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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
