Backburner

“Swansea gets tallest building – pic” screamed the local paper hoardings a couple of lunchtimes ago. Exciting news this, I thought. I work in an area of Swansea that’s currently being redeveloped, so it looked quite likely that soon I could be working next to the tallest building in Wales, at least, and possibly even in the whole of the UK. And what’s more, the Evening Post had a “pic” of it. Woo.

So I read the front page and find that it was indeed as claimed. There’s a building to be built that’ll be taller than any other … Continue Reading

I seem to have an impressive track record in this weblog of going to festivals and completely neglecting to write about them (two Cropredys and one Bromyard so far), so I’m determined to break that duck with Greenbelt.

I first learnt about the festival in the early ’90s, and being a non-Greenbelt goer of that era, I knew about it through its bad publicity – the headlines that accompanied its “white witch” speaker, the headlines that accompanied the Nine O’Clock Service leading worship, the headlines that accompanied its financial crises. So I think what I was expecting … Continue Reading