Martin Veale - Steel and Survival

Parking Notes This is how not to park. The moron manages to take up 4 spaces with his idiot-mobile. Pic taken at Midway Retail Park in P...

Nature Notes   A few wonderful brushes with nature during our week away in west Wales. First, the ritual of sitting on the jetty at N...

Ava's Diary Nice week in Tresaith. It was sunny almost all week, so I spent most of it on the beach. Sandcastle-building, jumping wave...

Concert Notes Bruuuuce! The Boss, Bruce Springsteen himself came to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Tuesday. Getting old, I opted f...

Blog Notes By popular demand, it's back. I can't guarantee a weekly update, but I'll have something to say about rugby...

The only good thing about being off work with tonsillitis is that The Ashes is on. My commentators XI... Boycott and Atherton to open Gower,...

Now, this is how to write a restaurant review. Kudos to Pete Wells of the New York Times for applying to a well-deserved show to the ...

World's worst directions A top blog here. This is what the tinterweb is for. Pointless but very funny takes on the useless and over...

MTV. How do they manage to fill 100 music TV channels with just 6 songs. At any time of the day or night you surf up and down the music chan...

Watching the baseball wildcard game between St Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves. Always thought that adding a second wildcard to eac...

The world needs to stop for a moment.  I reckon I've actually spent three full days at my normal office in the past month. As well as ...

Just a few weeks to go before the NFL comes to Britain. Yep, I've got my ticket for the New England Patriots game "at" the S...

Top result last Saturday. Ebbw Vale beat Newbridge 37-7. It was a poor effort from Newbridge, the only team to do the double on Ebbw last ...

Told my first joke today. Why did the cow cross the road? To get to the moo-vies.

Wasn't at last weekend's Ebbw Vale game, as the weather was too good to turn down a last fling of summer down in sunny West Wales....