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Mal Pope

Hooked on Rugby

Thank goodness we are half way through January already.  I don’t want to wish my life away but really, January?  It’s a difficult month.  Earlier this week I was extolling the virtues of this year’s January weather on my early morning radio show.  Walking into the office at 4.30am if felt almost spring like.  ‘January …

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Happy New Year???

Well its nearly all over.  Christmas that is.  It’s been nearly 2 weeks of chocolate for breakfast, watching 3 films before teatime and everyone asking each other what day it is.  There is something special about Twixtmas, that dreamy week between Christmas and the New Year ,but now it’s back to January, talk of another …

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Memories…

In this world of noise there is something strange and very special about observing a silence.  Tomorrow at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 1th month we will remember those who have given their lives in the service of their country. I hope to start the day at the Cenotaph on the …

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God Bless AmericanWelsh

Mal Pope 1st Sept Out of the 56 people who signed the American Declaration of independence 16 could trace their roots back to Wales.  5 of the first 6 presidents were also “Welsh’,. That actually doesn’t include President Jefferson Davies of the Confederacy during the Civil War. John Adams, who took over the role of …

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