Monthly Archives: August 2013

Saturday, 31st August, 2013.

That’s The Way The Money Goes      Upwards of two-thousand A & E patients had to hang around in Welsh hospitals during the past year.   The figures I saw calculated that an average of thirty-nine patients had to hang around … Continue reading

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Saturday, 24th August, 2013.

Getting Back To Basics      The basics I mean are those of simple, socialist principles.   Those principles were once the basis of the now-seemingly-defunct Working Class Movement.     The foremost of those principles was “From each according to … Continue reading

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Saturday, 17th August, 2013.

Home Sweet Home?      The cost of buying a house in Wales has gone up by 4%.   That, apparently, is good news.   But for whom? The financial mess is still not over for the average working-person.   And the rise in … Continue reading

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Saturday, 10th August, 2013.

An Appropriate Name      Dracaena Draco.   Not a phrase accidentally used by a Welsh-learner!   It’s the botanical appellation of the Dragon Tree. There’s one flourishing here in Wales:  at Llanarthe’s Great Glasshouse over by Carmarthen. Flourishing and flowering, too.   It … Continue reading

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Saturday, 3rd August, 2013.

Success!      Every Member of Plaid Cymru will have been overwhelmed by the amount of letters and e-mails the party has been sending out in the lead-up to the Assembly by-election up there in Ynys Mon/Anglesey.      And the hard … Continue reading

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