Author: gbadmin

We went up to Chester to stay with our daughter Laura and her  family last weekend. It was lovely to see them all and of course to be looked  after so well.  It was time to re-acquaint myself with our two grandsons. Mr Will is 3 and has  a long-standing obsession with Disney’s Cars. Lightning…

A large Victorian Cemetery can be so daunting when you are looking for a specific headstone and the cemetery stretches out before you. It can be difficult enough in an overgrown country churchyard where the words upon the stones have melted in the rain. In a municipal cemetery it can appear to be an impossible…

I went to the new Reference Library in Swansea to do a bit of research. It is situated in the Civic Centre and it is very smart indeed. Comfortable and bright. But it wasn’t the modern developments that drew me there, smart as they are. Rather it was the past, as always. The contemporary newspapers…

A morbid interest? 08 January 2009   So here we are back in school. The cold icy  weather still doesn’t stop some kids turning up in school without a coat and  they huddle together for warmth like penguins. They are of course pleased to be  back in school. Like most of the teachers they are…