Archive for 24 Hydref 2007

I took a friend to St Davids in Pembrokeshire yesterday. Britain’s smallest city, but with a wow! cathedral set with a backdrop of farms and fields and only a stone’s throw from the craggy Pembrokeshire coastline. A couple of miles beyond the hill in the distance is the sea. Click on the images for larger ones. If you would like to use any of the photos (also available high resolution for printing), please contact me for terms and conditions.

Update 27th February 2008

Took another trip to St Davids today on a blissfully clear and warm day to update my photo collection. The cathedral looked spectacular. They must mow the grass at least weekly as every time I’m here it looks beautifully manicured. With only 3 days to go to St David’s Day on March 1st (The Patron Saint of Wales), there is an extra splash of colour with house windows being decorated with flags and daffodils and leeks.
Continue reading Wow! St Davids Cathedral Pembrokeshire

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Adam Price MP

Politicians never lie. They use “terminological inexactitudes” or are “economical with the truth” and might even “seek to to mislead”, but lying they don’t, because it is not allowed in Parliament for one politician to call another a liar . The public, however are not constrained by such conventions. They soon become aware that they have been grossly misled or told deliberate half truths (or double-truths if you are an accountant like PM Gordon Brown) and they then brand all Politicians as “liars” – which they are not. The small number of lying politicians bring the whole profession into disrepute. Most Cabinet Ministers it seems have trained as lawyers, so their command of language seems to equip them perfectly for the techniques of putting an unhealthy gloss on the the actuality.
Continue reading At last, The Misrepresentation of the People Act

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Japanese knotweed in the river

When I moved to Cwm Morgan 12 years ago I was ignorant in the ways of Japanese Knotweed. Once I found out more about the luxuriant growth sprouting tall from 3 metres of our earth and stone boundary I realized that it was something I wanted to remove. I tried “Roundup” weed killer and come November the green went brown and died back. Result! I thought – wrongly. The following summer it was back again with avengeance. Well not so much back, as never having gone – I didn’t realize that the dying back was what all healthy Knotweed does over the winter.
Continue reading The persistence of Japanese Knotweed

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