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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

I’d woken up at around 2am. I reached for my phone, pressed the button and started to drift. I must have been half asleep again when I found myself sitting bolt upright. I thought I had just heard Helena Bonham Carter announce that Agent Garbo’s network of German spies in Britain included an Indian Poet based in Swansea!!!

As with many words context is everything. If I was to say the word ‘Cabaret’, here in South Wales you might get the image of an old Workingman’s Club. ‘Crazy Coqs, Cabaret & Bar’ in the heart of London’s West End is nothing like that.

Someone asked me this week what I did for a living…Ah, I saidm that’s difficult to answer because I have a Portfolio Career.

It was a joy to be part of ‘The Passion’ Revival 2024 and I’m sure there’s plenty more to come from Adrian Snell. Now all I need to do is brush up on my Dutch and I’ll be flying too.

In 2005 a band stepped out at the Welfare Hall in Ystradgynlais to an audience of 45. On Sunday they will walk onstage at the Wales Millennium Centre to a sold out, 1800, capacity audience. So how did it happen?

This week has given me lots of time for reflection, and how much it has changed over the years. A mixture of memories including rock star limousines, touring the country in a transit van and reality of my life now attending Easter bonnet parades.

Derby Day…If Swansea win I will be elated and next week will be wonderful. If we lose I will go into a darken room for a few hours. Maybe I’d take a draw right now!

This week I met a Cyber Hacker who had once hacked into a Nuclear Weapons facility. These days he advises on how to protect ourselves online and he definitely made me think.

Kathryn is one of my heroes. Nothing and I mean nothing will stand in her way. It has made me realise that so much that holds me back isn’t physical, its mental.