaceSo let’s start with something that I think we can all agree on, should a man and woman, both doing the exact same job to the exact same standard be paid the same salary. Hands up if you said no? Thought not. OK then, what if a man and […]
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