Not been a greatly exciting time really and maybe that is why I been unable to find anything to write about, my days tend to follow the same routine. There is however a continental market in Carmarthen this weekend and I did take a quick look around this afternoon at the various stalls selling French breads, cakes and other things that look so good they must be bad for you.

The one thing that puzzles me is what is the difference between a continental market and a normal one? Today I saw a stall selling sunglasses and the accent of the stallholder did not sound very continental to me but then again when did Carmarthen ever do anything special. The continental markets I have seen in Swansea have been much better with more than a few stalls that had products that you would expect to find in the markets on the continent. Never the less I will go back tomorrow or Sunday and try some of the foods that they had on offer.

I went for a walk today and went up a road that I must have last walked at least 15 years ago so I suppose it was no surprise that things look so different than I remembered. I remembered the road as being dark with high hedges an massive trees as well as it being a lot longer, I guess back then I was shorter so the hedges would have seemed bigger and I guess things have been done to the road during all those years, and I guess they are correct when they say time does not stand still as I walked I noticed old pathways through fields and hedges that had been created by generations of local children; ones that used as a child getting up to all sorts of adventures. Today these have all become overgrown and consigned to the memories of those children that remember them. Is this down to the fact that children today don’t actually play outside and prefer to sit in from of games consoles or computers instead of going out and exploring the haunted woods or going off on grand adventures?

As a child I really can’t remember staying in when the weather was nice outside then again we only had one television in the house for many years and our games console was the classic “Astro Wars” I think I was about eleven when I had what I thought of as my first computer and that was a ZX Spectrum and a few more years before I got a Sega Megadrive (91/92).I guess today with hundreds of television channels and with many children having their own televisions and games consoles there is little incentive to go out looking for adventure when you can sit in front of a screen and be transported where ever you want to go.

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