YOU’RE going to have to trust me on this one – it won’t be bad luck if you read this column today . . . honest . . . promise . . . cross my heart.
Yes, it’s Friday the 13th (only the second Friday

THERE was a time when I was regarded as something of a ‘stickler’ for dress codes.
In the days when I sat in the editor’s chair, it was a case of woe betide any male trainee reporter who turned up for work without a jacket

YES, folks, it’s that time of year again – Pantomime season!
One of the most eagerly-anticipated pantomimes in west Wales is the show staged by Theatrau Sir Gâr / Carmarthenshire Theatres at The Lyric in Carmarthen.
This year, it is the turn of Beauty and

THE annual Llanelli Rotary Club Young Musician of the Year competition saw singers and instrumentalists battle it out at Greenfield Chapel in the town centre.
The competition was the first stage in a national competition to find the Young Musician of the Year in both

TIME was when I was young enough (and twp enough!) to talk about making a ‘fox pass’.
As a young cub reporter, I even committed the cardinal sin of scribbling ‘fox pass’ in a news story.
My editor at the time stopped short of a

A WISE man once declared, “You can live to be a 100 if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a 100.”
OK, I’ll pause there, as it wasn’t a very wise man. It was film director Woody Allen