Weather forecast for Llanelli-on-sea today is ‘more than half tidy, well up to three-quarters tidy’.

McMillan Morning Notes (early walk) –
The pipes, the pipes they are a-calling . . . for Remembrance.

Anyone for a game of upside down wall bingo?

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News of the latest Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) lecture coming up in Llanelli next week.
The November lecture is on Thursday, November 16, at 7 for 7.30pm in the Selwyn Samuel Centre.
The lecture will be on Climate Change and Human Sustainability and will be

Wales caps Tom Rogers, Ryan Elias and Taine Plumtree return to the Scarlets starting XV for Saturday’s BKT United Rugby Championship round four encounter with Emirates Lions at Parc y Scarlets (17:15 S4C).
Tight-head prop Harri O’Connor, who came off the bench against the

Weather forecast for Llanelli-on-sea today is ‘Springtime in November – definitely beach walk’.

McMillan Morning Notes (early walk) –
Tales of the tides, Gower’s best sides.

Please site on me, the daisy bench is calling.

Sea defences? Not so much a Maginot

This website is now back in action after something of a lull over the summer.
It is in need of some TLC, so bear with while I get categories, tags and pages reorganised – and fill in the gaps for the missing bits!.
But

DO you really want to know what gets up my nose?
It’s got five letters, starts with a V and isn’t a Vicks Inhaler!
The answer is, of course, Vapes.
The craze for vaping not only gets up my nose; it gets down my

A book exploring the natural phenomenon of darkness and the way that it fires our imagination has been published by an Aberystwyth University academic today.
The work of creative writing lecturer and critically acclaimed author Dr Jacqueline Yallop, ‘Into the Dark: What darkness

Two Storm Wood. Hardback by Philip Gray (Author)

As the cover notes read . . . uncover an unsettling mystery of World War One in The Times Thriller of the Year. If you love history – and war history, in

Weather forecast for Llanelli-on-sea today is ‘Rain and hail, hard hat needed’.

McMillan Morning Notes (early walk) –
Buoy oh boy, things are unravelling.

Sailboats, trains and canal barges, miniature worlds on a wall.

Bouncing white balls, not rugby-shaped, just hard

Comedian Phil Evans is from Ammanford. He is known as the man who puts the ‘cwtsh’ into comedy. This column appears in the South Wales Evening Post, Carmarthen Journal and Llanelli Star. Website – www.philevans.co.uk

GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE? DON’T BANK ON IT!
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IT’S time to get in the Christmas spirit as choirs and singers announce their festive concert dates.
The popular Lleisiau’r Cwm ladies choir will be centre stage on December 17 for a special evening in Garnant.
Bethel Chapel will be the venue. The concert starts

Weather forecast for Llanelli-on-sea today is ’50/50 wet/dry’.

McMillan Morning Notes (early walk) –
Chimney pots and landmarks – we can spot what’s brewing!

What’s the fuss about 20mph? It’s 10 on the Carmarthenshire Tramway Railway path.

Green food bins lined

The impact of the conflict in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey will be the focus of new research at Aberystwyth University following the awarding of a prestigious fellowship.
Over the next two years, Dr Dilan Okcuoglu will study state-building and control in the war-torn region

Weather forecast for Llanelli-on-sea today is ‘shades and walking boots, extra spring in step’.

McMillan Morning Notes (early walk) –
Temporary traffic lights make for a pedestrian traffic jam.
Rocket sticks on the pavement are the legacy of fireworks – money up in smoke!

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Weather forecast for Llanelli-on-sea today is ‘very tidy, definitely walking boots’.

McMillan Morning Notes (early walk) –
Brave garden daisies put the spring in November.
Blue and red child’s scooter at the roadside – just missing a child owner.
Emerald green rugby pitch just