Every year I like to post an entry about St Dwynwen’s – the Welsh patron saint of friendship and love. January the 25th is the feast day of Saint Dwynwen the Welsh equivalent of the more popular St Valentine.
A few years ago you would not hear much about St Dwynwen’s Day in Wales with [...]

Well with the rain the remaining snow on the ground has vanished and I never got to use the bad weather as an excuse not to go into work. Some people did and as always a few people took the p#ss calling into say they were not able to make the journey as the road [...]

… and what a cold start to the year, I was going home at 3AM this morning and it was minus 5 – hopefully 2010 will be a good year for you all.
I spent most of yesterday sorting out my finances in preparation for 2010 and am hoping that this year I will be [...]

As we approach the last few hours of 2009 I have been busily preparing for the new year and have noticed quite a few of my Facebook friends leaving status updates saying how bad 2009 has been and how they are looking forward to a new year. I am sure that for many people 2009 [...]

UPDATED POST 02/01/2010
Been a few weeks since my last entry (no surprise there), got loads of excuses but all have been used before. Well thought I would post an entry but discover that my version of Wordpress is out of date so I set about updating it and only when I get to the [...]

Again been pretty busy but not really doing a great deal, I was surprised to discover that one of my photos had been published in the local newspaper (I can cross that off the list) and the £10 book token has arrived. I checked and I actually submitted the photo back in June so guessing [...]

When you are shopping on a limited budget you are certainly more aware of the rising cost of food. This has to be one of the first months in a very long time that I have had to use my money carefully after paying out for work on the car I realised that if I [...]