Last year, my wife and I mourned the death of two family members. Libby’s grandmother (Grandma) died in July and my grandfather (Tadcu) died in November. It really is a terrible shock when you receive that phone call. It pains that you cannot say a goodbye or tell them how...

When you think about it, the human brain is extraordinary. Did you know the brain contains 86 billion nerve cells and the latest research shows that the brain’s memory capacity is a quadrillion bytes. Astoundingly, that is the same amount needed to store the entire internet. The brain is capable...

I remember having an Easter Egg hunt one Good Friday as a child in Primary School. The child with the most cut-out paper eggs at the end would win the grand prize of a real chocolate Easter Egg. The children would scatter like mad around the yard searching for these...

The first thing I do in the morning is I head to the bathroom. Among other things, I look in the mirror to see the destruction and devastation that 8 hours of sleep has brought upon my face. It’s never a good sight. I have Panda eyes, Rooster hair, and...

It’s a new year…are you happy? I like entering into a new year. I warmly welcome new beginnings. I really enjoy starting again and love setting goals and targets. A new beginning provides an opportunity to change, to start over, or to re-commit to something. I’m not alone in feeling...

Every summer my wife and I have some time off to go and visit our families in West Wales. My Mother lives in Llanelli and there’s a really nice harbour nearby in Burry Port and we love going there to watch the sunsets. One evening as we stood on the...

Do you remember the 90’s McCain Chips advert, when on the school bus a little girl asks her younger sister Sophie which she prefers, Daddy or chips? She considered the question all day, and concluded in the evening that she prefers chips after her father very cheekily plucked a chip...