Saturday, April 07, 2007

Humph!

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There comes a time when your city doesn’t seem your own any more. The redevelopment of the centre of the city of Cardiff is making it at the...
Friday, April 06, 2007

Ah, youth!

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You know you have family staying with you when not only do you have to use the ‘value’ set of cutlery that you bought as a stop gap measure,...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

It's what's inside that counts!

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We are all in denial about something. Best exemplified by the memorable detail of a half remembered story (or was it fact?) when some wag wr...
Monday, April 02, 2007

Just for Old Times!

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For those of you of a younger generation, the name Enoch Powell will conjure up a whole series of memories, thoughts and emotions. Forget hi...
Sunday, April 01, 2007

O Brave New World!

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I feel like writing to The Times. It’s one of those occasions when a hastily penned missive to The Thunderer (in the Old Days before it was...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Follow the money!

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Another visit to Beirut or Cardiff City Centre. The destruction continues with machines crawling and digging and evacuating. A mass of acti...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Another dream gone!

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Government is ineffective. It’s official. Today gave me proof. It is a chastening thing to find out that the people who constantly remind us...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

So far and yet so near

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There is, they say, no place like home; or near home. I once drove to Amsterdam (the boat helped), drove around Holland and drove back to Ca...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

A little light is needed!

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How satisfying it is to use words as weapons! With the obscenity of a director in banking receiving an annual bonus of £22m it is easy to fe...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Contemplate the smaller things

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It is a sad statement of my present predicament that I can get genuinely excited the marketing of a new toilet cleanser by Harpic. I felt a ...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

How are the mighty fallen!

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Seduction. An interesting word, concept and soundscape. It starts with the sibilance of the snake, meanders through long vowels and ends wit...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Too little, too late and way too cheap!

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After telephone calls too numerous to calculate; the expenditure of amounts of nervous energy too vast to quantify; and fury whose bounds ca...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Bond is born (again)

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Sometimes one’s value system takes a considerable shock. One has to rally one’s reserves of moral experience to withstand the assault to on...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

The wonder of waste!

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“We nursery nurses have been put in the same band as the dustbin men.” Listening to the radio and a report about low pay and the equalizati...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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Some people find hoovering comforting; some people delight in ironing; others are only happy when they are filing. All of these people are, ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Appearances can be deceptive

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“Braggadocious!” was the word emblazoned across the crotch of P Diddy as, sunglasses reflecting the flash of a camera and clutching what loo...