Tag: essays
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On the writing of blogs
This month gwallter is ten years old, and this is his 598th blog. It seems a good time to look back and reflect on his progress so far. When I started in 2013, blogs were still quite fashionable, and I felt some pride in joining a fraternity of online scribblers. Nowadays, you often have the…
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A foxy visitor from Ceredigion
Receiving post through the letterbox doesn’t give the anticipatory thrill it once did. Personal messages are rare. They’re outnumbered by personalised but corporate ones. Today came a special invitation to view a retirement home in another part of Swansea, and the offer of discreet equipment to improve my hearing. Neither of them arrived in response…