Why you shouldn’t believe everything you hear about Wales
I really laughed when I saw this for the first, second and third time!
I really laughed when I saw this for the first, second and third time!
In recent months we have all seen the heroic efforts of the NHS and marvelled at the way they have dealt with the challenge of Covid-19. But behind the scenes, there has been a number of other changes that may have gone unnoticed unless they, of course, touched you personally. And I was impressed to…
I was dragged into the middle of Cardiff’s shopping centre last night for the first time in many months. Like many men of my age, I hate shopping, especially the way that some people do it. For me it’s all about knowing what you want and going out to buy it at around 9.30 on…
“Well Good Morning Sir, and how are you today?” was pretty much the standard greeting from all the hotel staff during my stay in Boston and they said it in a way that made me think that they meant it. And how that contrasts with the perfunctory British greeting of “Morning”, well that is if you…
My earlier post about universal broadband attracted more comments than anything I’ve written before, so that must make it a trending topic here! Anyway: today’s Western Mail talks about how Wales is being left behind in the broadband roll out plan. But they let themselves down in their leader article when confusing the need for…
Great hype yesterday that the opium crop production was down 30% in Afghanistan this year (the spinners has spun out the fact that it is still higher than it was 5 years ago). The implicit link was that our military efforts are stopping the production of drugs, reducing the income to the Taleban and therefore…
I’m waiting in a coffee shop whilst my car gets its MOT done. By “waiting” I really mean “having breakfast” and coffee. It’s a nice, clean, recently opened little place with a reasonable breakfast too. But it doesn’t have many customers, 3 in fact in the hour I’ve been here and I think I know…
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