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South Wales Evening Post column, March 22, 2024

Posted By RobertLloyd58

NOW, as regular readers will be well aware, I am not usually one to hold a grudge.
But bitter resentment ferments quite nicely over the course of 26-plus years and today is as good a day as any to pop the cork on a vintage

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South Wales Evening Post column, March 15, 2024

Posted By RobertLloyd58

IN more than 47 years as a hack journalist, I’ve probably dropped more Clangers than a butter-fingered and very nervous BBC animation technician.
Readers of a more junior age will have to look up Google to understand the sentence above – and to find out

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South Wales Evening Post column, March 08, 2024

Posted By RobertLloyd58

IT was the American writer Mark Twain who once remarked, “There is no such thing as an ordinary life.”
This is an universal truth which you will all learn to recognise when you get to my stage of life – a period when diary entries

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South Wales Evening Post column, March 01, 2024

Posted By RobertLloyd58

IT was an evening with more surprises than a primetime Cilla Black TV show.
There were a ‘lorra, lorra laughs’ and a few tears along the way.
The surprise elements weren’t obvious when people arrived for Llanelli Rotary Club’s annual St David’s Day dinner at

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South Wales Evening Post column, February 23, 2024

Posted By RobertLloyd58

PERHAPS it is a sign of old age? Or perhaps it is it is the unlocking of a new and cherished piece of wisdom?
Maybe, it’s the controversial new 20mph speed limits in Wales, or it could be a rebellion against the mobile phone age?
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South Wales Evening Post column, February 16, 2024

Posted By RobertLloyd58

MY grandfather must have had the gift of looking into the future when he left me a treasured World War Two metal helmet.
He knew the steel ‘Mark II No 2’ Home Guard headwear would come in handy for a journalist willing to suggest radical

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