Articles in Category : Lifestyle & Leisure

Emlyn’s film choice for February is a love story – and, as is so often the case to quote the Bard, the course of true love never did run smooth. If this doesn’t make it to mainstream cinema in Swansea,

As the temperature drops, excitement rises ‘cos you know that you’re going to be surfing plenty over the next few months.   You may have to don a bit more rubber and suffer a bit of what the elements throw

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker £20.00) The mighty Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami enriches his narrative with a strong infusion of western cultural allusions in every book. In his foreword to an early work, Wind Pinball (reviewed in Bay

It’s not every day that a work of art by arguably the most famous living artist in the world pops up in your hometown. But that’s exactly what happened in Port Talbot when the anonymous street artist Banksy decided to

Here it is, the second part of the Source of the Tawe walk started by Ian in our last winter issue. He originally thought it would be a 3 Part walk but after careful consideration, he thinks it might be

When we were working out the schedule for Nick’s articles last year, it was decided that we would publish his travels in Sulawesi in the New Year. Shortly after our meeting, the island was to suffer catastrophic damage following an

This month Liz ponders the subject of time. As we get older it certainly seems to pass more quickly – but maybe that is all relative to our age. A year to an eight year-old is one eighth of their

Firstly, I would like to wish all the readers a Happy New Year. I don’t know if it’s still acceptable to say but this is the first time I’m speaking to you all in 2019, so I’m gonna roll with

SPANISH FLU November 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent ending the First World War, however the world was still at war. The ‘enemy’ didn’t need to use modern warfare to claim its victims, this enemy was the