Behaving badly
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Gin […]
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Gin […]
‘The lands in this parish are chiefly arable, and in many parts wet and weepy’ Theophilus Jones, A History of the County of Brecknockshire 1809 * A woodcut of the […]
When men were all asleep the snow came flying… Robert Bridges To begin at the beginning… Early on a December morning, a bedroom in the Usk valley: 1st Voice: “Oh […]
The two worst months of the year have come and gone – not that they were that bad here, this time around. We haven’t suffered from too much rain, and […]
A little while ago I was lounging on the sofa minding my own business and half-listening to the evening weather forecast on BBC Wales when I heard the presenter (Behnaz […]
When Lizzie was very young every minor illness (thank God there were no major ones) was accompanied by a little…drama, shall we say. I won’t embarrass her here by regaling […]
We’ve been in a period of what the forecasters call unsettled weather lately. I don’t know why they call it that – several days of rain seems pretty settled to […]
Let’s get it over and done with, then. England have won the Six Nations Rugby championship. Not only did they win the title but they got the Grand Slam – […]
A couple of weeks ago I was complaining about February, wittering on about the weather and what an awful time of year this is, and just look what’s happened…the back […]
So December is finally here and now we can legitimately get into Christmas mode! On Tuesday, the first day of the month, we officially hung up the Advent tree on a door […]