The Witch of Talog
Strictly speaking, the Witch of Talog inhabits the world just outside Pembrokeshire, but she is known throughout Wales and beyond for her healing and her wisdom. “That’s the meaning of witch,” Allison Beldon-Smith tells...
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Agri Academy Junior Programme
Are you aged between 16 and 19 and interested in developing a career in the food, farming or land management industry? If so, applications are being invited for the 2020 Agri Academy Junior Programme, a Farming...
Tim Wickenden on writing Angel Avenger: A Max Becker Thriller
I’d been planning a novel for several years, a family saga spanning the 20th century, with a male, gay couple at its centre: one sent off to Hong Kong in disgrace, the other forced...
Wild Word Surfing with Deb Winter
I don’t want to offend anyone but I have been thinking about the day I spent with the biggest bunch of liars I have ever encountered, all thanks to Deb Winter and her Wild...
Homelessness: A Pembrokeshire Crisis
I first met Amanda Evans, founder of Homeless Pembrokeshire, about two years ago. She told us then that she had been motivated to work with those who are homeless because she had been personally...
The Heart of Transformation
I met Jo Di Francesco quite by chance recently at a friend’s house. In conversation, she told me a little about her experience of living with cancer and her work to transform her own...
Carole King: Bookbinder, Painter and Printer
Born in Chelmsford, Essex, artist Carole King grew up in a creative family, encouraged by parents who were keen model-makers. She initially trained as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge, and taught in various...
The Pembrokeshire Settlers
I fell in love with Pembrokeshire several years ago – and I’m not the only one to do so. There are many incomers who find the lure of south-west Wales irresistible. I wondered if...
Navigators Find Their Way To Fishguard
Navigators is recently new to the United Kingdom. It came across the pond from America, hailed as a modern version of Scouting and Guiding, it follows no religious or political path. Instead it is an...
Wales to ban physical punishment of children
The Senedd/Assembly has voted to end any physical punishment of children in Wales. Members voted 36 to14 to approve the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. The Bill had been led...
