THE BANK TILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!
I was queuing in my bank, waiting to deposit my winnings from the one-armed bandit in my local pub.
For those of you who don’t know, he’s a Brazilian named Pedro Gonzales and (as he’s
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The latest Phil Evans column – February 14
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South Wales Evening Post column, February 9, 2024
THE King himself would have been shocked at the number of words and newsprint used to pay tribute to a wonderful life.
The reality is that every word, every photo and video clip is deserved praise for one of our greatest fly-halves.
As a
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The latest Phil Evans column – February 07
UNCLE CLEDWYN – THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE I KNOW.
“The Book Of Heroic Failures” by Stephen Pile was published in 1979 and became a No1 Best Seller.
I only read the first few pages because the bloke thumbing through a copy in WH Smith’s got
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South Wales Evening Post column, February 2, 2024
IT’S a sad confession, but my schoolteachers will remember that I was never any good at maths.
Arithmetic was always agony, geometry was grim, algebra always left me anxious – and trigonometry was simply terrible!
The sum total of my mathematical misery is something
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The latest Phil Evans column – January 31
FED UP WITH THE WEATHER? BLAME NAMING STORMS!
The year 2024 barely started when we were battered by storm after storm – and according to those highly paid and sometimes highly irritating weather forecasters, in-between the storms, we’ve had heavy rain and wind.
Err .
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South Wales Evening Post column, January 26, 2024
JUST checking, but did I ever tell you the story of the B Hag?
No? Well, make yourself comfortable and grab a cup of tea because here goes . . .
What’s a B Hag? Well, don’t go down the road of imagining a