Since my last post the Olympic Torch has passed through Carmarthen on its tour around the United Kingdom. Have to admit I was at the start point when it came to Carmarthen as the Community Council had put up a banner and bunting to welcome the flame.

It was a lovely morning but for all the build up for it to be over so quickly was a little disappointing add to that the fact that no one seemed to officially know where the relay was going to start so I was unable to get any good photos.

As I was off work due to annual leave I decided to venture once more up to the highest point in England and Wales – Mount Snowdon. After spending my birthday last year walking up and down that mountain I thought I would return, I did however cheat and took the train to the summit!!

Using the train to get to the summit meant that I had a limited time frame at the summit to take photos but with all the people racing to the highest point for photos and to admire the view. I was lucky that it was clear blue skies on the summit for the photos that I took.

The summit was a little busier due to the fact the BBC were doing a live report from the summit as the Olympic Flame had been taken to the summit by Sir Chris Bonington, honestly I have not been following the Olympic Flame around the country.

Spent the night in Caernarfon and enjoyed the castle the next day before making the return journey home – stopping en route at Beddgelert a legend I have known for years but have never had he opportunity to visit the grave.

Yes I was lucky enough to be able to hold one of the Olympic Torches when I visited Snowdon and even got my photo taken.

All that took place before my 34th birthday on the 3rd June, which was spent at a slower speed watching Prometheus at the cinema – have to admit that as you would expect the special effects were fantastic but I just found the film somewhat lacking.

It has been a few weeks since my last entry and I suppose a fair amount has happened in that time.

I am now on the Llangunnor Community Council, I had last attempted to get on the council back in December of 2001 and back then I had been unsuccessful after it came down to an election – the site I had created back then has long gone but I have found a few of the entries from back then and I had lost the election by only 32 votes.

I suppose after that I thought why bother if people who have known me and my family for years cannot be bothered to come out and vote why should I bother. However since then I have attempted to involve myself in the community.

This time around all the council had to leave and out of 13 positions only 12 people put in to sit on the council – so no election was needed.

Have already been to my first meeting and it was a little awkward trying to fit in with a group that is already established but on the whole everyone has been friendly and welcoming.

I had an email a few weeks ago (back in February) informing me that one of the fanlists I had signed up to had moved to a different address, so with a little spare time I figured I had better update the link before it got forgotten about.

While I was doing this I also checked the other links I had on the fanlistings page and needless to say there was quite a bit of clearing up to do – amazed to discover that some of the fanlists I had joined simply no longer exist. Those dead links were removed and those that had changed were updated. It came as no surprise that some of these sites had moved over two years ago so shows how little interest they have in updating members or of me visiting.

Saying that I run two fanlistings myself both for television shows, they being for the original CSI and the long cancelled Quantum Leap both were taken over by others who had simply lost interest or lacked the time to maintain them. Combined both these sites have over 6000 members but if I decided to delete both these sites I doubt anyone would notice as over the past few months the numbers of people joining have dwindled which is to be expected with fans of a show and with the much more widely used social websites that are available today the programme makers can very easily set up and maintain a presence online that can be interactive for fans. (An example can be see at CSI on Facebook)

I really do need to do some updating on the site!!