Cardiff
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Memories of sitting A levels during the Falklands war
My son Owen is in the middle of his A level exams, which has brought back…
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Remembering Jim Callaghan: an underrated PM
James Callaghan, who died 20 years ago this week, might have been Britain’s most forgotten postwar…
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Fifty years ago: second election in a year
Fifty years ago today, I broke the light in the loft of our Cardiff home. I…
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The end of coal power in Britain
The coal age in Britain is over. The country’s last coal-powered power station closed yesterday, marking…
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Cardiff, Wales, Monmouthshire and England
Today’s Daily Telegraph includes a letter from a Cardiff reader Barrie Cooper complaining that BT insists on…
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We love M&S Culverhouse Cross
We’ve loved Marks & Spencer’s Culverhouse Cross store in Cardiff for a long time. It has…
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Cardiff’s Queen Street BHS to close
I felt nostalgic tonight when I read that Cardiff’s main BHS store in Queen Street is…
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Remembering Cardiff’s Empire Pool
We took Owen swimming at Cardiff’s International Pool today. He loved it, and so did we.…
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Maps: icon to icons
Last month, Apple came under fire for the poor quality of its new Apple Maps app…
