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

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

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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THE TROUBLE WITH POLITICAL JOKES IS…THEY SOMETIMES GET ELECTED!
People often ask me (as someone who’s acquainted with comedy) what, as Doddy put it, ‘exercises my chuckle muscles’.
Many comedians do. Billy Connolly for one. While other very successful laughter-makers you might think are hilarious,

THE countdown is well and truly on for St David’s Day on March 1 and a long weekend of annual celebration concerts.
This time around, we are going to face plenty of choices as there are three west Wales concerts on the schedule at Carmarthenshire

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