Poetry

Today is National Poetry Day 2025. As a fervent poetry-lover, it seems remiss to me that poetry should be celebrated in this way on only one day of the year. I’d definitely be up for National Poetry Week, or even Month, if we have to limit it at all. I’ve loved poetry since I was … More Poetry

Fun in the snow!

It can’t have escaped your notice… that pretty, but rather inconvenient ‘white stuff’ that arrived at our Cardiff doorstep last week… I’m not a great fan of snow, I’ll be honest. I am still traumatised by childhood skiing holidays (more like torture than fun), have never enjoyed being confined to barracks by the weather, and … More Fun in the snow!

5. Go to the Bingo

For some years now I have had an inexplicable desire to go to the Bingo. I don’t gamble much in other ways – the odd lottery ticket and a couple of ‘close-but-not-quite’ flutters on the Grand National. But something about dibbing (dabbing?) those numbers was calling me… One of the things that had held me back from … More 5. Go to the Bingo