“One of the things I’ve witnessed over the years that has upset me the most is the attitude of a couple towards their children when a relationship breaks down. No child is damaged by the breakdown of a marriage, on the contrary, if they are in an unhappy home then […]

It has a double summit. Not in the sense that the largest mountains in the world have but it is there nonetheless. Your legs are already filling with the lactic acid that makes each step laborious but when you crest the incline after 400 metres of steep hillwalking at a […]

“Did I cry for you that day? The day you left me half an orphan? I’m sorry but I rejoiced, I smiled, not a single tear did I shed then nor since. Before me was the dessicated husk of my hero, a man I loved but never showed. Hollowed burned […]

People are incredibly complex creatures. Scientists have spent years, decades, even centuries trying to establish why people behave the way they do, why two people can react to identical emotional stimuli in different ways, at times those reactions may even be complete opposites of each other. Why should this be […]

COMPETITIVE SPORT When I was 15, I snapped my leg in half. Playing at Trelai against Ely Rangers for Cardiff City U16’s. It hurt for about five seconds, especially when I attempted to ‘stamp it off’ as we were so often told to do when picking up a knock. Then […]

“I remember sitting on the steps of All Saints Church in Rhiwbina village as a fourteen year old, having a conversation with my friend Marc. We had been watching a load of ‘old’ women, in their 30’s, making their way to the pub. We wondered whether as we got older […]

Where do you even begin with a subject like this? With the exception of religion I cannot think of a more divisive subject matter. Everyone has an opinion. Even if you say you couldn’t care and don’t even bother to vote you will be assaulted with the Suffragette argument and […]

As distant to me as the furthest star in the heavens where you sleep, My child, my son, my heir, You were ours, and we loved you. We lost you without the chance to tell you that, To hold you, to kiss you, to cherish you I think of you […]

RACISM Racism is a term that is so often misused that it is worth stating the exact definition here, so everyone can see what I am referring to…. 1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the […]