Plans are well under way for a plethora of patriotic street and garden parties as Britain and the Commonwealth prepare to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. THE… Read More »The British Monarchy… still puzzling people after all these years
Spring is definitely here – and the proof is all around. I snapped this mother and her foal near our house this morning. I’m no… Read More »What foal would disagree? This baby budget horse is the cutest
THEY can interrupt a tense moment in a film, drive stage actors to distraction and set teachers’ teeth on edge. Still, more and more people seem to think it’s okay to leave their mobile phone ringtones on when they’ve been asked not to.IT was a Monday morning.
Like a lot of people out there, I’m keen on maintaining work-life balance. I believe a part of that is doing active, healthy things, like going for walks and heading to the gym every once in a while. It clears your head and puts you in a more positive mind-frame.
So last Monday I found myself lying on a mat at the LC2 in Swansea, feeling a zen-like calm after a yoga session. We had just done 45 minutes of stretches and I was starting to feel ready to take on the week ahead.
One of Marwell Wildlife Park's okapis. Picture by David Connop Price.
BECAUSE of their shyness, okapis are not necessarily a zoo favourite, but I became enamoured with them from the moment I set eyes on one – at London Zoo.
I was accompanying my sister, Kim, on one of her regular trips to London Zoo with the boys she was looking after at the time. We’d gone to the Into Africa exhibit where towering giraffes, beautiful zebras and strange-looking tapirs are housed.
Then we came across an enclosure which I’d not been to before.
Read More »It was love at first sight when I saw my first okapi
AS a modern journalist, I have been trained to have a short attention span. Twitter has taken that to a whole new level. It’s a self-styled “micro-blogging” platform and lets you share the interesting things going on around you in 140 characters in an instant.
But I have been thinking seriously about trying to write something more substantial than a tweet or a few paragraphs of a blog.
THERE has been a flurry of St David’s Day celebrations across Wales this week.
Although most celebrations were on March 1 – the patron saint of Wales’s dedicated day in the calendar – many more have continued throughout the week.
CONSIDER this: The first rioters from Vancouver’s Stanley Cup disorder are only beginning to hear what they will face as punishment. Ryan Dickinson, from Surrey, B.C., was the first to be sentenced – eight months after the riots.
He was given a 16-month jail sentence for his part in the riots, which saw him, among other things, throwing a newspaper box at a car.
But some people are speculating that many of the other convicted rioters will get off lightly.
The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, was filmed in and around Smithers, northern BC, Canada. The community got together for a uniquely northern BC premiere. Wish… Read More »The Grey premiere at Smithers’ Roi Theatre