I think it’s the way I was brought up. I always feel the need to apologise and this week has been no exception. Its April, we are in the middle of a mini heat wave and Swansea has gone sun crazy. OK by the time you read this we might have all turned our central …
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With the Rev Samuel Billy Kyles at his church in Memphis 2000 (I wrote this back in August 2013. Rev Samuel Billy Kyles passed away April 2016) Back in 2000 I went to the Deep South of The United States. I was there to film a documentary about the way the slaves of the Southern …
Holy Week took me a bit by surprise this year. It was only when someone mentioned it over Sunday lunch last week that we realised it was Palm Sunday. That’s the trouble with Easter. It’s not like Christmas when you have a fixed date every year. Easter really is a moveable feast. The formula gets …
I think we all agree that Wales is the best place in the world to live. So if the recent news that Mumbles is the best place to live in Wales is true, then Mumbles is actually the best place to live in the world! Early morning Mumbles I suppose we all knew that Swansea …
This week I was told the story about the 3 bricklayers. They were all pretty much doing the same thing with bricks and mortar. When asked what he was doing the first bricklayer looked at the person asking questions as if they were daft. ‘Well, isn’t it obvious, I’m laying bricks’ said the bricklayer and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
