“TRY and steer clear of religion and politics,” was the advice of my editor when he recklessly gifted me this weekly column.
For the most part, I have tried to heed his wise words, but the influence of Easter can be blamed for straying into

IT’S time to get the running shoes back on for the Carmarthen Mayor’s Fun Run Races on May Day Bank Holiday, Monday, May 6.
Online entries are now open and the whole family can get involved.
The races have been held in Carmarthen every

IT was a wise old chap who once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
But most of us who live in this lovely corner of Wales will also know that you can add two other certainties to Benjamin Franklin’s quote – rain and

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

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

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