MALDWYN POPE

I’d love to see you next Saturday at the Llewelyn Hall in the YMCA for a night of great chat and music. As well as having a good time you’ll also be helping keep the Counselling service alive.

If you want to make people do something or remind them of something every year you really need to come up with an annual celebration day…. so ‘Happy Wash Your Nose Day 2023 folks!

Sadly ‘Everyone Deserves’ isn’t just for Christmas. Yesterday we launched our Easter appeal in Swansea Market with a choir or two!

I love visiting the past, it’s just that I don’t want to live there. 50 years on I want to be a Butterfly and its time I grew some wings and took to the skies.

Over the years I have done any number of unusual gigs. This week I found myself hosting a concert at Westminster Cathedral, raising funds and awareness for a non-political Charity called ‘Friends of the Holy Land’. A Cathedral filled with Archbishops and Ambassadors.

Last weekend one of the most surprising and some would say ambitious political comebacks was splashed across the newspapers, radio and television. I remember when researching for the musical ‘Contender’, the story of the Heavyweight Champion Tommy Farr, reading a quote about boxing come backs. ‘The thing with come backs…they never come back!’

This week I was a guest on the Ambition is Critical Podcast with Ryan and Paddy. Episode 191…and they said it would never last! One for the dreamers with ambition everywhere.

‘Doing what you love means you never work a day in your life.’
Walt Disney is quoted as saying ‘Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional’. Johnny Tudor turns 80 tomorrow…I demand a recount!!

Sometimes even when you think you are right; you could be wrong. There is no shame in trying and failing but also there are no prizes for giving up. Ask any butterfly?

HABIT STACKING. If you find it hard to keep your New Year’s resolutions maybe you should try ‘Habit Stacking’ them?