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Written in some attempt to process the awful event… We all watch, dumbstruck, horrified, harrowed, sickened. It’s just before half-time of this third match of the coronavirus-delayed Euro 2020. Denmark against Finland in Copenhagen. Around 4 or 5pm here in the UK on another baking midsummer day. It’s surreal to see a stadium almost full […]
The now UK-wide coronavirus 2021 lockdown feels a world away from last March. Governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England have all done it slightly differently, but after a journey of various changing restrictions over the last few months, we are now in the same place. Here in Wales we have been under “alert […]
In a break from very occasional posts about obscure points on the Cardiff skyline, this post looks at one of its most obvious. The Principality Stadium is the national stadium of Wales and one of Cardiff’s architectural crown jewels. Formerly known as the Millennium Stadium, it is a primary regional venue to major sporting and […]
The weather currently seems like a cruel joke of nature. All week it has been freakishly settled, clear and sunny after weeks of extremely stormy weather wreaking widespread flooding and major damage. Now it is all calming and serene, but everybody is having panic attacks and nobody can go out much. Life is increasingly hard […]
Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh died yesterday, aged 49, five days after suffering a cardiac arrest. He has dominated my thoughts over the last 24 hours – along with football, life and death. Some of those thoughts… If you follow football for most of your life, a false closeness can develop with football people. You […]
Ten years as a freelancer is a milestone worth marking. Employed members of staff might earn some small recognition from bosses and colleagues, but freelancers often just have to slap their own backs. So here is an honest, slightly indulgent account of the last decade. Ten years ago this month I was made redundant from […]
On Saturday evening Cardiff City played their first home match since the disappearance of new club record signing Emiliano Sala and his light aircraft pilot David Ibbotson. There were a number of tributes and an outpouring of emotion from the stands, players and staff, including Cardiff manager Neil Warnock. Since visiting Cardiff City Stadium the […]
On December 19th 2018 I took myself down the motorway for a short but intense day trip of London street photography. It had been a while since I’d visited and my feet had grown itchy for newness and difference. London is a properly big sprawling diverse city which I love, and one where I lived […]
You undergo psychological adjustments when you become a parent. One of the major ones concerns allotments of time, or so it appears to me. That is, how you allot your future time on this planet in your head, and where you are going in life. Mental adjustments as a parent For so long as a […]
My attention was recently drawn away from peripheral points of Cardiff’s skyline and towards the more obvious ones. The latest and arguably most glaring addition to Cardiff’s ever-changing city centre skyline is yet another tower of student accommodation. A new 24-storey effort on Charles Street will eventually be home for 463 students, while even taller […]