sNOw Day
I remember the day I told my dad I was going to buy a motor bike. His reaction was that he forbid it. I then had to remind him that I was 28 years old with a mortgage and 2 kids, I was a grown up. For so much of our time here on earth …
Go, go, go, go!
There is a word that I like that I think we should use more often, that we should try to implement more often in our lives. That word is ‘intent’. It’s a bit difficult to define but I know it when I see it. I also know when I hear it and this week I …
Keep On Running
It’s week 3 of my new fitness regime and I’m quite surprised to admit that I’m still running. The turn of a new year is a strange thing. From the last week of November and through the whole of December everything in my life that needed any real thought or planning seemed to go on …
Musicians…and Drummers!
There are lots of different musician jokes. What do you call a bass player without a girlfriend? Homeless. How do you make a lead guitarist turn down? Put some sheet music in front of him. What do you call a beautiful woman on a trombonist’s arm? A Tattoo. What’s the difference between chopping up …
That was 2017!
As we come to the end of another year it is customary to look back at the highlights, and low lights, that have made the year special in one way or another. One of the benefits of having to write 1000 words every week for this blog is that as I look back at the …
That which does not kill us…Stronger
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche – Philosopher All dressed up with no where to go? So here we are the day after, the day after, the night before. The circus has left town and Swansea is left to get ready for Christmas. But what a feeling there …
From Carnegie Hall to The Hyst
There are a lot of special deals around at this time of year. Trading officers always give some basic advice, if it looks to good to be true, then it probably is. I suppose those types of thoughts were going around in my head when I got a call from Ian Parsons, a friend of …
Happy Birthday Fireman Sam
I remember walking into the Fellow’s Garden at Christ College Cambridge in 2005. This was the 25th anniversary for those students who had matriculated in 1979. This was the first time I had gone back to my old college as an ex student and I was worried that although life had been very kind to …
Your past maybe rubbish but its time to move on.
Time caught up with me this week and it wasn’t very nice. I’ve been meaning to empty my parents garage of all my old rubbish for years but this week it finally happened and I was left with lots of old cardboard boxes stacked 4 high in my front room. My mum has cut out …
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Get ready to feel the Afterglow
One of the things I love about this town is that it has a healthy disregard for how special it really it. I’m sure that can be terribly frustrating if you are trying to sell Swansea to the world but it’s part of our culture and something that makes living here special. But lately there …