Liz Hinds loves to tell a story; she’s the author of three books and has a regular blog. This month she looks at storytelling and when to stop foraging for blackberries. ‘Don’t eat that blackberry!’ At the shout from me,
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Make the most of your child’s potential in these new and challenging times
With the huge disruption to children’s education this year and continued weeks of learning at home, now might be the time to consider investing in your child’s potential with a private tutor. At the Learning Curve, Mumbles, we provide pupils
Read MoreLiz Barry photographs on canvas
REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO Bay, LIZ BARRY HAS A RANGE OF PRINTED CANVASES AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE. They come in a range of sizes from 12 inches square, up to 36 inches x 24 inches and start at £35 inclusive of vat
Read MorePandemic, Pestilence and Plague
The year 2020 is one that we will never forget, and it will certainly have an entry in future history books! But Covid – 19 isn’t the first virus to have a world-wide devastating effect. In this article I am
Read MoreThe book department
This month we travel to India to find out all about stepwell architecture, go behind the scenes at GCHQ, review two splendid centuries of royal photography, get to grips with Gower haute cuisine, and take a trip back in time
Read MoreWinter round-up
To say that 2020 has been a terrible year for everyone involved with the live performance industry would be a huge understatement. From our leading theatres to local am dram companies, the entire industry was forced to shut down en-masse
Read MoreLangland Lockdown
THIS MONTH’S COLUMN SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT AN AMAZING ROAD TRIP TO SCOTLAND OR EVEN IRELAND IN SEARCH OF CLASSIC WAVES AND FUN TIMES. However, as of writing this, the UK is in the middle of a “Second Wave” of
Read MoreOxwich Point Circular
There seems to be a tendency these days for people of a certain age to turn back the clock and re-visit pastimes they last enjoyed in the full flush of youth. Some energetic, some not so. Why, I wonder? Is
Read MoreFreezing Iceland
With its glacial lakes, volcanic scenery and rugged ice-sculpted landscapes, Iceland is one of the wildest and most remote places on the planet and is literally like nowhere else on earth. Bay’s Nick Smith packs his notebook and cameras and
Read MoreBikepacking, Touring, Wandering Aimlessly… Thoughts, hints and ideas PART II
Kim Jones and his partner Tracey are back this month with the second part of their tips and hints for those that are planning to take a staycation with a bike In recent years there seems to have been a
Read MoreThe Book Department
This month we take a look at the designs of the heyday of the American railroad, find out from one of our best landscape photographers how to photo-graph South Wales, discover the secret mathematics that will give you the edge
Read MoreSeptember Sessions
Classically, September is one of the best months of the year for big clean swells to hit the British Isles. Scotland, Ireland and even Cornwall had pumping solid waves for most of the last month, but I think Wales forgot
Read MoreTrick or Treat
THIS MONTH LIZ REFLECTS ON HER CHILDHOOD LOVE OF FIREWORKS, HER DISLIKE OF HALLOWEEN AND HOW SOUL CAKES SOUND NICER THAN THEY TASTE. I don’t like Halloween. There I’ve said it. I dislike intensely the American-style commercialisation that surrounds it
Read MoreTenet
With everything put on hold in cinemas throughout the UK, Emlyn at long last has a new release to review this month, John David Washington and Robert Pattinson star in director Christopher Nolan’s time-twisting spy thriller Tenet I didn’t particularly
Read MoreHalloween, as we know it today, is very much an American holiday. Grinning pumpkins glare at us from the windows of shops, while children are given free rein to cause a little harmless havoc unless we placate them with a
Read MoreIt’s Good to Talk
Do you remember the 1980s/90s BT television adverts, with Maureen Lipman (right) portraying the Jewish grandmother, Beatie? (BT get it?) Later during the late 90s, the BT adverts starred the late Bob Hoskins, who used the slogan “It’s Good to
Read MorePostcards from Skye
Continuing with her journey through west Scotland, Liz and her partner Gareth travelled to the Isle of Skye, capturing its rugged beauty with her camera Skye is the largest of the islands in the Inner Hebrides, and its history stretches
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